Thursday

 

Running on empty

  • Jonathan Schwartz gives a demonstration of black-belt level media criticism/snark.
  • Henley aint't too bad at it himself, but in keeping with internet traditions he should have written, “Shorter Michael Gerson” before he wrote, “John McCain was doing pretty well at making the campaign about image, but then something serious happened. And faced with a genuine crisis, the public decided it would rather have the black guy with the funny name dealing with it than the war-hero senator it had known and liked for decades.”
  • A Canadian TPM community member whom I know nothing about wrote a really good introduction to U.S.-Canadian relations with the hook of what Tuesday's Canadian elections mean for the next President of the United States.

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