Baghdad in NPR's parallel universe
powerlineblog.com 3/12/2009 — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in prison. The sentence seems harsh to me (a fine might have been sufficient), but I'm the last person who would presume to judge a great Arab culture.  ...

Parallel Lives, Parallel Deaths
rhymeswithright.mu.nu 3/24/2009 — Such a waste of the life of a talented man. Nicholas Hughes, the son of Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, killed himself at his home in Alaska, nearly a half-century after his mother and stepmother took...

“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives."
althouse.blogspot.com 10/22/2008 — I'm just watching this video after watching "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" on "Nova": As one of the commenters over at YouTube says "Can we all agree that that is the BEST performance ever from a carrot in a music video?" Here 's a review of the documentary: MARK OLIVER EVERETT does not ...

Parallel Universe: McCain Motorcade, ‘W.’ Premiere
blogs.wsj.com 10/17/2008 — Laura Meckler reports from New York City on the presidential race. Sen. John McCain can’t catch a break. As he exited his hotel in New York City en route to a fund-raiser, the GOP presidential hopeful found his motorcade was lined up right ...

There is no parallel
washingtonmonthly.com 10/28/2008 — THERE IS NO PARALLEL.... Though it's unclear how close they were to executing their plot, two young white supremacists were arrested in Tennessee yesterday, in advance of an alleged plan to assassinate Barack Obama and murder 102 African-American ...

An alternate universe
washingtonmonthly.com 1/10/2009 — AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.... It's a close contest, to be sure, but I'd argue that of the various sycophant hacks still singing George W. Bush's praises, none is quite as embarrassing as Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard editor and Fox News...

More stimulus notes
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 1/8/2009 — Mind the gap 1. The new CBO budget and economic outlook is out. Above is its forecast for the GDP gap - the hole stimulus has to fill. I'd guess that the CBO estimate, which has unemployment averaging 8.3 percent in 2009 and 9 percent in 2010, is ...

Hanson: Parallel Lives
article.nationalreview.com 12/5/2008 — The medias scandalous double standards illustrate that exalted liberal ends indemnify felonious and hypocritical means.

Meanwhile, in an alternative universe
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/5/2008 — Known as the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character ...

Parallel lives of the Democrats and Republicans, part 2
powerlineblog.com 12/8/2008 — On Friday we noted Victor Davis Hanson's superb column on the parallel lives of the Democrats and Republicans. Professor Hanson employed Plutarch's method to "learn something about modern morality from the contrasts within a few matched pairs of ...