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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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San Francisco Values

By Matthew Yglesias

May 21 2008, 3:22 PM ET Comment

Given that you've got to assume essentially all House Democratic candidates can be linked easily enough the Nancy Pelosi, perhaps we'll see more of this:



I think this is a promising direction for the GOP, mainlining homophobia with no real fig leaf rationale or anything. Vote Democrat, and they'll turn your kids gay. If anything, they ought to camp this spot up some.

UPDATE: Okay, there's some suggestion here that the ad is supposed to be about miscegenation but if that's the case shouldn't they find a butcher, more scary-looking black guy? Plus everyone knows San Francisco = gay. Either way, I'm a bit saddened to see that "west coast liberals" seem to have overtaken "east coast liberals" in the conservative pantheon of ills. Doesn't sit well with my Greenwich Village values.

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