John McCain is hilarious: 
At the GOP press conference, defeated presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona said that the health bill would add another $1 trillion on top of the debt already accumulated in the fight against the recession.

That would be an act of “generational theft,” said Senator McCain, in that it would burden future ( Read more... )

While I'm struck by the shallowness of the "Tea Party Protest", given the slogan, "Taxed Enough Already?" (T.E.A., ha.), what's really worrisome is the quote at the very end of this article - "We like the police".

With a few choice words, the author of the article has pointed to an element of the TEA protestors that staggers me - their problem is ( Read more... )

So I was checking out a Glen Greenwald article at Salon.com and a really important point was brought up, one that's sometimes difficult to articulate - whenever someone actually gets angry about an injustice in our society, and that anger challenges people's beliefs (a real Jeremiad, then), the person is dismissed, usually quite smugly, as "hot- ( Read more... )

Today, all the signs of Obama celebrations made me think of three things that kept me ruminating all day:

1 - Huzzah! We have a new president! But he's still the President of the United States. That means he's the Emperor. He's gonna be a much more compassionate, benevolent emperor than ones we've had in the past, but as much as I'm crazy about the ( Read more... )

It would seem to me that the following is the only useful bit of information one might derive from right-wing political ideology ( Read more... )

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/10/03/palinflow.jpg

Haha! Contempt!

Interesting. Thanks to itsabigrock for the link!

So, even though I probably have more important things to do than look up articles about everyone's favorite VP candidate, let alone *shudder* read and contribute to the comments section, I'm rather proud of my response to someone trotting out the Marxist Bogeyman.

Damn, ol' Karl wasn't kidding when he said there was "a specter haunting Europe". I ( Read more... )

Man. If years of working in a nuclear mutation-studies facility, and a recent adadictomy, hadn't made it literally impossible to do so, I would want to have, like, ten thousand of Jon Stewart's babies.
That sentence was awkward, but it amuses me.
It's really cute how, suddenly, the GOP can grok sexism. I mean, nevermind that they're all terrible ( Read more... )

I knew I liked Ben Stein. :)

"What McCain Could Do About Taxes
By BEN STEIN
Published: March 9, 2008

DEAR John McCain:

Congratulations. The nomination of the Grand Old Party is yours. Now comes the hard part, winning, and the almost impossible part, governing sensibly. Since you were, in your usual modest way, genial enough to acknowledge ( Read more... )