McCain says he's a Maverick. The Maverick family of Texas begs to differ:
“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got [...]

For fuck's sake, how embarassing. The people in this video are like the relative whose invitation to holiday gatherings seems to get lost in the mail more often than plausible, because you just can't stand to hear what comes out of their mouth. How is it that ANYONE still believes the whole "Obama is Muslim" [...]

Well, given the fact that Christopher Buckley resigned his column at the Nat'l Review the day after announcing his support for Obama, and Wick Allison was an ex-Publisher when he made his announcement, they're not really NR stalwarts anymore, I'd suppose. But William F. Buckley, Christopher's father & founder of the National Review, was one [...]

In years past, when I visited the UK (which happens to be where I am now), I'd tell people where I was from, and they'd exclaim, "Alaska?!" as though they didn't realize you could actually get here from there, and then they'd ask one of a handful of questions:

Is it really like Northern Exposure?
Was it [...]

Yeah. Wow. How Palin/McCain are still in the race after Palin's interviews with Katie Couric, I did not understand. How McPalin is still in the race after those two debates, I find even more deeply and brain-meltingly baffling.
Seriously.
But there they are, and the only conclusion I can reach is that they're being kept afloat by [...]