The Sundries Shack

Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004.
  • The Rookie’s Rough Guide to CPAC 2012
    (This is the third iteration of the Rookie’s Rough Guide to CPAC. You can get the original version here and last year’s revision here. You’ll notice quite a few similarities, but also some useful differences as well.) If you’re a conservative, and haven’t been living in a dank cave far from a WiFi signal, you [...]

  • The Delivery Presents – Robert Davi on Music and Why the Good Stuff is Important
    If you want to know why I love social media, look no farther than Episode 132. Without Twitter, it could not have happened and here’s why. A couple of months ago, I had a brief exchange with actor, director, and musician Robert Davi about his new album Davi Sings Sinatra: On the Road to Romance. [...]

  • President Obama: The State of the Union is…Hey! Get Back in Line, You!
    I admit, I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address. I rarely watch big Presidential speeches live; I get a far better sense of the speech when I wait a little bit and read the full text (and you can get that text from the peerless Andrew Malcolm here). I’m glad I read [...]

  • Let Us Talk of Asses and Associates
    If we can judge Mitt Romney by the gang of Republicans who couldn't be bothered to lift a finger over the past three years to so much as slow down Barack Obama's progressive rampage but suddenly find themselves possessed with boundless energy to cast Newt Gingrich as the Greatest Villain of Our Time, then we can surely judge Gingrich by them as well.

  • The Delivery Presents – The Big Health Care Number and What is Cool.
    For Episode 131, I turned to one of the smartest and coolest people I know — Ben Domenech of the Coffee and Markets podcast, among other places — to join me for the entire show. I won’t even begin to describe everything you’ll get in the whole hour, but I’ll give you two little tidbits. [...]

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, I Might Just Have a Conservative Star for You.
    I believe I have seen the future of Maryland politics and his name is Dan Bongino. He is a former Secret Service agent and New York City police officer, husband to a wife who legally emigrated from Colombia, and he’s running for the United States Senate seat currently held by Ben Cardin. My friend Jim [...]

  • The Delivery Presents – The Show in Which I Wade Into High Finance
    By now, you know from listening to the show that I can get a little bit excitable, and that oftentimes that excitability comes out against those who would be my political allies. That happened again in Episode 130. I’ve seen a lot of blog posts and news articles about the housing and credit crisis, but [...]

  • Newsweek’s Horrible Unlife As a Propaganda Rag Continues
    When I first saw this, I swore to myself it had to be some sort of Photoshopped spoof. It’s not, though. This is a real tweet from the official Newsweek Twitter account. And this is the picture behind that link. Great, huh? I remember when the magazine was respectable, when its editors and authors had [...]