A Moment for the White Guy

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the utter absence of John Edwards from the media during the month of January was due to the “sideshow” issues of First Black, First Woman, First Hispanic, Insurgent Libertarian candidates. Perhaps, to be naively charitable, there wasn’t much that John Edwards could do that was “newsworthy” to [...]

Now That Edwards Is Out

Regular readers of this blog will recall that I declared my support for John Edwards on January 1, BEFORE Iowa (just so’s you’d know the choice was made without reference to polling, etc.) Edwards dropped out today, and I need a little time to digest the implications before shooting off my big mouth (unlike [...]

Hillary v. Mitt

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It looks as though Mitt Romney finally has competition in the sweepstakes to see who is the spinmeister — in this case, spinmeistress — to whom reality means the least.

How NOW, Angry Cow?

Marcia Pappas is pissed off. She’s pissed off at John Kerry:
Psychological Gang Bang of Hillary is Proof We Need a Woman President
January 11, 2008
by Marcia Pappas, President NOW - New York State
We’ve all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, [...]

Welcome To The Future

One of the signal ironies of the Twenty-First Century (and the last quarter of the XXth) is that grinning morons on the tube dismiss odd stories out of the bounds of “normal” — that strange place that doesn’t actually exist, since, as any good reporter knows, history is compounded of equal parts weird and bizarre, [...]

In Which I Force Harlan Ellison to Work for FREE

From an upcoming documentary about that guy the proprietors and employees of Dangerous Visions Bookstore on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks (alas, R.I.P.) used to call “The angry old man up on the Hill.” If you’re having trouble seeing it, you could go HERE.*

Our Criminal Congress

Why should we be part of a force going into a country where there has been complete lawlessness? Why should we put the lives of our soldiers on the line in order to restore order in a country where there is none?
– Judy Woodruff, CNN talking head
Lawlessness, already endemic, is worsening amid uncertainties concerning command [...]

On Behalf of Al Gore: Screw You, Bozo

The sea this ship floated in is now many miles away
I got an email request today from a close friend, who wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 5:59 PM, PSEUDONYMOUS wrote:
Can you poke holes into this argument?
[URL expunged, see blog below]

I think you might want to listen to this argument. What choice do you [...]

Reporting On Bias

Before the AP article on lying by the Bushies to get us into war, and the inevitable, idiotic Republican smear of invoking “Soros” as a universal panacea against the evil eye, cuckolding and shooting people in the face, I direct your attention to the following piece of biased, unprofessional “real” journalism, courtesy of Ron Fournier [...]

Magic 8-Ball: Unclear, Try Again

 

Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. See HERE.
 
 

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