And now, less than three hours after moving Florida into Bush's column, the Slate electoral cartographers have moved it back to Kerry and also shifted Wisconsin to Bush, so they have the election tied at 269-269…possibly the most chilling outcome possible. None of this is because potential voters are changing their minds. It's because different […]
The silliness of watching the electoral maps today is driven home by what William Saletan (usually, one of my favorite political commentators) is doing over on Slate. For some reason, he and his staff have taken the position that there's no such thing as a state too close to call; that every state must be […]
I'll not insult your intelligence by thinking I can convince you at this late date to vote my way…or that you need me to remind you to go vote at all. I will suggest that if you go vote Tuesday, you prepare yourself for a very long line at the polling place. I think we're […]
Never mind the election. Let's talk about important stuff. Let's talk about TiVo. Since Jay, Dave and Conan were all in reruns last week, I seized the opportunity to have my office TiVo upgraded. On Wednesday, I took it in to a company called Weaknees and on Thursday, I went by and they handed it […]
Michael Kinsley makes a good point. Right now, this election is about a lot of trivia and it looks like it's going to be very close. But as soon as one guy wins, it's going to be about a mandate for the winner and the rejection of the loser's entire existence. […]
One other thought on the new Osama tape and one "by the way"… We've heard a lot of low, contrived attacks during this election but I don't think any are as desperate and as lacking in reality as, "The terrorists want to see [name of candidate] to win." Who the hell knows who they would […]
Last year, the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild foolishly bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award to the proprietor of this website. This year, they've come to their senses and they're giving it to Jack Mendelsohn. I first knew Jack's name from a brilliant, short-lived Sunday-only newspaper strip that he wrote and drew from 1959 […]
I've stopped looking at the various electoral projections. They're down now to moving states back and forth as one contender pulls one point ahead of the other…in a poll with a three-point margin of error that missed predicting the winner in 2000 by five points. They all have different rules of how to weigh the […]
This was taken about eight minutes ago, looking out the sliding glass door onto my back patio. We had a gap of several months there with no raccoons turning up in my yard to poach on the cat food I leave out for local strays. I thought they were gone for good…but this last week, […]
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Los Angeles Times obit for Bill Liebowitz. And I should report here that I've gotten an awful lot of calls and e-mails from folks who are still in shock over this loss. […]
They'll probably catch it and fix the mistake before long…but currently at Slate, they have the above box up on their day-by-day poll tracking column. This may be an unintentionally true reading of how the election will go. Remember: Last time, the loser got more votes, too. […]
Frank Rich on election fatigue and the general phoniness of the two men who have a shot at being President for the next four years. […]
I just replaced the photo I had up of Bill Liebowitz with one I know he'd have preferred. […]
We've just lost Bill Liebowitz, owner of the Golden Apple comic book shops in Los Angeles and one of the most prominent, influential retailers in his field. Bill had been ill for some time with what seemed to be a very bad flu. He died last night of an apparent cardiac arrest and is survived […]
The funniest man on the planet has opened up his new website. It costs almost $50 a year to join but it looks like it'll be worth it. In any case, there's a lot of free stuff there to enjoy for now. […]