Holy crap!  McCain supporters are proudly ignorant bigots, the kind that Aasif Mandvi correctly notes, "shouldn't necessary talk," who strattle many "levels of crazy" in their logic, as Jon Stewart notes.  Stephen Colbert always says his character on the Colbert Report is "a poorly informed, high-status idiot."  I think why he is so influential is ( Read more... )

I have to say, Colbert has kind of been on fire the last week or two (though I'm sad they took away his new glasses, I thought they were really sexy).  His interviews have been particularly sharp and amusing, such as with Jackson Brown and Cornell West and he's really gotten into a zone that I think really proved him to be a stand-out performer ( Read more... )

I think to call it a debate at all is to make a political statement because it really was more of a joint press conference.  However, I loved that Jim Lehrer kept trying to get them to talk to each other.  I was just watching a bit of Real Time with Bill Maher, which Nader appeared on, and, as Maher noted, what Nader says is not radical, but how ( Read more... )

Imagine you are a history professor from Germany.  You get a spot at the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting lecturer/asisstant professor for 5 years.   You and  your wife and your 1 and-a-half year-old daughter move to Pittsburgh in July.  Three weeks through the semester, your wife drops your daughter off at day care and then gets hit by a ( Read more... )

Day 21 - Too Many Lasts ( Read more... )

Day 18 - Real Germans ( Read more... )

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Day 8 - Lenbachhaus ( Read more... )

Day 6 - Altstadt und Politik ( Read more... )

Days 3, 4 & 5: Settling in ( Read more... )