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Most Popular Posts of the Week
Each Monday, we offer a list of our ten most popular posts, based on reader feedback and Google Analytics numbers. Here are the Top 10 for the week ending July 27, 2008:
1. Heute sind wir alle Amerikaner (Obama in Berlin) — July 24, 2008
Obama wows ‘em in Berlin, but will it help him back home? And what is going on with McCain’s growing turn towards nativism and nastiness?
2. The 300… is Me — July 18, 2008
The New York Times is all aflutter about the size of Obama’s foreign policy team, but is it really that different from past campaigns? Or is this merely a way for the Times to raise, once again, the “Obama is Inexperienced” meme?
3. Is It Cyber-Narcissism if Everyone Else Is Doing It? – July 20, 2008
Bloggers go to Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas to blog about bloggers blogging about blogging… and then complain when Barack Obama chooses to go to Afghanistan and Iraq to be with the troops instead of going to Austin to meet with them.
4. More on The 300 and Obama’s Experience — July 19, 2008
The media should stop obsessing about who is advising Obama and start asking whether they’re giving him good advice. And if experience were the only prerequisite for the Presidency, wouldn’t we have nominated Donald Rumsfeld and Joe Biden instead of McCain and Obama?
5. Shake Your Arse(nal) -- July 15, 2008
A Russian company hires pole dancers to perform at an air show — in the hopes of getting people to buy their jet engines. The (safe for work, but barely) video has too be seen to be believed. Ooh baby I love your thrusters!
6. How to Be a Good Delegator — July 24, 2008
President Bush announces his delegation to the Beijing Olympics. I suggest an alternative delegation that is so human rights-focused, the Chinese may never let them off the plane….
7. Is That a Missile in Your Pocket or Are You Just Glad to Photoshop Me? — July 13, 2008
The Iranians tested a missile that they’ve had in their arsenal for ten years. So to cover up the fact that it didn’t work properly, they decided to photoshop the results. And guess what? It worked. Set aside the photoshopping issue for a moment and realize that the media ran with a story that wasn’t news.
8. The Manchurian President — July 2, 2008
Today, we found out who the real Manchurian Candidate really was: George W. Bush. No, I’m not suggesting that our President was kidnapped or brainwashed by anyone. It’s actually much worse than that. He’s not Laurence Harvey — he’s Angela Freaking Lansbury:
9. The Misappropriation of Teddy Roosevelt — July 14, 2008
I’m sorry Senator McCain, but Roosevelt’s ideas are not conservativism we can believe in. In fact, if TR had made that speech in the 1950s, Nixon and McCarthy would have called him a Commie rat.
10. Dillweeds of the Day: Right-Wing Poster Posters — July 23, 2008
Some wingnuts are angry over a poster’s fascist imagery. I don’t blame them — just look at that McCain poster! Oh, wait. You mean it’s Obama’s? Because it’s in German? Idiots.
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