The American exSpectorator asked " Joe " the " Plumber " for his Christmas book recommendations. Here's a selection: Temples of Convenience - and Chambers of Delight (Lucinda Lambton): "It shed a great deal of light on the development of the lavatory, or as we say over home, 'the hutch.'" Most ...

Matthew Yglesias asks why oh why can't we have a better press corps--why are the gentlebeings of the press so eager to be played by Republican spinmasters? Matthew Yglesias: Strange Swing : Joe The Plumber has a list of recommended books and the only non-plumbing volume is written by ...

The American Spectator asks "Joe The Plumber" for his Christmas book recommendations .

by TW Collins During the campaign, Barack Obama provoked a media flurry and right-wing outrage over his comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." They told us that this view was contrary to the American Way, that this was socialism. Given all the concern ...

Joe The Plumber has a list of recommended books and the only non-plumbing volume is written by Ludwig von Mises ? How is it, exactly, that we were supposed to believe this guy was a swing voter?

For some reason The American Spectator asked Samuel Joseph "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher to contribute to its "books for Christmas" recommendations list. Joe recommends three (3) books on plumbing, including Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper , as well as this ...

By Ron Beasley I am talking about the Republican Party but I'm not talking about Joe The Plumber or even Joe Lieberman. No I'm talking about Senator Joe McCarthy. I have studied both the modern Republican Party and the Joe McCarthy witch hunt and never really connected the two but Neal ...

Note to Chris Matthews: when mocking someone for using a ghostwriter, it's best to avoid doing so on a day when Hillary Clinton is prominently in the news . . . On this evening's Hardball, Matthews went out of his way to mock Joe The Plumber for his use of a ghostwriter on his just-released ...

WE’RE ALL JOE THE PLUMBER: Widespread database abuse in Delaware. We’ve had similar problems in Tennessee.

From The Young Turks Nov. 26, 2008. I agree with Cenk. We're going to see Joe the Plumber doing a reality show before he finally goes away. And the McCain campaign is going to go down as one of the worst in history for relying on someone like guy this to keep their campaign alive.

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Sir Archy, our ghost commenter, pays us a Thanksgiving visit: To Professor Althouse . Dear Madam, As the Ghost of a Gentleman, dead these 260 Years and more, you may imagine the Tales of Adventure in untam'd Quarters of the Globe that I had read in my younger Days. In truth, my earliest ...

In case you aren’t aware, one of Dean’s World’s citizens, Jack Snyder, is a film director from my hometown of St. Louis. His movie, Ghost Image , will be showing on Showtime next month. It stars Elisabeth Röhm of Law & Order fame. Click here and here for showtimes.  ...