Will Thomas

HCR Summit

I caught about twenty minutes of today’s summit.  Two things:

1. The White House’s iPhone App is awesome.
2. Do Republicans have to do anything but look reasonable?  It seems taking a page from the Peggy Noonan playbook would be the most effective tactic to ensure that nothing changed between yesterday and tomorrow.

The Rules of Lent

If I haven’t mentioned it, I am giving up online political news for Lent.  God knows why I still do this.

The spirit behind “giving up political news” is to cease consuming news without restraint.  That said, it would overshoot the goal to willfully isolate myself from the general development in civil society.

Here are the rules, as I’ve determined them thus far.

1. Visiting the following bloggers/organizations is against the rules: TPM, HuffPo, Matt Yglesias, The Atlantic’s Voices, and Ezra Klein.
2. Anything in written form (ex.- newspapers, magazines) is permissible, as long as it is consumed in that medium (i.e.- no reading NYT online).
3. Any links sent to me through social media that don’t fall into these categories are acceptable.
4. As to (3), clicking through beyond the original link is not acceptable.

Borderline cases will be addressed as they arise, keeping in mind the spirit of the overall project.  Any thoughts about how this can be better tweaked would be appreciated.