It is hard to believe that the people voted in this election. You see the right pick up the largest swath of contested House races in modern history, at a time when the economy is as dead as it's been in our lifetimes, arguing a platform of tax cuts and deficit reduction (lies), and because none of it makes any sense at all, it's simply impossible ( Read more... )

Democrats can feel good about Colorado. Lost a few Blue Dogs in the House, for sure, but there's a lot to celebrate in keeping Ken Buck out of the US Senate, and who knows?--it's still possible Dan Maes's support drops under the 10% threshold. I guess at this point it isn't likely, but I think it's still possible, since most outstanding ballots are ( Read more... )

--From the essay, Secular Revival, by Warren Breckman

Surveying this global landscape of renewed public religion in 1999, Peter Berger, one of the greatest living sociologists of religion, concluded, “the assumption that we live in a secularized world is false. The world today, with some exceptions … is as furiously religious as it ever was, and in ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of November which means it is the last day before all hell breaks lose and it is the final breath of fresh air before the atmosphere's clouded with the noxious bloviating from the right, trumpeting their insurgent repudiation of things like re-investment in infrastructure, and teaching science in science class ( Read more... )

Thursday.

Thursday was an 8AM to 4PM shift, with a break of five hours before I had to go back to the office at 9PM for three hours of meetings. When I say the office, I still mean the grocery store. As always, it was a waste of time, and I went to bed more or less the second I got home, but I guess I probably didn't fall asleep until 12:30 or so. ( Read more... )

Mom and Grandma drove to South Carolina for the weekend to visit Uncle Doug and for a wedding in Kiawa. I've been in touch with them throughout the weekend, as Thursday was Grandma's birthday and so I at least had to call to wish her a good one. We spoke again this morning, because Mom wanted my advise on homemade pasta, etc., and so there's the ( Read more... )

A casual observer for my own mental health since the day Byron Dorgan chose to take the door. Boom. That was it. That was the slip. So far, the biggest momentum shifter in Obama's presidency, or the era, or whatever. The wind from my sails and everything--that was the early nightfall on the dream ( Read more... )

Grey skies and yellow leaves falling as winter watches us from atop cold peaks of desolation. A grocery list to utilize Kathleen's butternut squash; whites in the wash and drier; a few green and brown specs of Black Betty left in Maggie's deep bowl; Slavoj Zizek stammering and spitting on Amy Goodman's, weighing right-wing Europe against right-wing ( Read more... )

God bless America.




The air we breathes crystalizes with the anticipation of stupid's victory. We are on the precipice of a great crossroads; the tension is thick.
Go on and make your great belch face; have another whiskey. Shit's real.

Silver Surfer, take me away.

I could have rescued Democrats nationwide last night. I could have singlehandedly erased the enthusiasm gap. I could have singlehandedly smashed it to shit with a hammer and replaced it with an energized progressive base frothing at the mouth for a chance at the throats of Buck, Angle, O'Donnell, Paul, Miller, Rubio, DeMint, Toomey, Johnson, Raese ( Read more... )