Why I Am Hopeful For America

I want to talk about bullies.

Yes, we know that the GOP is run by and kept in power by bullies — from the blowhard at the business breakfast who, having listened to Limbaugh’s one-sided debates knows nothing of the give and take of civil discourse, and descends into repeatedly attacking you as subhuman, usually prefaced [...]

Politico’s Mike Allen, Superschmuck

A high level Bush “former aide” comes forward to Mike Allen to “emphatically” rebut Scott McClellan, when we know that a White House smear and discredit campaign is underway. Gee, why does that sound familiar?
Oh yeah. I TOLD you on December 31 how the same modus operandi showed its Medusa’s face in the “Giuliani used [...]

Liars Label Liar’s Liar a Liar for Leaking Lying Liars’ Lies

From the BBC

Rice defends Bush over Iraq claim

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has rejected claims from a former White House press aide that President George W Bush misled the US over the Iraq war.
Ms Rice refused to comment directly on the book by Scott McClellan but said Mr Bush had been “very clear” about [...]

A Tale of Two (Half) Witties — REVISED

It’s rare that you get the nocturnal and diurnal Republican anvil chorus in a double-header, but yesterday was a masterwork of shame to the shameless.
Once upon a time …

Part i. In Which Doris Gets Her Oats
Are they KIDDING us? For the past two days, Memeorandum has been in a Genuflecting to Oligarch Pedophiles’ [...]

A Tale of Two (Half) Witties

There were errors and omissions. These have been corrected. Please see the REVISED post, entitled, eerily enough: “A Tale of Two (Half) Witties — REVISED.“
“Keep, ancient hands, your storied pap!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your cash-poor,
Your humbug’d crasses yearning to be tax-free,
The wretched richies of your teeming store.
Send these, the debenture [...]

The Internets Is Clogged

According to Senator Ted Stevens (Idiot, AK):
… the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s [...]

Happy Decoration Day!

It is Memorial Day. Originally, it was Decoration Day. From Memorial Day dot org:
… it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860’s tapped [...]

Hillary and The First Rule of Holes

Go ahead: misconstrue the title. What I’m talking about is this:
When you realize you’re in a hole, STOP DIGGING!!!

This is known as “The First Rule of Holes” in politics, and Hillary seems NOT to understand it in the least.
“We do have a saying in America: if you’re in a hole, stop digging … erm, I’m [...]

Hillary, Precognitively

Don’t ask me: I didn’t MEAN to roll out of bed at four o’clock yesterday morning with a fever-dream imperative saying: YOU HAVE TO WRITE THIS … NOW! I didn’t mean to write a 5,002 word post delineating the collapse of the Clinton campaign.

And I sure as heck didn’t mean to inadvertently prefigure the whole [...]

How Brazen Was My Hussy

How well I remember it: when the alarms sounded, and the great whistle blew. Everyone knew what that soul-chilling blast meant — there had been a cave-in at the mine. Everyone in the little town of Truthiness knew the cold dread that gripped our hearts, then …
(From the imaginary 1941 MGM film, “How Brazen Was [...]

Too Much Yak

The sheer volume (in both senses) of political madness (don’t act dumb: you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about) sloughing from the earwaves into the soul of a badly soundbitten body politic mitigates against any medical advice from me. Best for the patient to get some rest and try to sweat the poisons out of [...]