No, not 43. 41. Dubya's dad, George Herbert Walker.

And why is that?

Here's a CAL posting I made on The Daily Show's "coverage" of Dubya's attempts to deflect on the Al Qaqaa cock-up and a pointer to a great column from the ever-lucid Paul Krugman of the NYT....   more »

John Zogby, head of Zogby International, called it for John Kerry Thursday night on the Daily Show.

He thinks incumbent George W. Bush isn't polling very good numbers for an incumbent and that the undecideds will ...   more »

For his spinechilling portrayal of an amiable dunce and toaster of the super-rich with his finger on the nuclear trigger, George W. Bush earns movie villian of the year honours, says Total Film magazine.

He ...   more »

The headline that did it this time was Republicans encourage minorities to get out and vote on Nov. 3.

How about those trendy blogs -- sez this little bandwagon jumper.

Here is an NYT piece: Madison Avenue Ponders the Potential of Web Logs.

NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman dumps on the Bush administration and -- surprisingly -- holds up Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as an example.

It does contain this one stunningly dumb statement:

That's the title for Frank Rich's current column on the 2004 U.S. presidential election. It analyzes the campaign from the perspective of screenplay writing.

Read it. It's good! :)

These are ones to record for posterity:

Guy at local sports bar: Busch stadium: Is that owned by the president?

(Note: George W. Bush is a one-time owner of the Texas Rangers. In fact, some ...   more »

David Brooks of the NYT has written an amusing column on election pundit blow-hards: Thus ate Zarasthustra.

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the passing of John Peel.

This was a disappointingly predictable column by the Village Voice on the nature of the political reportage this campaign: Too many sports cliches slipping into the copy.

According to an Associated Press story, an FBI visit to IndyMedia associate in Seattle on behalf of some foreign governments led to some web servers in the UK being seized.

But no one's responsible!

I would really love those out there in Dubya-lover land to explain to me how they could read the New Yorker editorial this week and still vote for him.

One of those bitchy Brits at the Guardian took irony a little far. And as a result, Charlie Brooker is apologizing for asking where the presidential assassins of yesteryear are today.

Here's what the Guardian ...   more »

Live vicariously with Canada's political and journalistic elite! I'm speaking, of course, of the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner. CTV.ca has a great collection of video available from it.

Yes, they employ me, but there ...   more »

This is an interesting yarn for those of you in the online news biz. The Wall Street Journal, which has long been walled off behind a subscription-only model, is sending previews to some of those information-wants-to-be-free blogger types.

The It man of TV satire, Jon Stewart, got a very respectful treatment by Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes on Sunday night (Hey, they're fellow Viacom employees).

Here's the story link. You can also ...   more »

The NYT's public editor Daniel Okrent opens up his column to readers who were commenting on his Oct. 10 evaluation of the Times's election coverage.

There's a piece in the Sunday NYT that tries to pin Jon Stewart on the fact that every time he was attacked in the infamous Crossfire segment for being a wimpy interviewer, his response was, ...   more »