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Articleman is doing the things an article can. What's he like? It's not important. But Articleman is a photographer, a Democrat, a lawyer, a cancer survivor, a guest Wednesdays at 8:05 am Pacific talking current events on www.krxa540.com, famously intolerant of anger for its own sake, a co-founder of dagblog, and like Bob Dole, just a man.

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Articleman's Twelve: Potpourri Smells Funny

by Articleman 2/23/2012 - 1:24 am   |

12.  Romney's inability to raise money from small donors shows the lack of enthusiasm for Romney, and will make it hard for Romney to compete in the fall except as a fairly obvious extension of the crowd that funds SuperPACs, because Romney is going to be broke when the campaign ends, and while Obama will have less cash than in 2008 to work with, Romney will have far less. [Read more]

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Nixing Racism: Jeremy Lin Gives Us a Teaching Moment, Along With Lots of Great Balling

by Articleman 2/19/2012 - 6:24 pm   |

I love basketball, so I love Jeremy Lin.  He's awesome.  I also love to write about basketball, so I was waiting until I had seen more of Lin's play to write a blog about his fascinating rise to celebrity status and into the upper echelon of NBA guards.  I was not waiting to blog about Lin until idiots thought it was cool to use the ugly and out-of-bounds racial slur "chink" in prepared text to refer to him.  Nonetheless, we have been exposed this week to ESPN making wordplay with this racist slur, and to boxer Floyd Mayweather and even columnist Jason Whitlock joining the racist foot-in-mouth comment club.  So before we get back to enjoying the Linsanity where it belongs, on the hardwood (where Lin scored 28 and dished out 14 assists in a nationally televised Knick win over the Mavericks today), let's recognize the teaching moment our culture suddenly finds itself in about the not widely paused upon subject of antiAsian racism. [Read more]

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Santorum Surge Journal: Republicans Move Closer To Nominating Generic AntiRomney

by Articleman 2/12/2012 - 7:10 pm   |

That darn Tea Party is at it again, by saying what it means and meaning what it says.  The February 7 Santorum trifecta, in which the AntiRomney du jour thumped Mitt Romney by 30 in Missouri, 27 in Minnesota, and 6 in substantially Mormon Colorado (wow), is more of what has been the primary point of this 2012 Republican nomination contest:  that the Tea Party wants what it considers a real conservative, and not Mitt Romney, to run against Barack Obama.  While I picked Newt Gingrich to win the Republican nomination because he was the last AntiRomney standing, my error was not in assessing the Tea voters.  It was in failing to notice that the Republican Party still had a viable AntiRomney to whom it could turn -- former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.  Santorum became the eleventh Republican to lead national primary polling during this election season when PPP's national poll released Friday read Rick 38, Mitt 23.  So can the Romney Inevitablists finally pipe down?  How wrong do you have to be before you see it? [Read more]

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The Dr. Houseman Column: Mitt Romney's Like the Wind

by Articleman 2/4/2012 - 7:41 pm   |

Dirty Dancing teaches us a lot.  Nobody puts Baby in a corner.  There is joy in the upstate New York summer camp experience.  Sometimes it is possible to hear the pop music of the distant future if you just break into dance during an emotionally charged moment in your upbringing.  Stuff like that.  But the deepest wisdom in this Kahlil Gibran-like wellspring of profundity came from Baby Houseman's dad, Dr. Houseman, when he apologized to Patrick Swayze's Johnny, who he had cruelly misjudged.  Taking back his incorrect assessment of rough-hewn Johnny's pure motives toward Baby, Dr. Houseman set a shining example for us all by saying, "When I'm roo-wawng, I say I'm roo-wawng." [Read more]

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Newt/RINO, or, The Physics of Tea

by Articleman 2/1/2012 - 1:22 am   |

One of my favorite Onion headlines is South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year.  As Homer Simpson once said, it's funny because it's true.  And there is a parallel truth in the failure of the Tea Party to control a party in which it seems to command a majority.  How does Mitt Romney, of Romneycare and abortion rights, win a Florida primary?  Because the Tea was strained into two cups -- a Newt, and a Rick.  With Establishment carpet bombs a-bombin', and Newt lacking any defenses against Air Romney, that was just enough.  The RINO beat the Newt.  [Read more]

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Articleman's Twelve: The Mostly Romney Edition

by Articleman 1/29/2012 - 9:17 pm   |

12. I need to get working on that Newt's-going-to-lose mea culpa (a/k/a The Dr. Houseman Column).  Before doing so, will have to write column explaining that Newt is still helping to re-elect Barack Obama.  It will rest on the recent WaPo polling showing that independents have now flipped from leaning Romney over Obama to leaning for Obama over Romney now that Romney is getting defined.  This, as much as the slow reduction in unemployment, is why Obama is just about even on approve/disapprove, which is bad news for Romney. [Read more]

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Gingrich's Steep Ascent Shows Tea Time Has Arrived

by Articleman 1/23/2012 - 1:07 am   |

I told you so.  Back in November, I posited that the primary lens through which one should view this Republican primary cycle was not as a contest among positive options, but as a contest among Romney and whoever was the most compelling alternative to Romney.  (You know, the AntiRomney.)  After Romney convincingly won his home state, I argued again in this space that if Gingrich remained in the teens nationally (which he did at all times), he would win South Carolina.  And now with Gingrich's resurgence through two debates and a decisive triumph in South Carolina, he is well poised to win Florida, and with it, assume the mantle of the front runner in the GOP race.  All of which shows that the Tea Party has taken control of the Republican Party, and also, that Barack Obama is likely to be re-elected nine months or so hence.  Why?  Three reasons: [Read more]

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Bulls Well-Positioned To Win It All in Weird Lockout Season

by Articleman 1/14/2012 - 5:52 pm   |

Three weeks into this weird, compacted four month NBA season, the experts who rated the Chicago Bulls less likely than the Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder, and even the Los Angeles Lakers to win the championship look pretty dumb.  The Bulls are 12-2 (and an eye-popping 7-2 on the road), and are easily the class of the league to this point.  Here's why the Bulls look like they are set to repeat as the best regular-season team, and have the best chance to win the 2012 NBA championship. [Read more]

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What Is Actually Wrong With the NDAA

by Articleman 1/2/2012 - 2:02 am   |

During the last month, there has been a lot said, written, and assumed about the National Defense Authorization Act that is either untrue or overstated.  There are several reasons for this.  One is that it's a law, and laws can be complex and ambiguous.  Another is that President Obama signed it, which means it triggers the automatic Obama Bad-Obama Good discussion.  The discussion about it to me largely misses the point, focusing too much on questions of citizenship, for example, and too much on scoring points for and against Obama. This blog presents my critique of the NDAA, which differs substantially from others you have likely read. [Read more]

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Articleman's 2011 in 21 Blogs

by Articleman 12/30/2011 - 9:15 pm   |

What a weird year.  I set out to write the blogging year through recaps of ten blogs that strung together what the year was to me (at least the year as concerns subjects about which I write), with further commentary on how those issues have played out and where they are.  So far so good, though it took way too long to write.  Unfortunately, like 2011 itself, my subject selection is all over the place.  As organizational fiat, I sorted my blogs and treatment of the year roughly by subject or blog-type:  Tucson Shooting (1); Politics (2-5); Law (6-8); 9/11 Forevermore (9-11); First Person Stuff (12-16); Fun (17-20); and Sports (21).  This was my blogging year that was. Thanks to all of you for all the great comment threads and for sharing it with us at dag. [Read more]

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