Grateful Dead

We may be going to Hell in a Bucket, but at least we’re enjoying the ride. Some of it, anyway.

To all our friends

I’d like to thank the following people for the wonderful year that has been 2008: WordPress.  Without you, we wouldn’t be here.  You gave us shelter from a storm.  You value a freedom of expression and have made this a very user friendly place to be.  Without you, we might have been forced to go [...]

My New Year’s Prediction: They Will Never Defeat Her – Or Us

Remember how the frustrated Obama bloggers and the corporate media were screaming “Why Won’t That Stupid Bitch Quit” after Super Tuesday, claiming that Hillary was merely staying in the race for some strange, evil, stalker-ish reason? She was like Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction” to some, a racist who was trying to stand in the [...]

New Year’s Eve 2008: The year in pictures

Here is the photo that says it all:  The August 25 protest that PUMA did in front of the MSNBC kiosk in Denver.  We literally drowned out the wimpy assed Obamaphiles who were milling around and jeered Chris Matthews when he showed up on the set.  Harriet Christian is holding up the big sign.  She [...]

Can someone please explain this?

This is from the New Yorker article “Making It” by Ryan Lizza: Obama has always had a healthy understanding of the reaction he elicits in others, and he learned to use it to his advantage a very long time ago. Marty Nesbitt remembers Obama’s utter calm the day he gave his celebrated speech at the [...]

Barack Obama; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the rest of us

[A slightly different version of this post appears at Heidi Li's Potpourri.] I was asked today if I did not think I should be happy about President-elect Obama’s election because he will be our first black president. My questioner was somebody who clearly is happy about President-elect Obama’s presidency for precisely this reason. According to [...]

Repost: Interview With Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Part I

Our lovely blogmother, Riverdaughter, has requested that I repost this interview with one of the possible contenders for Hillary Clinton’s Senate Seat, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Doesn’t this woman seem just an eensy, weensy bit more qualified than Princess Caroline? You Said It, Sister! And speaking of “uneducated old women…” The following is Part I of [...]

A Wrench in the Kennedy Machine

Hillary is 44 is following the labyrinthine maze that is the Caroline Kennedy for Senate campaign in NY and has turned up some very interesting connections.  Like, does anyone know why Charles O’Byrne, Gov. Paterson’s former right hand man, resigned about a week before the November election? And who recently paid O’Byrne’s enormous back tax [...]

Tuesday: Liberal Great Expectations

Jesse Jackson Sr. wrote a somewhat cryptic column in the Chicago Sun-Times today called Who Will Speak for America’s Poor?.  He gems nicely with the sentiments of Paul Krugman, who yesterday wrote in Fifty Herbert Hoovers, that one of the best ways of stimulating the economy is to start at the state level and keep [...]

The Confluence nominated as Best Liberal Blog

Check it out. Thank you, Riverdaughter, for creating a community that has earned this recognition.