Author: Sonny Bunch

By Sep 05,2008

Baldwinonomics

I really got a kick out of the New Yorker’s profile of Alec Baldwin. A number of things struck me,* but this sentence has a deeper grain of truth to...

By Sep 04,2008

A community organizer

Over at The Plank, Sacha Zimmerman asks ‘Since when is a “community organizer” such a big bad thing to the Republicans? I mean, aren’t delegatesessentially–nay, actually–community organizers? And shouldn’t Republicans,...

By Sep 04,2008

An important point on Trig

Friend and former colleague Jonathan V. Last has some smart points in this post over at First Things, and I’d like to highlight one in particular: As such, the left...

By Sep 03,2008

Too rich

These sentences, from Andrew, are just too rich: The people who should be most incensed by the Palin pick are foreign policy neoconservatives. The selection has made a mockery of...

By Sep 02,2008

Do you have a problem with this?

And if so, why? Here we have a cop, surrounded by obviously hostile protesters, firing tear gas into a crowd after being attacked from behind by an unknown assailant. To...

By Sep 02,2008

More on Palin

Chris Orr posts an interesting note about Palin. Watching Palin operate over the past few years has been like witnessing a dramatic reading of All the King’s Men. In 2002,...