That’s the ratio of potty words on “left,” as compared to “right” blogs. Based on my own reading of both kinds, it doesn’t shock me. I wonder if it says something about relative emotional maturity?

I know that this is conventional reporting wisdom, particularly at the WaPo, but I think that there were many other reasons for the Republicans losing the Congress last fall:

Swept into power by voters clamoring for an end to the war, Democrats have seen their efforts stymied under realities more complicated than they found on the campaign trail.

Emphasis mine. In fact, if that were the case, the Dems wouldn’t be having so much dissension in the ranks, and difficulty in coming up with a politically palatable position. If the voters really wanted to simply end the war, then the Dems could simply defund it. But despite reporter Julie Davis’ breezy assertion, the Republicans lost for lots of reasons, some of them war related, some not, and it’s politically perilous to make such assumptions about what the voters wanted, other than that they were tired of Republicans.

The Donks’ problem was in fact nailed by the President in the State of the Union, in which he noted that while he wasn’t sure what the voters had voted for, he was confident that they weren’t voting for failure. Yet that is exactly what the Dems seem to want, or at least accept as a fait accompli.

While I agree with Don Imus that there’s “something wrong with” Chris Matthews, I’m amused to see that no one pointed out the obvious. Imus isn’t upset about the F-bomb on his show. He’s upset because he owns a ranch.

And I love this:

Imus: “If you were on

While the New York Times (unlike most of the media), manages to actually criticize Edwards’ choice of campaign bloggers, it can’t resist bashing bloggers (or, as I now prefer, bloggists):

Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world have landed his presidential campaign in hot water for doing what bloggers do

Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:

Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer

Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:

Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer

Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:

Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer

They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:

Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:

First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [

They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:

Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:

First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [

They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:

Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:

First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [