Archive for November 23rd, 2007
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Midwestern Irony
Some will question the “irony status” of a “YouGoGirl” Hillary trucker hat in Iowa, but if it’s real Midwestern irony you’re after, you’ve got to check out the oeuvre of Leslie Hall of Ames, Iowa — “the Midwest Diva.” She’s like a female Divine and reminds me that the former lead singer from Fluffer, late […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The Campaign is in the Mail
So I was poking around the interwebs with an eye toward writing an item on customizable product sites, such as MyKleenexTissue.com, when the old proverbial lightbulb went off.
What if political partisans started to treat customizable U.S. Postal Service issued photo stamps as more than a chance to put their kids’ pictures on the stamps that […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The Most Liberal?
Sewell Chan over at The New York Times‘ City Room blog takes on the questionable claim in Rudy Giuliani’s recent campaign commercial that New York is “America’s most liberal city,” and concludes that, no, it’s probably not (see: San Francisco, Cambridge, Austin, etc.).
Of course, the claim Giuliani was making was virtually self-negating. If New York […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Big Corn and Big Guts
The Post’s Joel Achenbach has a well-timed post Karo-coma take-out on Big Corn, the crop that ate Iowa — and which many of us were eating, in one form or another, yesterday. Yglesias, meanwhile, is still having fun with his new graph-generating program and came up with this, as a criticism of our farm-subsidy policies: […]
