…If you cant, then it doesn’t matter anyway. The reunion bandwagon continues with news that Faith No More are getting back together for a European tour this summer. But it’s not going to be a real reunion because a major part will be missing “Big Sick Ugly” Jim Martin w...

So a disappointing result last night, but not an unexpected one. Not a single poll showed Martin leading in the runoff, and when the early voting numbers showed African American turnout way down, well, the writing was on the wall. Of course, while a Martin victory would've been the upset of the deca...

The danger of special elections and run-offs is that they invite analysts to impute some sort of national significance or trend to their outcomes. Sometimes, like in the string of Republican victories that preceded their 1994 revolution, this kind of analysis is warranted. But in the case of yesterd...

Today's run-off election for Georgia's Senate between incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin has attracted a lot of attention, especially because it could put the Democratic majority one seat closer to the 60 seats needed for a filibuster-proof Senate. Michael Grunwald of Time ...

There’s an interesting article by Rick Horowitz, reading the tea leaves as to just why John McCain gave us Sarah Palin as his running mate on that dark day in September. The theory he puts forth is that the offering to the religious right in this country was more like a poison pill, that the P...

I had a good long argument yesterday. (This is a 1944 Chuck Jones propaganda cartoon for FDR, which I found at Hoffmania. The conclusion is at the bottom of this post.) A young man came to canvass the neighborhood. It's the fourth time in four years. A different young person each time. This was a Ge...