::: tosses confetti :::

marag has made My Very Favoritest Post on the subject.

Now for the rest of the USA to get with the program...

I am therefore not even remotely equipped to process the implications of the death of the "War on Terror" Boogeyman. I would like to think that it gets us closer to civilians no longer getting blown up and our troops coming home, but I am, as noted above, pre-caffeine, and therefore extra cynical ( Read more... )

I rarely post this sort of thing, because -- as you've probably figured out -- quite frankly I hate politics, and more specifically I hate discussing politics. But hardworking people in this country choose every day between necessary health care and financial solvency ( Read more... )

So Mike Huckabee -- about whom I'd previously formed a sort of vaguely disapproving opinion -- catapulted himself into my mental DO NOT WANT enclosure when I happened yesterday to catch this charming sound bite I'd managed to miss a few days before.

( Cut for embedded video and pernicious idiocy )

Okay, I had heard in passing about the whole France-deporting-scads-of-Roma thing, but what with all the mucus and the fever, world news was not high on my list of priorities the last couple days ( Read more... )

( Consequences of gay marriage )

( Behold the power of the internets. )

Status from a fellow former Bennett cheerleader of Hispanic heritage: If a cop stops me and says "papers" and I say "scissors" do I win??

This Reuters item came up at the top of my Gmail page just now, presumably as a result of you lot's responses to the last post.

Thousands of Indians, many fuming over a recent assault on women in a pub, are vowing to fill bars on Valentine's Day and send cartons of pink panties to a radical Hindu group that has branded outgoing females immoral.The ( Read more... )

The speeches are made, the ballrooms are cleaned up, and the new administration is underway. The call to service is ringing through the land. Time to roll up our sleeves and... argue about who bolluxed the oath of office and why? And whether the President is really President? (Yeah, that last one was on Fox News, but still.) Seriously? ( Read more... )