Senator Diane Feinstein says that Roland Burris’ Appointment is Legitimate

Fox News Reports: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee that soon could take up Burris’ case, said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has the right to appoint a senator despite the allegations of corruption against him. “Does the governor have the power, under law, to make the appointment? And the answer is [...]

We Get Letters

Cue the bouncy 50′s ad music. Good evening, Conflucians. Today was the second day to vote for Best Liberal Blog at the 2008 Weblog Awards. Did you cast your vote today? One vote per person per day. We want to win fair and square. I’d like to thank Wonkette for boosting our blog stats today. [...]

Burn It Down, Women

I dare you to watch this and not be shocked, humiliated and enraged. Via Partizane and Gabnet. This is what the victory of Barack Obama means for women: We are all fair game. It’s fine to advocate violence against Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, over and over and over. You can win a national election [...]

When did mean and vicious become “funny?”

  The picture above was posted on New Year’s Eve at a blog called Rumproast by the blog owner, “Kevin K.”  The picture is titled “icepick_new_year.”  It was taken from a video posted today at Wonkette by managing editor and part-owner Ken Layne.  At both blogs the picture/video were treated as “humor.”  The comment threads speak for [...]

Restoring Perky Tautness

Riverdaughter had me worried earlier with this:  ”Your tits will sag, your scrotums will lose their perky tautness and young, stupid adolescent males will make fun of you . . . “ The thought of Wonktard trolls making fun of my testicles had me all stressed out, until Bostonboomer told me about a solution: Now [...]

Tuesday: What is PUMA?

The NY Times asked this question yesterday, or so I’ve heard. I’ll tell you what we’re not.  We are not the kind of people who are concerned with whether our vaginas are as fresh and sweet as a Massengill douche. Oddly enough, our ability to make noise and vote appear to be independent of our [...]

Wonkette Gets Pwn’ed

 From Wonkette: So we checked out our “competitor,” the Confluence blog, and, as many of you have already discovered… it’s a PUMA site! They have a post called, “An Interview with Harriet Christian, NY Senate Seat Contender.” Oh man. Welcome to our radar, Confluence! I thought it was priceless when Blogstalkers was fooled by the [...]

Obacrats Can’t Be This Stupid

Whoever thought maneuvering Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich into a position that allowed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to officially criminalize machine politics-as-usual for political advantage has got to be the biggest neophyte yahoo rube to come down the pike since…Barack Obama.  Let’s review.  Barack Obama, the only African American in the Senate for two years, mysteriously [...]