A collection of end of the year items

Filed at 8:25 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

I’m no good with making my own top ten/end of the year lists, so here’s a list of other people’s:

Top ten campaign gaffes of 2007
Glenn Greenwald’s favorite quotes of 2007
The top ten Iraq myths of 2007
A look forward: the ten least likely news stories of 2008
Bush tops CNN’s “most admired American man” poll of 2007, […]

A note on polling (don’t believe it!) Part II

Filed at 4:47 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

(Just for clarification, this was written & published before the new Des Moines Register poll came out and wasn’t meant to specifically bash it, just to shed caution on polls in general.)
Since I’m getting asked about polling again, I thought I might as well revisit two items that I would highly recommend reading and keeping […]

aside- lamest legal arguments of 2007

Filed at 3:32 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

The Bush Administration’s lamest legal arguments of 2007.

aside- awkward condiyear

Filed at 3:25 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Wonkette: 2007 was the Awkwardest Condiyear EVER

Chart of outside expenditures

Filed at 2:41 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

From the Obama campaign (who else?)

aside- tv newser top 2007

Filed at 2:10 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

TV Newser’s top stories of 2007.

aside- notable deaths of 2007

Filed at 2:09 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Notable deaths of 2007.

aside- riaa loses its mind

Filed at 2:00 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

The RIAA has officially lost its mind.

aside- ethics scandals of 2007

Filed at 1:24 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

CREW: The top ethics scandals likely to continue next year.

The ultimate in pandering

Filed at 1:22 pm, Monday December 31st 2007
by Arlen Parsa

If politicians really want to get votes here in New Hampshire, they could do worse than to start by shoveling a few driveways…

I want to highlight two new & improved site features real quick

Filed at 11:59 pm, Sunday December 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

I wanted to highlight two features that I’ve been fooling around with tonight and refining. The first is the Asides feature, which sits at the top of the middle column on the homepage. It has mini-posts about a sentence in length which usually include a link. These posts aren’t transmitted through the site’s RSS feed, […]

aside- krugman: obama detail ‘great’

Filed at 11:21 pm, Sunday December 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Reversal: Krugman calls proposed detail of Obama’s health care plan “great.”

aside- daniel pipes muslim obama smear

Filed at 9:07 pm, Sunday December 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Even more: Mainstream conservative Daniel Pipes tries to spread lies about Obama’s religion.

aside- Stephanopoulos does a clinton interview

Filed at 8:43 pm, Sunday December 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Questionable: ABC gives Stephanopoulos their Clinton interview.

aside- edwards uses the word “fight” a lot

Filed at 2:07 pm, Sunday December 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Edwards uses the word “fight” nearly 40 times at a single campaign event.



Asides


 # Clinton donors defect to Obama

 # Oops: McCain's website plagiarizes recipes from the Food Network.

 # Memo to David Axelrod: Forget bowling, Obama needs to  # John McCain has a foul, foul mouth.

 # Obama on The View: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.