Much of Mike Huckabee’s campaign is built around his good guy persona: He plays bass guitar, makes jokes about Jesus and lost a lot of weight. That, along with his appeal to homophobic swing state voters, is what’s keeping his campaign going despite all the evidence that John McCain will ultimately win the Republican nomination.
That’s not much to work with, and the Huckabee camp just got dealt what could be a fatal blow. Boston founder and author of “More Than a Feeling” Tom Scholz has asked Huckabee to stop performing the song:
While I'm flattered that you are fond of my song, I'm shocked that you would use it and the name Boston to promote yourself without my consent. Your campaign's use of 'More Than a Feeling,' coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member 'of Boston' clearly implies that the band Boston, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.
Scholz isn't the only musician who doesn't want his songs used by GOP machine; John Mellencamp made the same request to John McCain, who played Chevy ad staple “Our Country” at rallies.
And ultimately, if Scholz has more than a feeling about anyone, it’s Barack Obama. And his wife is kind of fine, too.
Unless you’re some weird form of pagan and believe there are only 10 months in a year, The Atlantic Monthly hasn’t been a monthly in some time. So from now on, it’ll just be The Atlantic, thank you very much.
And unless you’re ugly and smart, there’s no point in living in D.C. So The Atlantic has decided to re-move its sales and marketing to New York. Maybe they’ll stick in this city. New York rules.
For a magazine that just moved from Boston to Washington, New York seems like an odd location for The Atlantic’s 150th Anniversary party. But as Andrew Sullivan says, “You can’t have a party unless it’s in New York.”
Fair enough. But that doesn’t explain The Atlantic’s venue choice: a theater in the village. With a full audience, the party was one-part open bar, one-part performance piece. While we drank, we couldn’t help but feel bad for The Atlantic fans in the crowd who had to watch a New York magazine photographer take pictures of Jared Kushner. The New Yorker festival seemed modest by comparison.
The Atlantic moved to D.C. two years ago, and Boston still isn't over it.
The relocation was part of a larger initiative to give The Atlantic a broader appeal. The magazine has become less theoretical and literary—no more David Foster Wallace covers or monthly short stories—and more concerned with politics and business.
The result, according to Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix, is a magazine with Newsweek-esque covers and enough info-graphs to rival U.S. News & World Report.
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