Micah Tillman

Even the New York Times thinks Obama’s starting to show that his brand of politics is neither new nor a change.
Thank you. It’s nice when progressives agree with me.
(h/t McCarthy, TigerHawk)
UPDATE: Or how ’bout this headline from The Times of London?: “Barack Obama’s policy switches are giving the Left whiplash”
(h/t The Corner)

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Ever watch one of the Sunday politics shows on CBS, CNN, NBC, etc.? I was listening to one yesterday (C-SPAN radio rebroadcasts most of them on Sundays), while washing dishes, on which Gov. Tim (Kaine-Obama) and Gov. Tim (Pawlenty-McCain) were having one of those arguments that aren’t arguments:
A: I think X has skills.
B: No. Clearly [...]

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Below the fold, you’ll find the text of my address for Mt. Sophia Academy’s commencement ceremonies.
If you were there, you may notice that some of the jokes are missing. Sorry. One sometimes does a little ad lib-ing (libbing) when one actually delivers a speech . . . . (And then, sometimes, one has things one [...]

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On Friday, Michael Gerson, a former Bush administration person, wrote an article entitled, “The Libertarian Jesus” for the Washington Post. It is, strangely, a defense of compassionate conservatism.
I say “strangely,” because no one believes in compassionate conservatism anymore. (I love making general statements like that.) Except Mike Huckabee, and you know what I think about [...]

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If you visit the Drudge Report, you’ll no doubt have noticed how often the advertisements aren’t displayed properly. Frequently, adverts appear in spaces that are too small for them, leaving parts (sometimes large parts) of the advert undisplayed.
Take the following screenshots for example:

Included above you see partially-displayed advertisements for classmates.com, Fisher Investments, American Apparel Store, [...]

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The National Climactic Data Center’s preliminary report:
For the contiguous United States, the average temperature for April was 51.0°F (10.6°C), which was 1.0°F (0.6°C) below the 20th century mean and ranked as the 29th coolest April on record, based on preliminary data.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how useful these data are, given the disclaimer:
All temperature and precipitation [...]

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[Official Version Published Here]
[<<Volume 1 _________________________________________ Volume 3>>]
WEeding Awards, vol. 2
[Awards Home] [Winners] [Records] [FAQ]
Last week there was only one winning text. This week, I will be awarding WEedies to six texts (click on the text’s title to jump to its WEeding Award announcement):
2: “The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change,” by Steven Hayward, Wall [...]

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Five terrible commercials:
1. A radio spot for Ameal BP
A woman asks a man why he’s looking glum, and he says his doctor told him to “get serious” about his blood pressure. The woman says her doctor said the same thing to her. (Of course. For once I’d like to hear a commercial where the interlocutor [...]

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From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: . . . [W]hat that means to me is that in the face of suffering, there is no doubt in my mind that God calls us to respond. . . .
. . . [I]n my Judeo-Christian faith tradition . . [...]

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I’m getting annoyed with people’s using the prefix “post.” “Postmodern,” “post-national,” “post-partisan,” “post-protestant,” “post-Christian,” “post-secular,” etc.
From here on, I insist that we be in the post-post- era. We are beyond post-’s. We have learned from the post-’s of the past and are better for it. We rise above the post-’s which divide. We look to [...]

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