To those who have seen him live, he is pure genius: a comedian who, as he says, works at a hectic speed of "seven tpm" (seven titters per minute) and leaves you helpless with laughter.
At one point Tony Jones and friends were clocking in at 650 tpm (that's "tweets per minute"to you – the worst measurement system in human history).
(tpm) Michelle Obama in her convention speech doubled that to 28,000 – and Barack Obama then took it up to 54,000tpm.
Nowadays this object is conceived as a tensor field of rank 4, which assigns to each point P in a Riemannian n-manifold a 4-linear function on the tangent space TPM.
Uhh... 12.55pm: Here's more dire soothsaying from CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (video via TPM): This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," he said.
Plus: Nostalgia at the V&A needs a personal playlist and Rh-app-sody for the iPad Bi-Curious Me, Channel 4 Plus: OMG –WTF is this TPM thing?
The Padme we meet in TPM is strong-willed and clever.
But by today, as TPM noted, even Rush Limbaugh, who'd talked up Massa's story, was calling him a "legitimate kook".
I rely on a lot of blogs — TPM, all the CAP blogs (Yglesias, ThinkProgress, etc)., Sullivan's "Daily Dish" and other Atlantic blogs, NPR, Politico (though it has to be taken in small doses to avoid toxic effects), MSNBC (especially Matthews and Maddow), TAPped, TNR (including Chait)… that's just a sampling.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet TPM's Josh Marshall is right: political analysts often overrate messaging, and campaigning generally.
