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Do Lefty Blogs Have To Be Boring?

It's certainly the impression you get scanning Daily Kos and Think Progress and even the inestimable Talking Points Memo. Don't you people ever drink or get laid? Barack Obama leads John McCain comfortably in the polls, the immediate legacy of the Bush years lies symbolically somewhere between "The Scream" and the Hindenburg, and American liberalism in general is said to be on a dramatic uptick. So why are liberals still so earnest and dire? Here's a random excerpt from today's Kos: More »

2:10 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Michael Weiss
2,090 views, 58 comments

Latest by Mediahohoho: I have a great sense of humor that doesn't depend on hoping conservatives die in a terrorist attack, the joke that pretty much defines conservative "humor." more »

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The Most Liberal Sites In America

Nielsen, one of the outfits which tracks where web users spend time online, also asks survey respondents a series of questions about themselves—including, interestingly, their political leanings. So which sites are the most liberal, and conservative? The blue bars represent the proportion of the site's audience who declare themselves to be liberal or very liberal; the red bars represent conservative, moderate and undeclared. Daily Kos and Huffington Post, unsurprisingly, attract an overwhelmingly left-wing audience. Fox News and the Drudge Report draw the highest percentage of conservatives—even though Rupert Murdoch's news network still declares itself "fair and balanced." More »

4:18 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Nick Denton
14,008 views, 81 comments

Latest by n/a: Meaningless. more »

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Please Welcome Drudge to the World Wide Web of 2003

The Drudge Report's permanent list of links to blogs, papers, columnists, and other sources has always been idiosyncratic. Peggy Noonan and Rosie O'Donnell share precious space with Forbes and CNN; blogs are generally underrepresented but Gawker's long been a staple. Earlier today, he quietly updated. New to the Drudge permalink club: Daily Kos, Free Republic, and Talking Points Memo, among others. The man's had Perez Hilton up there for god knows how long but he's just now getting around to a web magazine that's been online almost as long as he has? And such belated recognition of Kos? Is liberals growing hatred of Hillary Clinton really all it took to win Matt's love?

2:07 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Pareene
493 views, 18 comments

Latest by meerkat: @mathnet: Wouldn't it be fun if all those people were together in one place? Oh, wait.... more »

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Eliot Spitzer Is Pro Popped Collar

  • Exciting! Exclusive! News! The former governor was seen wearing a windbreaker in his lobby!
  • Since there's actually a hotly contested Democratic primary, the Daily Kos bloggers are whining at each other instead of whining at the Republicans.
  • TMZ says Madonna might be leaving London and moving back to New York. No word yet on whether or not she's dropping her affected British accent.
  • In San Francisco, even the strippers are a bunch of hippie Communists.
  • Ashley Alexandra Dupré hung out in the Hamptons with Eliot Spitzer's friend and donor. Billionaire hedge-funder James Chanos says he partied with Dupré, but that he never dated her. He also denies having introduced her to Spitzer.
  • The web site for Reliance Construction Group, the company responsible for the luxury condo crane collapse that left four people dead, says they specialize in "fast track scheduling" and boasts of their "willingness to take on assignments with deadlines considered virtually infeasible."
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    2:30 PM on Sun Mar 16 2008
    By hwalker
    3,202 views, 19 comments

    Latest by n/a: Ready your "dress like a douchebag" flow charts. They'll soon be printing them on the back of MetroCards. more »

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    This Site Full Of Leaked Documents Is So Good, The Government Just Broke The Constitution To Shut It Down

    I hadn't heard of Wikileaks until a California judge granted an injunction against the site, where anyone can upload a leaked document, shutting it down summarily at the request of Bank Julius Baer. Wikileaks had published and analyzed sensitive documents that legally implicated the Cayman Islands bank. The Daily Kos has a roundup and points to the many copies of the site that won't be as easily shut down. The site has also survived a denial-of-service attack, and a fire. Good thing too, because this site makes the Smoking Gun look like TMZ. More »

    3:54 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
    By Nick Douglas
    26,771 views, 12 comments

    Latest by JeffLass: A investigation must be started immediately into Judge Jeffrey White's court and where he presumes he has the legal authority to shut down a website based solely on the complaints of a corrupt corporate entity [in this case a Swiss more »