Micah Tillman

*grin*
Here.

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And do my job too, it seems.
It’s amazing what you’ll discover when you start WEeding.
(Remember how I found out McCain and Obama are secret business partners?)
It’s been a fruitful week! (Or “WEek”?)

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Just finished commenting on John McCain’s speech to the NFIB (over at the WEeding Awards) and while doing so I made an amazing discovery.
Politicians never cease to surprise.
UPDATE Comments on the first Obama piece and the Rush Limbaugh piece are finished now, too.

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It’s not finished yet, but here are the winners, at least:
Speech to NFIB Summit, by John McCain
(More) Remarks on Retirement Security, by Barack Obama
“Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less!,” by Rush Limbaugh
“Tax Relief for the Middle Class,” by Barack Obama
“Hail the Male,” an Interview with Kathleen Parker (conducted by Kathryn Jean Lopez), NRO

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From this week’s WEeding Awards:
Prologue
I’m on the brink of declaring Barack Obama the WEediest writer in history. He always delivers. (Of course, there’s always the question of who actually writes his material. Politicians and their speechwriters . . . .)
With Obama’s nomination victory speech this week, I honor an amazing piece of collectivist WEediness, published, [...]

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“New Crops for Afghanistan,” by Lisa Schiffren, National Review Online’s “The Corner” blog
Reasons for Winning:

A:

“We, in the form of the DEA, have been sending specialists out to Afghanistan since the 1980s to persuade them, by carrot or stick, to stop growing opium [...]

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“All About Me,” by Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics
Reasons for Winning:

A:

“Here is how our baby-boom generation solves problems:” -Victor Davis Hanson

Comment:
An entire generation solves problems? Isn’t it mildly shocking to hear a conservative [...]

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“Sacrifices to the Climate Gods,” by Roy Spencer, National Review Online
Reasons for Winning:

A:

“Although we shudder at the thought of such barbaric practices, I believe that we have unwittingly reinstituted [...]

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From this week’s WEeding Awards:
Prologue
Seven more articles win WEedies, this week, and six of them come from conservatives. Volume 6 begins with four pieces on what we might call “domestic” issues, and ends with three pieces on “war” issues.
No less than two pieces tie the record for highest WEediness quotient (i.e., ∞), but one of [...]

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From the Prologue:
A new format this week leads to a more-amusing read, if I do say so myself. I have interspersed my commentary with the quotations for each WEedy article, to delightful effect.
As always, the writers whose works are honored come from both sides of the political aisle. Volume 5 begins and ends with pieces [...]

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