In a piece otherwise effusively praising the intellectual curiosity of Big Media's Big Boyfriend John McCain, we get treated to this reluctant admission by the Post's designated McCain-escort-for-hire Robert Kaiser:

McCain is a restless seeker of stimulation and information. Books are one source -- "He's a voracious reader, a constant inquirer," said Salter. McCain jokes about his lousy academic record (he finished fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis) but is clearly proud of what he has learned from reading and travel. And he uses Senate hearings as seminars.

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Media Matters, July 17, 2008 (via Shakesville):

"I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent?

Crossposted at Daily Kos.

Ok, set the scene. A student, Webster Cook, at the University of Central Florida, objecting to the use of public funds at that state university to support chaplaincies or other religious student groups, attended Mass recently, received Communion in the hand but did not initially put it in his mouth.

Please note: harder language than Crab Media's average in this post. Please be advised if such language is offensive to your sensibilities.

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I love Republicans. Really. They are perfect in their awfulness so reliably often.

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Baltimore Sun, May 22, 2008:

Maryland Transit Administration officials are offering discount cards for area businesses to students who pledge good behavior on city buses, an incentive that transit administrators hope will help curb disrespectful and violent behavior. The discount card will offer 10 percent to 20 percent off purchases at 12 city establishments, including Dunkin' Donuts, Cold Stone Creamery, Shoe City, Downtown Locker Room and other places.

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Speak it, Josh:

Ferraro is a "media assassin" who took the wrong caliber bullets to the "hit." She needs to call Bill Donohue at the Catholic League, have him teach a tutorial on Media Assassin 101. But in a way, she has reminded ethnically identified "white" Democratic voters in Pennsylvania to show up like they did in neighboring Ohio and vote down the big. bad, unfair Negro. Hillary should ship a bottle case of gin to the good servant done well.

I can understand how pro-life doctors will want to refuse to administer an abortion. I can even understand how some will refuse to supply birth control. But I cannot understand how a GYN refuses on MORAL grounds to administer a PAP smear to determine whether a woman has cancer or a meaningful risk there of in the future. Apparently, the risk of death from cancer is important to preserve as a moral bulwark against the immorality of, well, sex before marriage. I guess it's more moral, more "pro-life", to watch a woman die of cancer than to risk the appearance that her concern for her health might be interpreted as an endorsement of her presumed sex life.

Political Wire, February 23, 2008 (H/T Oliver Willis):

[A quote from an attendee at a Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speech at St. Mary's College]

"Townsend said she expects Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination and that Clinton is finished. She believed that the Wisconsin results demonstrated that Clinton's coalition (voters over the age of 50 and those earning less than $50,000) had fallen apart. When asked why the Clinton campaign had failed, Ms.

John Derbyshire of the National Review Online's Corner:

Imagine an Obama presidency overwhelmed and floundering, like Carter's. There are enough issues, domestic and foreign, coming down the pike to make this very possible — you know them, I don't need to enumerate. Black Americans will of course go on voting for the party of a black president regardless. Nonblacks will flee from the Democrats in droves, though. A Republican landslide in the 2010 midterms (think 1994); a clear GOP victory in 2012 (think 1980).

Mark Penn, Chief Strategist for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, quoted in MSNBC's First Read, February 13, 2008:

"Could we possibly have a nominee who hasn't won any of the significant states -- outside of Illinois?" Chief Strategist Mark Penn said. "That raises some serious questions about Sen. Obama."

More on Clinton's reckless strategy of ignoring small- and medium-sized states to come. In a Republican primary, such a strategy might have merit since their system is winner-take-all in most cases: win the big ones by 5 points, get marked as "inevitable" and conserve resources for the general election.

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