Synaphaï: Gene Gaudette's Blog

Mister War Hero (did you know he was a POW?) has some serious explaining to do. How many of our men in uniformed were left behind, John? (And here I'd been planning to get all snarky over my morning coffee about the Palin-McCain Administration's lie about Alaska producing 20% of the nation's energy [hat tip to Koop]).

Cross-posted to APJ

She holds cable "news" infotainment in about the same contempt as I do.

At digby's must-read Hullabaloo blog, where he more often comments on political issues under the screen name tristero, composer Richard Einhorn informs readers that he has just completed his oratorio The Origin, based on the writings of scientist Charles Darwin; it will premiere next February at SUNY Oswego, with performing participants including Kitka, a remarkable eastern European female choir. This looks to be a première well worth the pilgrimage.

First. go read what Jamison Foser has to say about one of McCain's de facto lead issues, namely complaining about the press…

… then watch Joe Biden bring it. I'm not saying those two links say it all, but together they speak volumes about what we're up against particularly in a the widening field of swing states.

(Crossposted to APJ)

Thanks to some miracle of technological or production failure, a conversation between MSNBC's political director Chuck Todd, conservative columnist and speechwriter Peggy Noonan, and Republican political strategist Mike Murphy (who is, as the kids say, thisclose to the McCain campaign) – a brief exchange which all parties surely assumed was off mike – ended up on the air and, thanks to the miracle of the YouNet, on the Intertubes: