This is too good to pass up, Jon Stewart taking on Rick Santelli.

I love how it builds up and up until the final... well, see for yourself:

I know I've been remiss in posting for... well, months... but J just sent me this parody of the Whassssup Budweiser ads--apparently done by the same people--and it's too good to pass up:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Wassup 2008 from qg-writer on Vimeo.

When you can't pluck any random Muslim off the streets of any foreign country and keep them in prison in eternal legal limbo without any trial to prove their guilt, then the terrorists have won ( Read more... )

Four messages on my answering machine this afternoon from Hillary ( Read more... )

Well, for me anyway ( Read more... )

In the past three days, two recorded phone calls, two paper mailings ( Read more... )

Following up on my "Indecision 2008" (thank you, Jon Stewart).

It seems to be conventional wisdom that Barack is somewhat more liberal than Hillary, and according to the polls, Barack gets more support amongst Democrats who are particularly to the left.

However, an All Things Considered piece yesterday said that Hillary was actually slightly to ( Read more... )

OK, in less than eight days I have to cast my vote in the SuperDuper Tuesday Primary ( Read more... )

Speaking of Juno--which I was last week--Wanda Franz, president of The National Right to Life Committee says this about it in the latest EW: "So many mainstream movies have made the fact that you might get pregnant an afterthought. Any time you emphasize that there are consequences, you have a pro-life message."

Consequences???? An unwanted ( Read more... )

OK, so it's not 96 degrees, but for Boston on January 8th it's a new record ( Read more... )