Biden -- and Kerry and Clinton -- go on the attack
Before Barack Obama's surprise appearance, a tag team of Democrats, including Bill Clinton, piles on John McCain. And Joe Biden, Rove-style, goes right for McCain's supposed strength
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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MIA at convention: Anti-Bush swag
All the Obama memorabilia is great, but why so few jabs at our supremely unpopular president?
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Biden -- and Kerry and Clinton -- go on the attack
Before Barack Obama's surprise appearance, a tag team of Democrats, including Bill Clinton, piles on John McCain. And Joe Biden, Rove-style, goes right for McCain's supposed strength
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Bill Clinton shows -- and gets -- the love
"Barack Obama is ready to lead America," he tells an adoring crowd -- and suddenly Clinton haters who predicted mayhem in Denver are 0 for 2
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Advice to Obama for his historic speech
Five Democratic wordsmiths offer up their do's and don'ts
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Hail and farewell
Hillary Clinton officially ended her historic campaign with dignity -- and her backers' predicted meltdown never happened
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The road to Wikipedia
How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet
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The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western!
Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds
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Tom the Dancing Bug
Unremarkable Doug's saga continues
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No more purple dinosaurs!
The creators of "Yo Gabba Gabba" tell the story behind the coolest (and least annoying) kids shows on television
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Ain't no wind in T. Boone Pickens' sails
The oil tycoon's support of John McCain for president demonstrates that his heavily advertised plan for wind power is only hot air
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Beating up on women never gets old for Fox
From gripes about Michelle Obama to news of a Miss USA reality show, Fox News has a field day beating up on the ladies
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
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Monsanto's bane: The evil pigweed
Remember the boll weevil? A new terror is stalking the cotton fields of the American South
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Red State Update: "Cookin' With Jackie Time"
Get out your whiskey and your salt to make convention corn fritters with Jackie Browles and Mr. Slaw
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What makes Biden Biden?
The moral backbone that led the V.P. nominee to stand up to Milosevic and pass the Violence Against Women Act was bred into him by his father
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"No way, no how, no McCain"
Hillary Clinton targets the Republicans -- and her loyalists who have been unwilling to give up the good fight
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When is a plot not a plot?
A group of armed "meth heads" reportedly discussed shooting Barack Obama, but the feds opted for lesser charges
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We drive as we live
No wonder traffic will never improve. We are doomed by our behavior, as a drive in New York with "Traffic" author Tom Vanderbilt reveals
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Hope floats
She was unforgettable in Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke." Now Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc explains what the storm took away -- and never could
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"Traitor"
Too much narrative trickery takes away from the real talent in this post-9/11 thriller, Don Cheadle and Saïd Taghmaoui
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Rolling with the punches
Californians remind me of Londoners. They're less jittery than the rest of us, and disaster doesn't terrify them
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The K Chronicles
A fair and balanced look at Obama's run for the presidency
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
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Biden's mission
All signs are that Joe Biden won't back away from the job ahead of him -- combat with John McCain
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Warnings to Russia from Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham
McCain's two top Senate allies lecture Russia on the dangers of trying to dominate and interfere in other countries
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Isn't she lovely?
In her prime-time speech Monday, Michelle Obama foiled her harshest detractors and perhaps even won over Middle America
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Angry PUMAs on the prowl in Denver
They don't care if they make Chris Matthews happy, or if they make Hillary Clinton look bad. They don't even care that she wants them to stop
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¡Viva Obama!
In Denver, a group of Latino voters show why they may hold the key to power for Democrats in the West
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The souls of young Muslim folk
What it's like to be America's new "problem" in the age of terror
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This Modern World
Tonight: The latest stupid campaign season distraction that we in the media keep talking about!
Monday, Aug. 25, 2008
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Is change "scary" or is change "hopeful"?
As the Democratic convention opens, with a speech by Michelle Obama and an in-person appearance by Ted Kennedy, undecided voters wrestle with their feelings about change -- and the nominee
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The eternal flame
Like all the Olympics, the Beijing games leave us with abiding memories -- and a spark of inspiration
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Blockbuster blackface
"Tropic Thunder" inspired protest from disability activists. But why is no one complaining that Robert Downey Jr. is playing a black man?
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If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too
Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one
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What's up with black names, anyway?
From Tayshaun to Rau'shee, Olympic athletes have been a reminder of distinctive African-American names. Before you poke fun, here's a history lesson
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The heretic
Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher's unconventional behavior did him in
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Busting the electric car myth
No, electric cars don't suck down the same amount of energy as gas guzzlers do
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Since you asked ...
I seem to be moving in with my boyfriend -- but why?!
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
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Opus
Isn't there anything untouched by naked political rancor?
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I Like to Watch
Mad respect to the disrespectful, from gold medalist Usain Bolt to the authority-questioning Marines of "Generation Kill" to the thoughtful artists on HBO's "The Black List"
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