Archive for January, 2009

Today, I embark upon my very own campaign. Today, I officially throw my thong in the ring to become Jill Biden v 2.0.

JILLIAN LOVEJOY LOWERY:

While President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are hard at work bringing the change…

Barack Obama’s use of the word “non-believers” in his speech was progress.

JEFF MORROW: Thank God for Obama’s inclusion of “non-believers” in his list of Americans.

Like many others, I spent last Tuesday surviving the cold, the inaccessibility of bathrooms, and the…

(To the tune of “There’s Nothing Like a Dame”): There’s nothing like a text! Nothing in the world.

HOWARD MEGDAL: With the advent of text messaging, all other human communication can be described as superfluous at best and at worst, time…

Dullards, dimwits, and dementia: Why 3-D isn’t cool yet

TED BERG:
That droplet of blood you see hurdling freely from the screen is not an apt metaphor for the technology that produced it. The plasma and platelets progressed from deep within an…

Different forms of vocal and instrumental manipulation have been used for decades in pop music and the feigned outrage over Auto-Tune comes from a lack of historical perspective.

STEPHON JOHNSON: Certain songs make you think of certain times in popular culture. Anytime…

JEFF ELDRIDGE:

Barack Obama’s inaugural address was businesslike and serious, mostly free of the grandiose oratory that became his hallmark during the 2008 campaign.  But tucked in the speech was a potentially sweeping realignment of American foreign policy, one that diverged…

The WBC can make baseball a truly global game.

STEPHON JOHNSON: As the World Baseball Classic attempts to make our pastime truly global, MLB organizations’ reluctance to send players stunts the sport’s growth.

Let’s be honest with ourselves. Baseball, as great as…

Adam Dunn is the bargain no team should ignore.

HOWARD MEGDAL: When I saw this piece in The Washington Post (okay, saw it in MLBTradeRumors.com citing The Washington Post), I understood that the phrase “falling out of my chair” was not much of…

Flobots are good

TED BERG:

As someone who enjoyed his formative years during the Clinton administration and now resides in Brooklyn, I’m contractually obligated to dislike anything that is at all earnest. That said, I think I kind of like Flobots.

They’re funky,…

STEVE KORNACKI: Andy Reid can’t win big games. We know this, supposedly, because he’s now coached in five NFC title games and lost four of them, and he also lost in his only Super Bowl appearance.

Of course, there’s another possibility,…