Friendly reminder - when you see that "politics" tag like the one in my subject line, you might want to keep in mind that I'm a Democrat and bleeding heart liberal, and that if you are neither it might be best for your blood pressure if you scrolled on past ( Read more... )

- Ugh, is it November yet? Honestly, Facebook for me is becoming what the HP Fandom was in the fall of 2004. A really uncomfortable place to be, and you wish there was a way to just filter out all the political stuff so that you could still be friends with your friends. Or still look your family members in the face at Thanksgiving. (While I'd love ( Read more... )

I have nothing to add to this, except LOLOL FOREVER. Oh, Jon Stewart, could I love you more?

(Can't get the thing to embed so here is the link.)

Um, what.

The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a ( Read more... )

I just can't quite believe it's all over and that Obama has really been elected. I'm seeing his face all over the papers this morning, and every time I do, I do a double take and then burst into a huge grin that borders on joyous tears. Because I keep having to remind myself that there are no obstacles left and that we really (and pretty ( Read more... )

Let's see if I can do this while working on my movie post for the day. *doesn't count on it*

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Found on DKos, who found it at The Page.

Sarah Silverman has made a video to, basically, suggest to Jewish kids that they should go visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama. This campaign is being called The Great Schlep. It is flipping hysterical.

Click here for much hilarity. (WARNING: This is Sarah Silverman, ( Read more... )

Aaron Sorkin imagines a dream sequence where Obama asks Jed Bartlett for advice.

And that alone would have been enough for me to love him. But I couldn't help noticing (because it's one of my favorite plays and films) that Sorkin tweaked two lines from The Lion in Winter in Bartlett's lines. One from King Henry II (Peter O'Toole in the film) and ( Read more... )

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