Presidential Election Debate, 10/15/2008

McCAIN: OK, what -- what would I cut? I would have, first of all, across-the-board spending freeze, OK? Some people say that's a hatchet. That's a hatchet, and then I would get out a scalpel, OK ( Read more... )

In light of our newly elected President Scott Brown of Massachusetts, various bloggers and even a couple of politicians have been trying to make sports analogies with regards to the health care "reform" bill that looks like it could be on death row. Some are trying to say "we're on the five yard line, we can't just give up now!" And others are like ( Read more... )

How sad is it that on the eve of the 5-4 decision in Citizens United vs. FEC that all I can think about are the following ( Read more... )

( Sorry, but I just HAD to use that tagline once. )

Sooooo much shit dumped upon us American liberals recently. Some of it little, some of it not so little. Some served with a smile, others with a passing hand-wave. But shit nonetheless.

Another step in the predictable-yet-disappointing kabuki theater of legislation has finally progressed: Old crotchety Joe Lieberman has extracted yet another scalp ( Read more... )

--To get the greatest summon monster, you will have to become an S-ranked chef in a pizza parlor mini-game ( Read more... )

Dr. Peter Watts, a Canadian sci-fi author, is looking at potential jail time in the US for the crime of brutally assaulting the fist of a US border-crossing agent with his own face after he was stopped at a US-Canada border crossing in Michigan. After all, he might have been scribbling terrorist plots in his new book, and some Al-Queda from the ( Read more... )

The folks at the Daily Kos blog, a bastion of Democratic support, are fretting over a recent poll (one that Kos himself commissioned pre-Thanksgiving) that suggests that enthusiasm for Democrats has declined pretty steeply compared to the evil Republicans. One front-page poster asks what can be done ( Read more... )

At least with regards to Call of Duty Modern Warfare II ( Read more... )

Too tired to say much coherent, but this article made me LOL.

The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing bankers with more pay doesn’t conflict with Christian values, he said. Varley was paid 1.08 million pounds ($1.77 million) and no bonus in 2008 ( Read more... )