First, on the debate itself ( C-Span video, CNN transcript): I was somewhat suspect at the demand that the audience not react to the debate, thinking that this made it more artificial, though perhaps this prevented the tactic of playing to the crowd with simplistic reactionary rhetoric. Overall however, I found Lehrer to be an able moderator, I ( Read more... )

Les Misbarack - My mother had me watch it with her she was so impressed, and she hadn't even seen Les Miz before. My girlfriend was in a production and enjoyed it even more than I did. Take three and half minutes and watch this, for your own sake. (If it helps pretend its a different candidate's office, that's really not what makes it amazing ( Read more... )

89X presented three of the presidential campaign's musical tributes this morning. I'd thought I'd share:

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And of course, from the professional political songwriter who brought us "The Saddam Stomp", "The Monica Lewinsky Polka" and "I Wanna Be Your Pokeymon" (only South Park saved us from this secret political movement), Pat Garrett, and Lofton ( Read more... )