Stagnance: Addendum
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaFurther and final note on the sliver of America voting redder than ever:
Half of McCain voters believe Obama is or was Muslim, with 31.7% saying “He used to be Muslim and still has too many connections to Islam.”
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Stagnance unto Death
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentA few fascinating data points on the Times’s demographic comparison of counties that went deeper red vs counties that went deeper blue in 2008 vs 2004. (Please click on the Voter Shift Multimedia Graphic for a frame of reference.)
Not surprising that the strip of deeper red is in the white rural south, but a [...]
O! Omaha! Obama!
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis is me celebrating the Nebraska electoral vote for Obama in my official “Big O!” Omaha mug.
(Peet’s Darjeeling for those scoring at home)
Read More..>>Update in the Global War on Terror
Posted on October 22, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis week the US has abandoned its pursuit of criminal charges against eleven Gitmo detainees despite “plenty of evidence to convict all of them” because of the Bush Administration’s pig-headed efforts to abandon all appearances of deference to the rule of law. That is, because “there were systemic problems with the fairness of the [...]
Read More..>>the only person who can claim she has worked regularly with both Chuck D and Pat Buchanan
Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWe had set our alarm to Air America’s first drive-time talk show, Morning Sedition, in part out of obligation to a friend who produced it, but, in time, because it was a very funny show that allowed us to share the wrath as the 2004 elections approached.
We were more than a little upset [...]
Fox News–Something Fishy is Going On…
Posted on September 15, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI wouldn’t call it a guilty pleasure–I generally wince in pain at the bloviating ad hominems–but on occasion I will check in on Fox News to see just what garbage they’re spewing these days. Last night was one such occasion.
What I noticed caught me a bit off-guard. There was a story on the [...]
Yes, so I’m reading Zinn now
Posted on July 3, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSo said a lanky junior Illinois congressman about the war not started on his watch:
The declaration that we have always opposed the war, is true or false accordingly as one may understand the term ” opposing the war.” If to say ” the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President,” be opposing the [...]
Next stop, Gay Marriage
Posted on June 13, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe nomination of Justice Roberts to the Supreme Court is the only respectable exercise of executive power this millenium that comes to my mind this Friday morning. An unapologetic right-winger, perhaps, but an intelligent, thoughtful man who genuinely believes in upholding the rule of law.
I stood by him in the nomination process [...]
Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAnyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV [...]
Read More..>>Joe Posnanski talks politics….
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentin an Andy Rooney kind of way1 (after reminiscing about Ambiorix Burgos, and pondering Gil Meche’s place in this crazy, mixed up world):
You know who has a lot of friends? John McCain. Have you noticed that? And no, I’m not talking about any of the recent talk. I’m saying that everywhere he goes, he keeps [...]
john.he.is
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
Read More..>>Peter, Paul
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPenny Wise
Dollar Dumb
election
Posted on January 20, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment{via LawGeek}
Read More..>>It’s Ok to Get Angry
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe luxury of living in a deeply blue state whose primaries are held on Super Tuesday is that I can easily moderate the intake of political news and am left blissfully unaware of the product of Mitt’s obscene spending. The downside is that, where the inundated masses in New Hampshire can be forced into [...]
Read More..>>Huckabee is a dirty toenail
Posted on January 4, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentObama is a stalk of wheat
Romney is a dimestore comb
Hillary is a toasting marshmallow
Edwards is a daffodil
Rudy is a damp cigarette butt
Richardson is a saddle bag
McCain is a chicken bone
I May Have To Re-Think I.O.W.A.
Posted on January 3, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentNo longer Idiots Out Wandering Around?
Read More..>>If Bill O’Reilly were a rapper
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment…you know he’d go by “B. Ill”. Jay gives us a sample of his hypothetical flow.
Makes me want to listen [MP3] to The Coup doing the same1 with David Rockefeller, JP Getty and Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Davey D has David Banner, Master P., and Mike Dyson’s opening comments on the hill.
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guess we’re still talking [...]
Lousy Democrats
Posted on September 18, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentToday’s Times provides some tasty tidbits – some might even say non sequiturs – on the margins of Dr. Jonathan Haidt’s (pronounced height) theory of the evolution of innate moral principles.
“Imagine visiting a town,†Dr. Haidt writes, “where people wear no clothes, never bathe, have sex ‘doggie style’ in public, and eat raw meat by [...]
What are we talking bout?
Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsFrank Zappa’s talking about words.
via (wordie:errata)
cue the obligatory Allen Iverson.
I never read that book before, but I still get the metaphor
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTo piggyback Dave, I point thee toward the sage Rake who posits: “perhaps the problem with Lennie Small is not that he failed in hugging Curley’s wife, but rather that he let go too soon.”
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