Slog - Comments on Like a Rolling Stone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone I'm glad that Schmader linked the Rolling Stone story on Britney Spears. At a time when magazines seem archaic, Rolling Stone seems to have some renewed journalism vigor lately. I picked up the previous issue recently and hunkered down with the story on the feds' hoaxy Joint Terrorism Task Force. The story I really liked in that issue, though, was the one about the GOP losing the Hispanic vote. Yeah, that's common knowledge, but it was a well-reported piece with candid quotes from GOP big wigs like Grover Norquist dropping some acid sarcasm about how dumb his party is: Grover... Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:38 -0800 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Aislinn Is Rolling Stone still that annoying big size?

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947817 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:41:52 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I'm glad you're glad that Schmader linked the Rolling Stone story on Britney Spears and linked to it.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947826 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:45:41 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Seeing as how I consider Rolling Stone to be the worst magazine of all time, it's difficult for me to find merit in something they printed. But I do, I do.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947842 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:54:54 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Yeah, Norquist is a real genius for realizing that spitting and shrieking that the Republican Party wants to exterminate the Messicans might cost them the Hispanic vote.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947843 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947843 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:55:02 -0800 Comment by Gitai @4 Not a genius, but impressive for his willingness to put electoral logic ahead of ideological purity, which is something Grover fucking Norquist is not well known for.

But I agree that it's very disorienting to agree with W on a major policy issue.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947852 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947852 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:01:31 -0800 Comment by SeMe One thing you also forgot is how Mccain took a hit from his party when he helped draft the Kennedy Mccain bill which was by far the best and most progressive immigration bill to come out of both houses. Obama and Clinton were no where in these fights, except to vote for border fences, but old man Mccain was in the forefront, and actually wanted a path to citizenship for all immigrants.

Obama and Clinton were the conservatives on immigration. Mccain has since backtracked but he has been WAYYYY better than Obama on immigration. Hopefully this will not hurt senator Obama in the general election, but I think it might.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947854 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:02:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @1 - yeah, still too big.

It's not like walls every worked, anyway.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947903 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:24:06 -0800 Comment by Geni Bear in mind that Bush takes his marching orders from the corporatocracy - and corporate America does not actually want illegal immigration stopped. It gives them a never-ending pool of desperate people willing to work for slave wages and unable to organize or protest lest they be deported.

If corporate America really wanted illegal immigration stopped, they'd have stopped it. They don't. They just want to use it as a wedge issue to keep us all hot and bothered and at each other's throats so we don't notice them picking our pockets for more tax cuts for the wealthy and more corporate welfare.

]]> Geni http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c947932 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:37:47 -0800 Comment by unPC The American people are concerned about job loss and making more money. Until the Democrats have a program that addresses this is a solid and convincing way -- providing real Hope -- the people and the politicans will engage in mutual pandering and scapegoating.

Democrats will blame trade, GOPsters immigrants, anything to avoid facing the fact we are the change we seek and we have to spend more and tax more to make ourselves more productive and healthy.

The solutions are socialized health care, college education for all, more studying, more r and d, more engineers, infrastructure development, and higher taxes on the rich, and lower taxes on the poor. Those solutions would create real hope, real unity, and real change, by actually solving the problem.

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c948051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c948051 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:39:25 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Good final para, unPC.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c948164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_a_rolling_stone#c948164 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:48 -0800