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Via Marc Ambinder:

First you help inject race into the campaign and raise its focus as an issue (as the McCain campaign did yesterday with a little door opening from Obama himself).

I think we Americans have become a whiny, selfish bunch. 

If something goes bad in our life it's not our fault.  It's someone else' fault.  And we are always the victim of something, never the victimizer.  Why is that? I don't remember it being that way when I was a young man in my twenties.

I think we Americans have become a whiny, selfish bunch. 

If something goes bad in our life it's not our fault.  It's someone else' fault.  And we are always the victim of something, never the victimizer.  Why is that? I don't remember it being that way when I was a young man in my twenties.

You can surf around the news cable channels and for some unknown reason you get the McCain talking point that the Media is gone all google-eyes on Obama, favoring him in coverage, and failing to seriously challenge his statements.

Let's leave the amazing coincidence that this is the single topic, all of a sudden, on every cable news show and many of the broadcast channels, and ask a question:

Katie and I have flip-flopped about television and cable since we bought this house nearly two years ago. First we had it, then we didn’t. Then we had it again, and soon it’ll be no more.

A look at what made Tim Russert one of kind:

An investigation into conduct at a Metro fire station has led to discipline against five people.

Captain Michael Crume will be demoted to firefighter.

Also, firefighters Jeffrey Warbritton, Norman Crawford, Richard Brantley and John Carpenter will be suspended without pay for two weeks.

Things going around the blogosphere for your Sunday reading enjoyment.

Maybe I just watch too much TV, but think that in the past couple of months, TV pitchman Billy Mays has crossed the line into overexposure. On some cable channels, especially on the weekend, you can see Mays endorsing what seem to be a dozen different products, all with his same loud and enthusiastic delivery. I still think of him as the “Oxi-Clean” guy, although he’s always done more than one product. But now he’s

So, just over a month ago, I canceled my Comcast subscription. I had digital TV [it's not fancy-schmancy HD, it's just what Comcast calls it when you get an extra nice menu and search functionality, so far as I can tell], and a DVR. I didn't have any premium channels. And it was costing me almost $100 a month.

That's outrageous.