bjkeefe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Kinsley has a nice piece up on Slate about Al Franken . He asks, in this age of the never-ending quest to find the next thing to be offended by, whether some of Franken's old jokes will kill his chances of winning. Me, I'm as sick of feigned outrage as I am of anything these days. But you probably already knew that .
Strong As An Ox And Nearly As Smart (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
To Swift-Boat or Not Time Magazine, Thursday, Jun. 12, 2008 By MICHAEL KINSLEY Michael Kinsley remarks early in his article that “Swift-boat is shorthand for the brilliant, despicable Republican campaign strategy in 2004 that turned John Kerry's honorable service in Vietnam into a negative factor in his campaign. “ Then Kinsley dismisses any arguments about the merits...
blatherWatch (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Writing in Slate, our old pal, Michael Kinsley has written a cogent commentary about the Al Franken's problems in Minnesota. "Any joke that doesn't offend at least a few people is unlikely to be funny," he writes. "You have to...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Franken's Quandary: The Minnesota Senate candidate has been telling jokes for 30 years. How does he explain away the bad ones? By Michael Kinsley
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | yesterday
... people more comfortable and make their lives better, although that is an important by product. Is Michael Kinsley with more energy, but not quite the same level of brilliance, as if that were possible. But where is the Imperial Family No Bush twin is in any service defending this nation. T understand the actual, physical size of this thing just by looking at the picture. The so called...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By Michael Kinsley The Washington Post Monday, July 7, 2008 Americans say they want to be represented by "real people" and not by "professional politicians." But with their votes they reward professionalism and drain the reality from politics. Real people haven't spent their lives plotting a political career, and therefore real people may have said things from time to time that an aspiring politician...
Maverick Tribe (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
... thirty years, yielding a treasure trove of material his opposition can use against him. As usual, Michael Kinsley, the best opinion writer alive today, best frames Franken's dilemma: Franken (a slight but friendly acquaintance of mine) is in a quandary. He can't stop his campaign to defend every joke he's ever written that someone now finds offensive, or pretends to. Trying to explain...
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
· HighOccupancy gives us a killer layover suggestion for Michael Kinsley in our Layover Nation Contest . Got a suggestion you wanna share? Do it here. · FemmeGM of the Homewood Suites in Palm Beach Gardens details what's inside her hotel and it includes a putting green! We have been open now for just a bit over 9 months, and yes we do have flat-screen TV's (36inches, free high-speed...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
This article is part of a series on "creative capitalism," a term used by Bill Gates to describe how market incentives can be used to better aid the world's poor. The Huffington Post is reprinting a number of these articles in collaboration with creativecapitalismblog.com, an Internet publishing experiment run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. After several weeks, the articles -- along...
The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
So my column about John Mackey, Kip Tindell, and their ideas about what Mackey calls " conscious capitalism " turns out to have been moderately timely after all. Yesterday Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke threw open the doors to a group blog that they and a few economists and journalists have been filling with posts for the past week. The subject: "Creative Capitalism"--the not-entirely-profit-motivated...
