Right-wing pundits — the same sort who have stood resolutely by George W. Bush as he has nearly set the White House on fire these past seven years, the same sort who would have responded to Bush actually slitting a… Continue Reading
Some scuttlebutt floating around the Internets has it that McCain’s win in Florida was the result of a last-minute endorsement by Charlie Crist, Florida’s governor. The juicier rumor was that Crist demanded to be named McCain’s running mate in exchange… Continue Reading
The Florida polls just closed about fifteen minutes ago, and some early voting and absentee ballots have been reported. McCain has about 34% of the vote and Romney has about 33%, and if the early numbers are any indication, a… Continue Reading
I’m really looking forward to The Dark Knight this summer. All the principal photography finished well before Heath Ledger died, so the only problems with production will be if they need to get re-dubs on his voice. The only real… Continue Reading
It may be too early — by about twenty-three hours — to start dissecting what exactly went wrong with the Rudy Giuliani campaign. How did he go from front-runner with an innovative and high-risk, high-reward strategy, to utterly irrelevant, in… Continue Reading
I’m normally often irritated by news coverage of medical studies. Medical studies suggest all sorts of things, most of them contradictory, and they are just studies. They constitute part of the massive project of assembling data used to evaluate various… Continue Reading
In preparation for this week’s poll here on Not A Potted Plant, I’ve readied some pictures of the spouses of the varioius Presidential candidates. Important stuff here: Ann Romney: Michelle Obama: Cindy McCain: Judith Giuliani: Janet Huckabee: Elizabeth Edwards: Bill… Continue Reading
Mike Huckabee has famously lost a bunch of weight. Good for him; I wish I had the kind of willpower he did to resist larger-than-necessary portions of tasty food. So you think he would praise, not criticize, Mitt Romeny for… Continue Reading
There’s been a lot of talk about a truly bizarre Scientology recruitment video made by Tom Cruise about four years ago. (If you watch the video and are confused because you can’t make any sense of what Tom is saying… Continue Reading
Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.