Remainders: Defending the Indefensible
·Defending Kerry from the lowest chord imaginable: "There is no such thing as 'pretending' to play bass in a garage-rock band."[ No. 2 Pencil ]
·Dean postmortem: "In the line at the polling booth, the guy with the non-ironic trucker hat and nothing other than instinct for who he trusts cancels the vote of the politics junkie who can tell you the name of Joe Lieberman’s Delaware field manager." [ Corante ]
·The forgotten victim in tittygate. . . Justin: In the photos, you can see "the face of a young man who realized he had PEAKED, and his life will likely go downhill from here." [ Boblog ]
·What will Jonah Goldberg say? Star Trek is Marxist. [ Matthew Yglesias ]
·Coming-out day for conservatives + gay marriage ruling in Massachusetts = Grover Norquist and Karl Rove can finally tie the knot. [ WT and NYT ]
·Funny can be sad: Low Culture's alternate Newsweek cover. [ Low Culture ]