Brains, singing along in Russian...

Bush Administration quietly cuts off birth control supplies to African distributors.

( A misplaced 'pro-life' attitude. )

Say it to my face, John!

( Obama challenges McCain on the sleaze. )

Hilzoy asks: Has The Corner gone insane?

( Yes, yes, they have. )

The Mob at a Palin Rally

( A simple question. Blazingly stupid answers )

Kathleen Parker's encounter with the ugly arm of her party has opened her eyes.

( And she says so on TownHall! )

Michelle Malkin hates McCain's new plan!?

( What is the world coming to? )

The lobbyists get to McCain:

( And cost the rest of us more. )

Brad DeLong calls McCain's plan "Worse that I Had Imagined Possible."

( “... even given what I know about John McCain” )

General Petreus, er, complicates things for McCain.

( “You have to sit down with our enemies” )

General Petreus, er, complicates things for right-wing pundits

( “He's exotic, elitist, academic.” )

Dean Reynolds at CBS: I still like McCain. His barbecues were better.

( In the tank, eh? )

First Impressions Matter

Kath & Kim

First impressions matter, and a really bad photograph can absolutely ruin that first impression. Take, for example, the photograph being used to tout a new television show, "Kath & Kim."

Look at that photograph. Look at those chins! Is it just me, or can I be forgiven for thinking that NBC was going to be airing a series about trannies?

Kerry Howley says it much better than I can

Quoted in full. Kerry doesn't have ads, so I don't feel guilty, but you can drop him a line if you feel the need:

There is a massive gap between Obama’s actual rhetoric and the conservative portrayal of him as some sort of naive, starry-eyed internationalist. There is no globalist in this election, naive or otherwise. There is the candidate who insists that foreigners are bloodthirsty killers, and the one who keeps reminding you that foreigners will shutter your factories, poison your children, and destroy your domestic motorcycle industry. Yes, yes, I realize that we aren’t supposed to listen when the Obama campaign depicts economic engagement as un-American. That’s just smoke and mirrors for some nice folks in Michigan; the rest of us are supposed to shove our fingers in our ears, dream of container ships, and wait for Austan Goolsbee to fix the whole thing later. The problem with this approach is that every time Barack Obama says something intelligent about trade, some guy in Ohio plugs his own ears and waits for Obama to stop pandering to globe-trotting pansies too weak to build their own vehicles or churn their own butter. The only thing I know about Obama is that he is less scary than the other guy.

McCain’s bloodlusty glory-and-honor-at-any-cost orientation terrifies me. On the other hand, I’m reasonably hopeful that Obama will emerge a calculating and not at all honorable politician, thus talking the protectionist talk and doing nothing to advance an economics of resentment. I have a largely unjustified faith in Obama’s faithlessness, which is why I am voting for him.