Month: August 2007

"Sean [Hanity] is not a journalist – Sean is a conservative commentator," – Bill Shine, Fox’s senior vice president of programming, on Hannity’s fundraiser for Rudy Giuliani.

A first-person account of apnea treatment:

I received the CPAP machine in the mail. It is a machine about the size of a small loaf of bread with a big hose like thing attached (remember those old hair dryers?) and a mask to go over your face. (some go on both nose and mouth, mine is nose only) I didn’t want to use it at first, I don’t like things touching me while I’m sleeping but I was getting more miserable with the situation. I started using it on and off. I started noticing that when I used the machine I didn’t have a headache and I had more energy. (Finally getting the REM sleep that everybody needs – the restorative sleep) It’s weird to have it on at first and you do kinda look like a science fiction monster.

I eventually got used to it and started to use it every night. My whole life started to change. Suddenly I felt good again. No sleepiness, no dry mouth, no headache and an abundance of energy. I even started working out again because I didn’t feel so tired anymore. I could go to the movies and pay attention again, Every car ride wasn’t nap time. It was very much like coming alive again. I realized that I had not really been sleeping all those months – it was like putting in the bare minimum of fuel in a car and running on fumes.

Megan McArdle joins our merry crew of bloggers at the Atlantic today, and with a post of impeccable timing.

A new study. Bottom line:

We also find that, among Republicans, for about every two Iraq war casualties among soldiers with hometowns in the congressional district, the Democratic swing increased by about one percentage point. Democrats, in contrast, faced no electoral reward or punishment contingent upon their votes on the Iraq war or based on the number of Iraq war casualties in their districts.

They’ve gone mighty quiet this year. They carry half as much news about Iraq as their competitors. Rove got your tongue? Still, there’s considerable evidence that talk radio helped kill the immigration bill.

A rare victory against the Bush administration’s attempt to regulate speech at its rallies. AP story here.

Sometimes the strangest people use the worst slang.

A milestone of sorts. Pray for his soul and his family and his readers.

An incident in a Belgrade zoo. Beer and bears don’t mix too well – unless you’re talking about chubby gays.

My beloved candidate has just won an Alabama straw poll, although almost no one showed up and Alan Keyes won last time. But the liberals are onto him. The American Prospect is unimpressed. Today, however, is Ron Paul’s birthday – and Reason has a great line-up of pieces about him and his campaign.