Category: The Dish

Stuart Broad of England in action during a practice session prior to the first test match between England and New Zealand at Lords on May 13, 2008 in London, England. By Clive Rose/Getty Images.

The majority of Democrats think that both candidates should continue to campaign. But look at the intraparty split.

A British reader writes:

I am not yet sure the Conservatives are revivified, but they may be,

Still, I think you have the wrong end of the stick. People like Cameron and Johnson are Tories. Up to 1/3rd of working class people (and I do find back here that people will still use the term) in the UK have always been willing to vote Tory. Heath, Pryor, Butler, etc. What you see now in the UK is a revival of Toryism over Thatcherism. There is nothing more odious to working class people than over-reaching nouveau middle-classishness. Eton toffs are massively preferable, especially when Labour has become obsessively centralist and authoritarian.  

Now, Obama makes sense as a Tory, but not as a Thatcherite.

By the way, Boris Johnson’s full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

"It seems to me that the reason why people are doing this is to attempt to dramatize some sort of duplicity in a man who… I’ve known John McCain for a long time. He always said he was a conservative. He was a conservative. He is a conservative. It seems that people should take John McCain for what he says he is," – Warren Beatty.

A word for the day:

Long flowing sideburns.

[After the bushy sideburns worn by actor Edward A. Sothern who played the part of Lord Dundreary in the play Our American Cousin (1858), written by Tom Taylor (1817-1880). This was the play being performed at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC during which Abraham Lincoln was shot.]

It’s classic Obama country – but the margin over Clinton, even among women voters, is a useful counterpoint to West Virginia.

Judah Grunstein analyzes China’s response to the Sichuan earthquake and its awkward embrace of international aid. Fallows gathers first-hand accounts of the tremor.

(Photo: A chair sits between the damaged buildings after yesterday’s earthquake May 13, 2008 in Sichuan province, Dujiangyan City, China. A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China’s Sichuan Province May 12, killing at least 10,000 people. The death toll is expected to rise as there is no definite estimate of the number of people trapped under mounds of concrete. By Feng Li/Getty Images.)

Every Simpsons Couch Gag ever:

How one walks may be a key part of attractiveness:

The findings reflect the views of over 700 individuals who participated in a series of five studies, three of which involved animated representations of people walking. The attractiveness ratings for perceived women increased by about 50 percent when they walked with hip sway, and attractiveness ratings for perceived men more than doubled when they walked with a swagger in their shoulders.

But no one walks like Xavier.

His bald-faced lie about Obama’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg stands. Tapper chimes in. When will Boehner withdraw the lie and apologize?