Off-topic: help a guy get his smile
on Nov 16, 2009 in Uncategorized Hey there. This has nothing to do with politics, but a friend of a friend needs your help. See, he took a horse kick to the grill a while back that destroyed his teeth and jaw. He’s got a few replacements, but the rest are busted up and rotting...

The oddity of the Ukraine flu
on Nov 16, 2009 in media pandemics swine flu For internet news junkies, the panic du jour is the Ukrainian flu outbreak. If you haven’t heard about it, you’ve been missing out. In the past two weeks, over a million people have gotten infected with the mystery flu, though with the od...

A new take on the Teabag phenomenon
on Nov 16, 2009 in FOX News Teabaggers conservatives media I think, on some level, we all have a similar presumption about the current wave of right-wing protesters. We see them as hypocrites, either willful or not. We see them as people who sat through eight years of Bush terrorizing, economic obliteration,...

Dobbs’ first post-CNN interview will be on FOX
on Nov 15, 2009 in Uncategorized Did I call that one or what?

Ruminations on “terrorism”
on Nov 15, 2009 in terrorism The aftermath of the Hasan tragedy has been a re-opened, and re-muddled, argument over what does and does not constitute “terrorism”. Unsurprisingly, this argument tends to be mostly fueled by right-leaning sources, because wielding the &...

Rumination
on Nov 15, 2009 in Uncategorized I wonder how many right-wingers actively hope that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad walks in his civilian trial, just to vindicate their hooting and howling.

Followup
on Nov 14, 2009 in Uncategorized Had to delete a bunch of comments, since I have those stored on IntenseDebate and it seems like the loss of posts was screwing up the indexing. Hopefully we’ll be all good now.

Hacked.
on Nov 14, 2009 in Uncategorized Site got hacked. I lost about four days of posts in the process. We’ll see what can get recovered, if anything.

Followup: no more abortions for RNC employees
on Nov 13, 2009 in abortion republicans I guess this was inevitable. As grand of an amusement it was that Republican party employees could have abortions paid for by their employer in the face of their tooth and nail fighting against… federal funds going toward abortions, there was a...

Note to the media:
on Nov 13, 2009 in Uncategorized I don’t care about Carrie whoever or that she stormed off the set of whatever she stormed off of. She’s a blond powder puff, and is in no way news.