I was checking some videos on the Huffington Post when I came across this- Rachael Maddow Reponds to Lou Dobbs...The headline on this clip is a bit misleading. Not that it doesn't cover her reaction to Dobbs (& I'm also pretty sure a woman lacks the required anatomy "tea-bagging" queen) but it's only the intro in the video. The really interesting ( Read more... )

OK, up to my ass in annealed bronze & trying to get way too much stuff done in too short a time (commission due, Arts & Drafts fest this weekend) but I just can't let this one go without comment.

Seems Bill O'Reily thinks it's "fair & balanced reporting" for his producer to stalk a woman when she goes on vacation for the weekend when he doesn't ( Read more... )

Words fail to convey the depths of my disgust with this.

Catholic Church Excommunicates Mother & Doctors of 9-Year-Old Rape VictimApparently, the only reason they didn't excommunicate the girl as well is because she's a minor. No, really. Meanwhile, Stepdaddy Dearest is emphatically *not* excommunicated-- because he "didn't murder anyone ( Read more... )

I think this is a very good sign of the coming years:

One of Obama's First Acts as President is to put Bush's 11th hour regulartions on hold "pending review"I wish the article listed some of the regulations or at least gave a time frame but I think it's safe to assume it covers all the really recent ones, like the Shrub's most recent attempt to ( Read more... )

I can not describe the joy I feel right now. Finally *finally* FINALLY I've got my country back! It's amazing. I feel such *hope*, such *exuberance*. The majority of us found our brains again & started using them & that's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Still, it's a cautious hope-- I believed in Bill Clinton, too & he didn't really live up to all ( Read more... )

*LOTS* of Fat Elephants on a plane. I think I've mentioned that the place I work at is in the airport complex. As it happens, we're right by the "private charted flights" area. So, today we got to do a bit of Palin-spotting after lunch because her plane was on the tarmack about 50 yards away. If I'd known she was flying in, I would have put a ( Read more... )

I want to make myself a t-shirt. The problem is that I can't decide if I want it to say "Fake American", "Unreal American", or "Surreal American". So I think a poll is in order.

Poll What Kind of Anti-American Am I?

OK, other than discovering that I'm not a "real" American (and apparently don't work for a living, either), life has been going fairly well these days. When I'm ( Read more... )

What do you know, it turns out that the mastermind behind the McClueless campaign isn't some Rove-idolizing neo-con... it's actually a rather older con in a funny hat....

I'm amused & disturbed all at the same time. Reality should not be a parody of the campiest tv show ever aired.

Interestingly, it seems like I may have been channeling ( Read more... )

Note to the Fat Elephants & Right-wing Wingnuts-- Liberals are Americans, too, damn it ( Read more... )

These are my two favorite recent election pieces:

The Repub's long-standing technique of demonizing their opponents is suddenly not working.
So what if he's a terrorist, I'm voting for him anyway... The original story from Repub Pundit Ben Smith at Politico is here.. It makes me laugh because, first of all, the smear campaign isn't actually true ( Read more... )