FYI

Dakinikat brought this to my attention in the comments but I think it deserves front page attention: “I suppose that I should take a moment to congratulate the consummate professionals at the Daily Konfluence for invoking me once again, attributing rabid falsehoods and mischaracterizations about myself and my compatriots, and for once again hosting the [...]

The Sarah Palin Project: Eye of Newt and RINO Tails

Cross posted at: Autographed Letter Signed (Afrocity) “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,– For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.“ William Shakespeare: Macbeth (IV, i, 14-15) The above line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth [...]

Yesterday I Was Thinking of Queen Elizabeth, And I am Letting You Know Today

Hi! Mark your Calenders. Today is Little Isis Day at The Confluence. Riverdaughter has invited me to start Posting Regularly here. Okay, well… technically I emailed her and told her I would start posting here, but that is a moot Point. The Point is, I am here now. I have succesfully seduced the rest of [...]

Tears of a Clown

I don’t blog to be liked. I didn’t come here because I was lonely and wanted to make new friends.  I started blogging because I have strong opinions and a compulsive need to inflict them on other people. I intentionally cultivated an obnoxious online persona and chose an ugly homicidal clown as my avatar because [...]

Wednesday: Foxhole Liberals

My mom called me the other day.  She was visiting my brother in AZ over Easter and as the conversation wrapped up, she told me cheerily, “I’m going to one of those tea party thingies!”  Knowing my mom’s susceptibility to Republican messaging, I warned her, “You know, those thingies are mostly about anti-tax stuff.  You [...]

Blago Show a No Go

This is a real heartbreaker. A federal judge ruled today that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich cannot go to Costa Rica to film a reality show, saying he does not “have confidence’’ that Blagojevich will comply with the conditions of his bail. “It’s way too soon. I don’t think this defendant in all honesty … fully [...]

A Modest Proposal

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” — F.Scott Fitzgerald This is one of those open thread thingies

I demand a raise!!! (Updated)

From Mark Penn at the Wall Street Journal: In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters. [...] Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out [...]

Tuesday: The Rich have feelings too

O.M.G.  This piece, The Rage of the Priveleged Class, in New York Magazine is a must read.  It’s all about the trials and tribulations of the movers and shakers on Wall Street who are starting to feel the pinch both economically and socially.  It is hard to find a piece of journalism that is this [...]

And the problem is? What? The end of Murder-By-Spreadsheet?

Hilarious: The Wall Street Journal thinks that a public plan costing 18% – 32% below what I’m paying now for Health Insurance is “Free” (laughing) Only a Wall Street resident could call a $600 – $700 per month bill “Free” Also? If that’s the best the Democrats can do to make Health Care affordable, then [...]