Friday Talking Points [153] -- SOTU-palooza
[ Posted Friday, January 28th, 2011 – 12:38 UTC ]
But for now, let's take a quick look back at the week that was, and then spend the rest of the column examining the "narrative" of Obama's speech.
FridayTalkingPoints Article Archive
Friday Talking Points [152] -- A Palin-Free Month?
[ Posted Friday, January 21st, 2011 – 17:48 UTC ]
With some regularity, this column excoriates the mainstream news media for all sorts of continued idiocy in the way it conducts its business. But every once in a while, we have to applaud them when they get something right. This week, Dana Milbank of The Washington Post deserves mentioning, for pledging to stay Palin-free for the month of February. Details on this in a moment.
Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
[ Posted Friday, January 14th, 2011 – 17:11 UTC ]
To honor the fallen this week, we're going to refrain from our usual heated political rhetoric here for a change. It's only fitting, really, after such an emotional week for America. So, just to warn everyone up front, we're not going to be heaping our usual amounts of scorn on Republicans this week. Instead, we're going to (briefly) heap some scorn on the mainstream media, and then after a foreshortened awards section, we are going to reprint the text of President Obama's moving speech in Tucson this Wednesday, for those of you who haven't had the chance to view it or read it.
Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week
[ Posted Friday, January 7th, 2011 – 18:18 UTC ]
Sometimes it is hard to come up with a metaphor to describe the week that was. This was not one of those weeks.
Friday Talking Points [149] -- Making Holiday Sausage
[ Posted Friday, December 10th, 2010 – 17:46 UTC ]
The holidays are just around the corner, and the preparatory legislative sausage-making on Capitol Hill is in full swing. What a happy, happy time of year!
Friday Talking Points [148] -- Aliens Landing?
[ Posted Friday, December 3rd, 2010 – 17:42 UTC ]
So the good news this week was apparently that giant mutant space monsters are not, in fact, about to arrive and (assumably) enslave humankind and eat our children for snacks.
Friday Talking Points [147] -- Democrats Fighting The Good Fight
[ Posted Friday, November 19th, 2010 – 17:24 UTC ]
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that was a pretty good week for Democrats.
Friday Talking Points [146] -- Clowning Around
[ Posted Friday, November 12th, 2010 – 18:15 UTC ]
But for anyone who thinks that American voters just elected a bunch of clowns to represent them in Washington, I humbly draw your attention to Brazil, where they just elected a real clown to their Congress.
Friday Talking Points [145] -- A Democratic Epitaph
[ Posted Thursday, November 4th, 2010 – 23:29 UTC ]
An interesting article caught my eye last week, but what with all the election hoopla, I haven't had a chance to write about it before now. But even if it went mostly unnoticed by the public at large, it was an important and downright scathing indictment of the Democrats' complete inability to get their message out, so it certainly fits in with our theme here on Fridays. Some may feel, perhaps, that the word "indictment" is too strong to use here. I disagree. In fact, I'll make the statement even stronger: this article is an absolute epitaph -- which should be carved into the gravestone laid on top of the corpse of the Democrats' efforts to communicate their virtues to the voters in the 2010 midterm elections.
Friday Talking Points [144] -- Midterm Home Stretch
[ Posted Friday, October 22nd, 2010 – 16:57 UTC ]
I'm going to (mostly) resist the urge to take advantage of this column's volume number in order to write a really gross column. Numerically, and inventory-wise, a "gross" is (of course) one dozen dozen. Twelve squared.