I don't know whether I should kiss Eliot Spitzer on the mouth or kick him in the shins for effectively torpedoing his campaign.

It's totally awesome, but. Boy, I don't know.

Call me cynical, but I find it hard to believe that the release of those pictures of the Pentagon from 9/11 and the fact that it comes 24 hours after Bush announces the near-militarization of our southern border is an innocent coincidence.

I got as far as "a free and sovereign Iraq" before I changed the channel to Law & Order. Maybe if enough people turn off the State of the Union, Bush will get cancelled? I used to subject myself to George W. Bush despite the desire to stab myself repeatedly in the eye because I thought it made me a "good American," but... uhhh... I'm not that big ( Read more... )

You know, as outrageous and appalling this proposed law is... let's think about this, here. Is this honestly going to pass? Honestly? I wouldn't be half-surprised if crazy shit like this gets proposed every single freaking day. It just so happens that a blog caught one such proposal ( Read more... )

(a revised edition of an earlier rant, now with more facts and more control.)

I think that it's an odd sort of coincidence that Massachusett's first day of legal same-sex marriages falls on the fiftith anniversary of Brown v. Board of Ed., a landmark decision that struck done racial segregation. You would think that, after fifty years, America ( Read more... )

(In my own defense, I'm only writing here instead of studying because I've been dishing politics since 8AM and Atrios doesn't help matters ( Read more... )