Sorry guys, been running around today and meeting with the fine folks at the Atlantic in D.C. Got to meet Andrew in person for the first time, so I'm swooning. Anywho, will be liveblogging the debate tonight from out here in Charm City. Stay tuned.
please TNC, till andrew fell for obama he was not exactly a person to love if one was relatively liberal. lots and lots of nasty, self-righteous, us/them columns after 9/11 and lots of self-absorbed and neo-conservative contrarian ones before that. let's say, some of us are willing to take andrew's aid now, but not give him a pass for what he has argued before his course correction. i think we should neitehr swoon nor obsess about his past error, as, for example, alterman does.
I have no illusions about who Andrew is. He's a conservative. I'm a liberal. Should Obama win, I expect Andrew to promptly begin attacking him from the right. And of course, I strenuously object to his whole Bell Curve thing. But all of that said, I have great respect for him as a fellow combatant. For this moment--and likely only for this moment--we find ourselves on the same side.
i wasn't worried about you. i was mostly just objecting to "swooning." to many, even informed folks, have told me about that "wonderful andrew sullivan" this year and then are amazed at his history when they are pointed to it. so, i just thought swooning a bit strong.
still, i been there with a lot worse than andrew. my office once let the pacific legal foundation be an amicus. it wasn't my call to mnake, and i'm not sure i could have called allowing them in as in the client's interests. we won. maybe it helped; they were pretty intesnely devoted to the issue. years on, i still feel tainted; i still think those folks are crazy, even if they fought with us.
way too much about me. you keep a great house here. the new piece on obama, ending with shredding mccain into lace, is dead on. and that palin piece the other day was yet another lesson from TNC to us all. we can be strong-minded and not lose the humanity that makes this worth doing. it's like the last line of september 1, 1939.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
"Got to meet Andrew in person for the first time, so I'm swooning."
Easy there, he's married.
please TNC, till andrew fell for obama he was not exactly a person to love if one was relatively liberal. lots and lots of nasty, self-righteous, us/them columns after 9/11 and lots of self-absorbed and neo-conservative contrarian ones before that. let's say, some of us are willing to take andrew's aid now, but not give him a pass for what he has argued before his course correction. i think we should neitehr swoon nor obsess about his past error, as, for example, alterman does.
Ford Explorer? You're really rubbing it in for those Prius-driving, latte-sipping liberals, eh?
@#$@#, I'm going to miss you at the book festival because it overlaps with my daughter's birthday party. Thanks for coming to town all the same.
BBW,
I have no illusions about who Andrew is. He's a conservative. I'm a liberal. Should Obama win, I expect Andrew to promptly begin attacking him from the right. And of course, I strenuously object to his whole Bell Curve thing. But all of that said, I have great respect for him as a fellow combatant. For this moment--and likely only for this moment--we find ourselves on the same side.
Whitey,
It's a Jay-Z reference. I caught the Acela. LOL.
TNC,
i wasn't worried about you. i was mostly just objecting to "swooning." to many, even informed folks, have told me about that "wonderful andrew sullivan" this year and then are amazed at his history when they are pointed to it. so, i just thought swooning a bit strong.
still, i been there with a lot worse than andrew. my office once let the pacific legal foundation be an amicus. it wasn't my call to mnake, and i'm not sure i could have called allowing them in as in the client's interests. we won. maybe it helped; they were pretty intesnely devoted to the issue. years on, i still feel tainted; i still think those folks are crazy, even if they fought with us.
way too much about me. you keep a great house here. the new piece on obama, ending with shredding mccain into lace, is dead on. and that palin piece the other day was yet another lesson from TNC to us all. we can be strong-minded and not lose the humanity that makes this worth doing. it's like the last line of september 1, 1939.
thanks