A Wall Street Journal article, from someone outside the industry, that pretty much verifies what I said in my last friendslocked post.

Please--be educated about this. Learn as much as you can. And express yourself accordingly.

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If you need a little break from the "All Michael, All The Time" nonsense that is currently sucking up airtime on every bleedin' television station from coast to coast, and you need a bit of a giggle, go meander your mind over to Sarah Palin's Facebook page, and read what messages your fellow 'Merkins have written to Saint Sarah ( Read more... )

If I ever had designs on becoming a politician's wife, they have completely evaporated at this point ( Read more... )

As you may know, my parents have been very wary about the very idea of Barack Obama, and have been since the very beginning. I have tried to be reassuring and positive, that it was not the end of the world, that it wasn't the slippery slope to the Red Threat, that he was not, indeed, the Anti-Christ. While they have been filling their heads with ( Read more... )

When your governor alights his white horse and leads the entire state to secede, please know that you have a place here.

It's not quite as balmy as you're used to, but summer's coming and you'll have a few months to find a more habitable clime before the snow flies again.

Come on up!

We'll set up tents!

This morning, my brilliant niece (and I'm not being sarcastic here--she IS brilliant in almost every respect) posted a link on Facebook where some blogger on the Fox News website was decrying, once again, the rise of the Pinko Commie Fag-Loving folk in the Obama administration who are going to target "Right Wing Extremists" for surveillence and ( Read more... )

One of my friends on Facebook linked to a very interesting article this morning, to be found hereFor the click-phobic, the gist of the article is that the current economic shifts are not only big and life-changing, but they are inevitable. Not only will they change the way we look at the whole of our life as we know it, but they are the breaking of ( Read more... )

As you may know, I am a huge fan of The Mudflats blog, and its owner. It was through that website that I got an eyewitness albeit vicarious view into Alaskan politics, including an insider's eyeball at the wonder that is Sarah Palin. I have been a continuous reader of that blog since the VP nomination of the illustrious First Dude-ette of Alaska, ( Read more... )

People are looking at Wall Street crashing all around them, and banks failing, and every financial institution in America going BOOM, and everyone is screaming, "OH, it's OBAMA!! It's OBAMA that's doing this!!"

Well, can I tell you something?

It probably IS Obama doing this.

But the reason why all of these things are happening, in my not so ( Read more... )