Corrections Department

The Esteemed John Cole inadvertently misspeaks today in Balloon Juice, when he writes:
Make Her Go Away
… Queue the Hillbots to tell me this is just an anonymous smear against Hillary.
Whoops!
A “queue” is a line that you’re waiting IN.
A “cue” is a line that you’re waiting FOR.
Glad we could clear that up.
Cue the music. If you’d [...]

Bill Buckley in Hell

Since, as we know, Astrology™ is demonically inspired, nothing could be more apropos to analysis of William F. Buckley’s death vis a vis cycles of Pluto, named after the lord of the Underworld. (Or, Hell, where he undoubtedly is at this very moment.)

As regular readers know, the “mission statement” of this blog has always been [...]

Hillary Wins Friends & Influences People

How To NOT Get Elected 101: When you open a debate, make sure you hurl childish and immature accusations in a whiny, paranoid and kindergarten manner.

Anybody Seen A White Whale?

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If Candidates Were Telephones

John McCain

Ralph Nader, Our New Harold Stassen

Why won’t he go away and leave decent people alone?
In the least surprising, most pathetic development of the 2008 campaign season, fading contrarian whore Ralph Nader — the best friend that “corporatists” ever had — has entered the presidential sweepstakes, determined to help John McCain get elected.
Fellow holier-than-thou contrarians Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey Sinclair of [...]

Suppose They Launched a Swiftboat and Couldn’t Make it Float

The swiftboating of Obama has been the blood sport of the week.
Disgustapating, to quote Popeye.
What’s worst of all? It’s all TRIVIAL BULLSHIT.
Not a substantive argument in a truckload. Just a lot of minor, petty, Pecksniffian bullshit.

ABC Blog Censors Obama’s Accomplishments

I happened to make a comment on an ABC blog, by alleged ‘reporter’ Jake Tapper, who was whining about how Obama started talking Tuesday before Hillary was done (hint: for the second straight week, she ignored the primary altogether, in which case the tradition of letting the loser make their concession speech pretty much [...]

Sick.

102° fever.
Sick.

The Day The Radio Died

A long, long time ago…
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember [...]

On, Wisconsin!

LIVE!
It is astonishing to me that, as I have watched McCain and now Clinton’s speeches, that I am gripped with an intense sense of déjà vu.