by Jet Set Celebrity Reporter Lee Stranahan I did a one day quick trip up to San Francisco yesterday for last night's YouTube Live event. It was really great; I talked to Joe Satriani twice, will.i...
Author - Bob Cesca
Drudge Exposes Obama Hypocrisy (Not Really)
Drudge: Green Obama's official limo is a gas guzzler... Right, Drudge, do you think maybe the president-elect is riding around in a large vehicle because people are, you know, trying to kill him? And...
Afternoon Awesome
I'm not a huge Armstrong fan and, yeah, they were all doped up on EPO in the 2003 Tour, but sue me -- I'm really looking forward to July. (Those of you who are new to the blog... Yes, I'm a cycling...
This Week
I'm watching This Week. Arianna Huffington and Robert Kuttner are outstanding today. Just so refreshing -- and they're wiping the floor with Brooks and Will on the auto makers, on the economy, on the...
Panic!
Very Serious Tom Friedman: If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. Yes, Mr...
Inaugural Security
Four million people are expected. It sounds like a logistical nightmare, but they seem to have it covered: People attending the ceremony and parade on Jan. 20 can expect to be searched by machines...
Huh?
Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine: "...if Obama really wanted change, if he really wanted to honor progressives who backed him early on and then did the grunt work against...
Morning Awesome
Rush - "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)" Live Cool lyrics after the jump...
Obama And The Bloggers
BooMan making sense again: If Obama listened to the Netroots' advice all the time he wouldn't be president-elect [...] he generally ignored the Netroots' advice and, for the most part, he was wise to...
The Obama Communications Bullpen
We knew that Gibbs would be the press secretary. But Ellen Moran has been named communications director, and Dan Pfeiffer has been named deputy communications director. Those of you following along...
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for random Saturday night discussions, as well as complaints about TypePad.
Hackery Hall of Fame Inductee
When the history of the 2008 presidential campaign is written, it probably won't name TIME Magazine reporter Mark Halperin as the nation's most egregious hack. Because unfortunately this history will...
Viva La Ron Paul Revolution!
also by Stranahan My newest Huffington Post piece - Hey, Ron Paul Republicans!?! It's Time For A GOP Palace Coup! - is up and at 'em. Please forward it to William Weld.
The New Infrastructure
from ace reporter Lee Stranahan at a San Francisco Starbucks Those 2.5 million jobs Obama wants to create - that's going to be a lot of infrastructure jobs. And I'll be honest, my first thought is a...
2012
Bobby Jindal is in Iowa today. Iowa. UPDATE: And Huckabee is running robocalls there, too.
'The Pursuit of Peace'
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary, rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war, and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on...
SNL Presidents
The mistake that SNL often makes -- and it's always less funny this way -- is to try too hard to nail a character. In other words, they sometimes slip into the trap of doing imitations rather than...
The Creator of the "O"
Interview with the designer of the "O" logo. I'd love to see a survey comparing the brand ID of the "O" logo versus the McDonald's "M" and the Apple apple. My bet is that the "O" logo is almost as...
Obama's Weekly YouTube Address
2.5 million new jobs in two years? Wow. If they do it, we're looking at more pickups in Congress in 2010, and, barring any major mistakes, easy reelection in 2012.
In Defense Of Lieberman
From the e-mail. Oh my: You wrote a terrible piece on Joe Lieberman in your “open letter”. Joe Lieberman is nothing but the most respectable guy I’ve ever met. You Democrats are soooo mad at him...