Jeremy Lott
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It’s tempting to write a rebuttal of that halftime show but it turns out Alanis Morissette was there first: OK, that jab is a little unfair. Since the act was the Black Eyed Peas, today’s show was about the best…
Are there any fans of Christina Aguilera’s rendition of the national anthem out there? I realize it’s a hard song to sing, but she didn’t even try. Instead, she attempted to reinterpret it, badly. Also, is there a reason that…
Over at Time‘s Swampland blog, religion gal Amy Sullivan slams Republicans with a joke that’s in such poor taste that you might laugh in spite of yourself. She writes, “After a week of dodging questions about why they thought the…
LYNDEN, Washington — A bill just introduced in my own state’s legislature shows just how maddening the debate about abortion in the U.S. has become. Legally, America is an abortion-on-demand country. It has been so since the Supreme Court decreed…
LYNDEN, Washington — “Waste more time.” Rarely had your scribe bothered to make New Year’s resolutions, much less follow through on them. This one was different. As the clock turned over to 2010, it’s what I set out to do…
There are some people whose absence is more deeply felt than their presence. They don’t light the room on fire when they walk into it because they are busy doing something far more vital. Without these people, the room doesn’t…
This may be the funniest newsclip I have ever seen:
The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics By Walter Mondale with David Hage (Scribner, 384 pages, $28) Every career has a low point: a time when things go so badly that you begin to wonder, what am I doing…
“A Christmas tree lighting? In Portland? Seriously?” Such was my flip reaction to news that 19-year-old Muslim Somali immigrant Mohamed Mohamud had attempted to set off a van full of explosives in downtown Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square Friday night during…
