1.  Dan Lipinski is a bad Catholic who couldn't give a shit about helping the poor and the friendless, who disses nuns, and is arrogant besides (arrogant being the opposite of humble, just in case you thought I was veering off the religious theme).  He is also a bad Democrat and should be kicked out of the party.  He also hates women, and doesn't ( Read more... )

Well, that's over.  I watched some with a friend -- we went out to dinner first, and so missed the first half.   We turned on the radio in the car on the way to her house to watch ... and John McCain was speaking and I had to turn the radio off.  I am not a good debate watcher: I am so partisan I just can't stand it.  Its worse than watching a ( Read more... )

I think the big difference between the current depression and the Great Depression is that in the Great Depression -- at least, in the mythology of the Great Depression -- when large banks failed, when large companies failed, when stockbrokers went belly-up, their chief executives felt a sense of shame and threw themselves out of windows.  I have a ( Read more... )

So the telecoms and George W. Bush keep trying to push a terrible bill through Congress, and everytime there are enough Congress critters who are beholden to one or the other and amenable to a little arm-twisting and willing to vote for this travesty that subverts the Constitution in a big way.  So far Feingold and Dodd and a few others have stood ( Read more... )

Last night Barack Obama sewed up the Democratic nomination.  Its an event that fills me with hope for the future of this country -- replacing the real fear of 7 years of Bush/Cheney.  The damage to this country has been vast: basic democratic principles have been violated with such abandon and with such a lack of repercussions that the country has ( Read more... )

Nothing exciting to write about tonight.  Just blew off the entire evening.  Well, grocery shopping needed to happen.  So beyond shopping, putting away food and clean dishes, cooking dinner ... nothing.  I got nothing ( Read more... )