Another Dead Canary

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m completely in the tank for Obama. I’ve phone banked for him and I’m heading to Roanoke later this week to work as a volunteer to get the vote out. If you’ve read any of the other entries on this blog, you know that I’m a flaming [...]

I’m not sure why this YouTube clip contrasting WFTV-Orlando anchor Barbara West’s interviews with Joe Biden and John McCain makes me so angry. We’ve grown to expect media bias at the cable networks, whether it’s the unabashed right-wingers at FOX News or the liberals at MSNBC. So maybe it’s a little idealistic to still expect [...]

Here’s the question of the day: How did the entire blogosphere and twitterverse know intuitively that Ashley Todd was some imbalanced attention-seeker almost immediately after the story broke but John McCain, Sarah Palin and their top staff did not? Predictably, the liberal bloggers and tweeters were calling bullshit as soon as they heard Todd’s tale [...]

How can you tell when a blogger is lacking inspiration? He posts a bunch of videos. I couldn’t resist putting this one up because it’s freaking hilarious. We’ve truly entered unchartered waters: The country is about to elect its first black president, the Tampa Bay Rays are in the World Series and Saturday Night Live [...]

Barack Obama was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other day, telling Ellen he might not be able to dance better than his wife, but he was pretty sure he could out dance John McCain. After watching this video, I’d call it a tie. Though I have to admit, I’m not sure Obama has an [...]

The picture above of Elsheba Khan appeared in the New Yorker. It’s the picture that former Secretary of State Colin Powell invoked in this stirring endorsement of Barack Obama: I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, [...]

Can it really be less than two months since the New York Times told the world how political strategist Steve Schmidt had transformed the McCain campaign into “an elbows-out, risk-taking, disciplined machine”? At the time, I remember having a visceral reaction to its description of Schmidt’s “brillilance.” It bothered me that McCain’s surge in the [...]

Old Ed Pulver is surely long dead by now. The fact is, he wasn’t doing so well when I met him, which was 20 years ago when I was a junior at the University of Florida. He walked into my college newsroom one afternoon in his grungy, stained clothes and announced that he wanted to [...]

This was no Battle in Seattle. No Combat in the Capitol. Not even a dust up in D.C. Despite a lot of Internet chatter, the planned late night march aimed at waking up the delegates to the International Monetary Fund looked like a bust by the time I left about 2 a.m. Of course, all [...]

It’s a Saturday and I don’t feel like doing any heavy lifting. Instead, I’m hoping I can make a point with the three video clips below. The first is a piece by the American News Project that explains how Big Oil has borrowed a page out Big Tobacco’s playbook — use junk science and slick [...]