James Barbour from deep Moscow has tagged me in a new Internet game of One’s Three Inspirational Communicators. The idea originated as (of course) a New Wave PR meme, but is none the worse for that. So at the risk of being earnestly irrelevant as the world’s financial system totters, here goes. What […]
Clinton strategist Mark Penn: I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don’t do that for all four of the candidates, they’re on very dangerous ground. I think […]
"If someone truly understands how to create menace and uncertainty and mistrust, then how to exploit and magnify the presence of these disconcerting elements, the loop can be vicious, a terribly destructive force, virtually unstoppable in causing panic and confusion and — Boyd’s phrase is best — ‘unraveling the competition.’ […]
The piece by PM Gordon Brown in Monitor magazine which gives a positive word to the Obama campaign is here. It has caused a fuss. Bad form for a foreign leader to make remarks of this sort? But listen to this: Labour party sources have suggested may have in fact […]
If you read nothing else this week, read Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin. Firecracker writing plus generous, intelligent insight – and heavy hits landing on all and sundry: It’s heavy weather for Obama fans, as momentum has suddenly shifted to John McCain — that hoary, barnacle-encrusted tub that many Democrats like […]
If you are a Democrat watching uneasily the growing support for McCain/Palin among women – especially Wal-Mart moms – how best to respond? Maybe best to avoid serving up an elderly white man to say that a vote for snappy young Palin is a step backwards for women? Watch Joe Biden’s […]
Christopher Hitchens back in February tried to build the case that Kosovo was never ‘internationally recognised as part of Serbia’: [After WW1] legal instruments agreed between [Yugoslavia and the no-less-new state concept calling itself republican Turkey] recognized Belgrade’s sovereignty over Kosovo, but solely in the sense that they recognized Belgrade as […]
Here is one eloquent US feminist’s analysis of the Palin phenomenon: Make no mistake – the Democratic Party and its nominee have created the powerhouse that is Sarah Palin, and the party’s increased attacks on her (and even on her daughter) reflect that panic. The party has moved from taking the […]
Paleofeminist Gloria Steinem is unimpressed with Sarah Palin: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can’t tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who […]
The world takes another step towards the Internet Cloud as Google launches its new browser Google Chrome. We, the vast mass of mere users, have almost no idea of what is happening to deliver these miracles of networked cleverness. Here (via Charles Johnson) is as simple an explanation as we might hope […]
