Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Penn gets $7 million for latest bomb

That refers not to the talented (though intensely irritating) Sean Penn but rather to the untalented (and similarly intensely irritating) Mark Penn, also known as the guy with a seeming fetish for "archery moms" and the guy who torpedoed Hillary Clinton's campaign. This Wonkette piece is worth checking out:
Tragically misunderstood Mark Penn might seem like an unctuous creep whose “microtrends” strategy is the lamest pop-culture approach to statistics since The Tipping Point. But that’s only half the story.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.