The New Republic

... impersonate 'em! That, at least, seems to have been the Connecticut GOP's plan: Twitter, Inc., shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives. The Republican scheme was to send out posts under the Democrats' names mocking the liberal tax-and-spend bastards. READ MORE >>

I humbly submit that this political ad, for Georgia gubernatorial hopeful John Oxendine, may be the worst of the visual age. If six-year-olds could vote, they might be a purpose to its childish animation, cartoon violence, numbing repetition, and sloooow delivery. But they can't, and there's not.  READ MORE >>

Only time will tell, but it's clear the Academy is pulling out all the stops when it comes to terrible ideas. First, it was the awful, bifurcating decisions to up the number of Best picture nominees to ten and cut down the number of Best Song nominees, possibly doing away with the category altogether. READ MORE >>

Not from Baby Einstein, they isn't. READ MORE >>

Look, anyone who imagines that New Gingrich is going to make a serious bid for the presidency in 2012 is nuts. (The smart money is that he'll muse endlessly about the possibility; let it be known that if the party wants him badly enough he'll allow himself to be drafted; and, when this does not happen, publicly take his name out of contention, explaining that he's abruptly found himself far too busy with some new organization with the word "Future" in the name. READ MORE >>

New York magazine's Vulture demonstrates that it is no longer possible to be ironic when it comes to Broadway: READ MORE >>

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Curious about Lars von Trier's by-some-accounts-fascinating, by-all-accounts-nauseating film Antichrist, but unsure whether you can make it through the scenes of graphic genital mutilation? New York magazine's Vulture is here to help: READ MORE >>

Responding to the $20,000 fine a federal judge imposed on her for repeated, frivolous court filings, Birther Orly Taitz explains: Judge Land's remarks amounted to nothing short of political lynching, which turned into feast and celebration by the media mob. Because nothing whets the appetite like a good hanging! READ MORE >>

Several years back, I worked as an editor at The Washington Post, and I still have good friends there. So it is with a combination of sadness and astonishment that I've watched the paper's precipitous editorial decline over the last few years. READ MORE >>