The kids are allright.
Results tagged “misspelling” from YGLESIAS errata
It seems to me that Roland Burris never should have accepted Ron Blagojevic's offer to have him become a pawn in the corrupt governor's insane gambits.
Editor's note: Perhaps Matt was referring to the impending indictment of Blagojevich when he said "[t]he good news, though, is that Blago is on his way out one way or another," but I would have thought his impeachment and removal from office would have implied that Blago was already out and not just on his way.
Back in late January, I praised Rep. John Micah of Florida for calling for the inclusion of more passenger rail funding in the stimulus bill. ... And what did Rep. Micah do?
Editor's note: When Matt blogged about Mica in January, he got his name right, so this isn't a "Ron Blagojevic" situation where it appears Matt doesn't know the correct name.
But because at least some progressives genuinely care about good government, Blagojevic has been unable to turn the allegations against him into a "partisan" controversy meriting "even-handed" press coverage.
Glenn Beck's HLN Replacement Allready Beating Him in the Ratings
"K Street" is a synedoche for the influence peddling business, but it's also an actual street and one you get east of 9th Street it takes on a much humbler character.
As another illustration of the conservative media's human capital problem, consider that some of the people writing for sites like Newbusters are evidently pretty dimwitted...
But more to the point, in 2007 Newbusters "reported" that CAP/AF CEO John Podesta is the leader of the organization? Really? Do this guy even know what reporting means? How on earth does he get these scoops?
Editor's note: Thanks to Rachel for the tip via our tip line. We're especially grateful since she was able to document the do/does mistake before Matt went back and corrected it.
Elliot Spitzer uses his most recent Slate column to call for a renewed spirit of competition and innovation in American business....
And I think there's a lot of sentiment that punishing people for consensual acts is wrong, and also that criminalizing prosecution leaves women exposed to violence, abuse, and rape at the hands of pimps and cops alike.
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So what's former prospector and former state attorney general Elliot Spitzer think about this?
Update: Thanks to willie for pointing out the "prospector" mistake.
Mistake of the week winner, January 18-24, 2009
Mitch McConnel warns that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, permitting workers to form unions through a majority sign-up process rather than an election rigged by employers, would "Europeanize America[.]"...
Beyond that, though, there's some nice places in Europe.
Noone Could Have Predicted...
Which I think mostly goes to show that the vote counts for bills in congress ultimately has very little to do with whether or not there's a general spirit of comity in town.
I think this comment from tsg sums it up best:
"Noone" is atrocious, even for Yglesias. Everyone makes mistakes, but "noone" featured so prominently shows outright contempt for the English language. Totally unacceptable.
The beginning of the Obama administration is good for the world, but probably bad for the progressive blogosphere. Fewer conservatives in positions of power equals fewer wingutty policies to complain about it. Fortunately, here comes Big Hollywood to the rescue with a fine wine from Dirk Benedict who played Starbuck on the old Battlestar Galactica. Benedict's hilariously insupportable thesis is that the old BSG was better than the old BSG and that the specific reason the old BSG was better than the old BSG was the old BSG's tendency toward simplistic storylines and retrograde gender politics
It must have been a day or two later when I was inside the Fleet Center and randomly ran into a guy I knew who, unbeknownst to me, had moved to Illinois to work for Ron Blagojevic (this was back when Blago was a progressive rising star) and he told me that I just had to get into the arena to hear this guy Barack Obama speak.
And of course it buts up against the fact that US policy toward Israel is in part a real aspect of our national security policy and in part an aspect of US domestic politics.
Will liberals still enjoy shadenfreude over bank failures?
Todd Gitlin writely calls this "shocking."
