Wasn’t that a thing? A millenary confection in grey felt, glittering with rhinestones, trimmed in black grosgrain. My. Oh my. I’m hearing from white friends who thought it was, well, tacky and overdone. I think they missed the point entirely. Aretha’s hat was a full-on diva crown, in the best African-American Sunday Suit tradition. Hats …
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Investing in America
Group News Blog, December 7, 2008 A huge sinkhole, already one of the largest on record, near Daisetta, TX, May 2008. James Nielsen/Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press In the comments threads for the next article down, we’ve got one trollish commenter who rejects Keynesian theory, and insists that the only way out of the current …
Election Night: The View from Abroad
Group News Blog, November 10, 2008 I watched the election returns from a cozy townhouse in North Vancouver, BC. A Canadian couple from our church had invited in all their American friends to share the evening. Eight years of Bush has been an impossibly hard burden for all Americans. For those of us who’ve spend …
Lying Liars, Part 13,417
Group News Blog, November 4, 2008 This e-mail was sent out yesterday to Farm Bureau members in Washington State, where Governor Christine Gregoire — who won her seat by 133 votes after several recounts in 2004 (and if that story doesn’t send you straight out to the polls, you are beyond hope) — is once …
Let Them Wear Valentino, Part Deux
Group News Blog, October 24, 2008 Jeff Foxworthy has a venerable routine about why you can’t give rednecks money. They’ll invest the funds in commemorative ceramic plates of NASCAR drivers, he insists. They’ll build a new room onto the trailer “so we don’t have to sleep with Jim’s daddy no more,” he drawls. When he …
Let Them Wear Valentino
Group News Blog, October 23, 2008 Sarah Palin looking understated in her now-famous $2500 Valentino silk jacket. Photo NY Post, via Huffington Post. The flap over Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe may seem like a petty thing to be paying attention to in the twilight hours of a 20-month campaign. Fashion, according to one view, is …
Mother of the Year
Group News Blog, October 16, 2008 2016: This photo was later discredited by Snopes. But the argument below still stands. The provenance of the above photograph is unknown. It arrived in my mailbox this morning, shorn of context. (For all I know, Piper Palin’s face — and it is her face, I checked — was …
Michelle Obama, Superstar
Group News Blog, August 26, 2008 photos by Evan Robinson Monday night was the first time I’ve ever been on a convention floor. In some ways, it was very much what I expected — an explosion of light and noise and color as I came out of the tunnel onto the main floor; the …