Thanks, Mister Huckabee, for making it all clear for us. It's not the gays who are getting bashed, it's the gays bashing the Christians! For real. For real! That's just one of the several ludicrous things he said in an interview last week ( Read more... )

For some reason, the embed code doesn't work, but hopefully the link does. Even though the worst language is bleeped, might want to open at work with caution.

We have a new president. For those who haven't been glued to the TV for the last few hours, Senator Obama won by what looks like a pretty significant margin.
(Memo to Mister Bush: now this is what a mandate looks like, not that squeaker you finagled four years ago.)I'm kind of overwhelmed, on a few levels ( Read more... )

( Not that I think anyone on my f-list needs to be coaxed into voting, but just in case... powerful video behind cut. )

And I'm killing time waiting for my stew to finish cooking. Yeah, I know it's late.

( A big chart from an online quiz, cut so it doesn't break anyone's friends page... they say I'm actually a socialist. Hmm... )

Okay, how awesome is it that Congress might actually kinda be growing a pair? I mean, granted, we don't know how this is going to end up, whether they're going to eventually cave on one of the important issues around this $700 billion bailout (like oversight, or assistance to people at risk for foreclosure, or the $2 million cap on executive level ( Read more... )

Sorry to the folks who are not US residents and/or allergic to politics, but I feel compelled to share this. (I suspect that most of you either already know this stuff or totally agree, but just in case...)

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Just how stupid are the ranks of the Republican party? Uh, this stupid.

For the linkaphobic, here's the highlight: "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat" reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001 ( Read more... )

Seems like a good day to reflect on a few things:

First, thank you France. Sure, the French helped us out for perhaps not the most respectable reasons. I think it was probably a lot less about supporting a radical new concept and doing the right thing, and more about an opportunity to weaken and embarrass a rival power, fight a war without having ( Read more... )

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"It must feel good to be dead certain about everything, but it's not a virtue. Especially when you're ALWAYS WRONG."