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A McCain Voter Contemplates an Obama Presidency
I was going to write a poignant, insightful post about why this McCain voter is undismayed by the prospect of an Obama victory, but Peggy Noonan beat me to it. Saves me a few pixels, I suppose. An excerpt: A great moment: When the press was hitting hard on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old […]
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Wall Street Compensation in the Bailout Era
As bonus time approaches, Wall Street firms are trying to balance the need to retain key executives against concern about the “optics” of giving boatloads of bailout money to the people who arguably created the need for the bailout. It’s easy to sneer at what passes for frugality on Wall Street when it comes to […]
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The Corner vs. the Messiahmercial
The Web Goddess and I watched the Obamavision special via DVR while snuggling together on the couch. We’re a red-and-blue couple, but in the spirit of bipartisanship, I wore a purple shirt. I started checking out of the campaign emotionally after the final debate (see “Stick a Fork in Mac, He’s Toast“). So tonight (ok, […]
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Closer to Home…
I know you must be just aching for yet another post boasting about my recent flurry of traffic from all over the world (where the heck is Malta?), but it’s time to go hyper-local for a moment. Susan Mangasarian, much-beloved 84-year-old matriarch of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Maplewood, NJ, led the local CROP Hunger […]
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15 Minutes of Google Fame
It turns out that if you Google “lopez kathleen parker” (as someone from Houston did earlier this afternoon), my humble blog shows up as the fifth result.
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Facebook Bleg
I wish I’d thought of this before my BFF Andrew Sullivan sent more than 5,000 of his readers to my “Catfight” post, but here we are. For those of you who have found your way back here, I have a “bleg” (as in “blog beg,” a parallel coinage with “blog” from “web log.” Forgive me […]
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“Catfight” Post Sparks a Sullivalanche
Further info about traffic on the Catfight post that sparked today’s Sullivalanche… The full daily stats have not been posted to my Google Analytics “dashboard” yet, but it turns out that doing a customized search for a time period pulls out data that is more current than the dashboard. The graphic above shows my total […]
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Catfight in The Corner! Lopez vs. Parker
Welcome, Andrew Sullivan and 3QuarksDaily readers. While you’re here, I hope you’ll take a look around and leave a comment! The “Labels” section in the right column can be used as a menu. I’m a big fan of National Review Online’s group blog, called The Corner. It has been described as “the Id of Conservatism,” […]
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McCain Swings for the Fences with October Surprise
The five-run homer gambit (the Palin selection) didn’t work. But now McCain may have hit on a winning strategy: exposing how Barack “Lefty” Obama’s rank hypocrisy may endanger the integrity of our National Pastime: Standing just miles north of Philadelphia, whose Phillies will represent the National League starting Wednesday against the American League champion Tampa […]
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Stick a Fork in Mac, He’s Toast
Something not quite right metaphorically in that headline, but I’m too tired to figure it out. To win, Obama needed to refrain from burning an American flag onstage, and he more than met that challenge. He looked more Presidential than McCain. I’m trying as hard as I can to find reasons to stay on the […]