http://blog.althippo.com progressive cyberdadaism from our nation's capital Fri, 16 May 2008 13:37:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Politico: An Ohio-based group of Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters say they’ll work actively against Sen. Barack Obama if he becomes the nominee, arguing that Clinton has been the subject of “intense sexism” by party leaders and the media. I get it that former Clinton supporters are going to have a hard time ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/05/16/well-call-it-the-good-sportsmanwhip-club/ The Great Blog War of 2008 has not been a good season for the reality-based community. And, unnecessarily so. The fight between the Clinton and Obama camps could have been over substantive issues. Instead, the tenor of the discussion was just a tad better than out-and-out name-calling. Still, ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/05/14/analytical-vs-persuasive-hackery/ One of the few perks in my small role in the vast left-wing conspiracy in Our Fair City, that of co-hosting DCDL, is that I get to meet the various authors, bloggers, etc., that I read, list to, or surf at. So, last night at Drinking Liberally we hosted author Eric ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/05/14/in-which-i-meet-james-risen/ As a post script to the Great Blog War of 2008, this from two Clinton-supporting blogs. One of which has laid down their weapons, the other of which seems to be decamping to the hills and marshes, preparing themselves for the next skirmish. I’ll let you be the ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/05/08/a-tale-of-two-bloggers/ I had not planned to take time off from blogging. But, life has a funny way of intervening some times. I have been engaged in non-internet-based activities involving other people. Upwards of 90% of which have been very positive and/or fantastic. That said, the stupid bullshit has to stop. ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/05/06/greetings-fellow-whatever-it-is-we-call-ourselves-these-days/ In comments below eRobin points me to a list put together by eriposte at the Left Coaster with the objective of showing that, like the Clinton campaign, the Obama campaign has gone negative. This is apparently in response to a post by Kos, referred to by the post author ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/04/25/the-obama-going-negative-list/ Just for a second, I’d like to pick on Turkana at The Left Coaster (apologies in advance. It’s not personal, just business.). There’s two representative misconceptions in this post, which I’d like to address. Delegates vs. Popular Vote. While Obama supporters continue to tout The Math, they continue to ignore ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/04/23/talking-points-watch/ http://blog.althippo.com/2008/04/23/this-should-end-well/ Of last night’s debate, that is. Last night was pretty much a perfect event in so far as one needed to both observe and then discuss the Kafka-esque nature of our political discourse. Actually, it would be more fair to say that our media lies somewhere between Kafka and a ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/04/17/not-so-much-drinking-liberally-as-drinking-to-numb-the-pain/ *Left the Building Watch (TiNAD**) ** Tuesday is New Acronym Day CorrenteWire, like Elvis, has left the building: According to Lind, Obama and his supporters are “Greater New England” types. But he thinks this is not a good thing: “The question, then, is not why Greater New England progressives would vote for Obama. He ... http://blog.althippo.com/2008/04/15/ltbw/