Stormy Daniels For the Senate!!!

(Little Isis Note: I’ve decided not to sell my laptop… selling my TV instead! So my Hiatus is officially over! Besides, this was just too irresistible not to post about.) I went over to Uppity Woman earlier this evening and nearly choked on my juicy juice when I came across her gem of a post [...]

Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?

The more things change, the more they remain insane.  From Willam A. Jacobson at Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion: My post the other day, MSNBC Hides Obama’s Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate), has hit a nerve unlike anything else I have written. The post concerned the lunch trip of Obama and Biden to a burger shop to get a [...]

Button up. Your sexism is showing.

So now it’s Sotomayor. According to Jeffrey Rosen, who spoke to some law clerk, she’s not fit to be a judge on the Supreme Court because she has opinions, she expresses those opinions, she expresses those opinions forcefully and at length. (Shows you how much I know about the law. I thought that was practically [...]

Bob Somerby Howls (UPDATED)

This is one of the most succinct (for Bob) explanations of what’s wrong with our news media: The bailout will go down as the biggest heist in monetary history? [...] Is there any chance that’s true? For ourselves, we have no idea—in part, because we watch Maddow and Olbermann. At a time of massive upheaval, [...]

Thursday: Backstory- Laboratories of Democracy

Early morning TC today so this will be quick. I found a new podcast to recommend.  It’s called Backstory.  The concept is three historians, one from each of the last three centuries, who cover current events and their evolution in American History.  The podcast is a top notch production and the topics are well researched.  [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

The “homosexual agenda” on the march After MA, CT, IA, VT, ME too has decided to get into the “marriage-ruining” business. NH is waiting around the corner. Maine Governor Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill Gov. John Baldacci of Maine signed a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday minutes after the Legislature sent it to his desk, saying [...]

What Does “Qualified” Mean?

With the announcement by David Souter that he intends to retire from SCOTUS at the end of this term the usual suspects are getting their panties in a twist over the possibility that white men will be discriminated against in the selection of a replacement.  They are worried that gender, race and/or sexual orientation will [...]

Single-Payer: A Laugh Riot (laugh along with Max Baucus)

I was already wound up when I got to my parent’s house yesterday. My sister had posted a link to her Facebook page and I accidentally read it before I had my coffee: More for Medicare? McClary is one of millions of people who might be eligible for a controversial proposal allowing those between 55 [...]

Wednesday: We didn’t just fall off the turnip truck

Yesterday, The Onion put out another one of those “soon-to-be-classic” headlines: Nation Ready to be Lied to About Economy Again.  I find myself identifying with this guy who was quoted in the article: “I don’t need to be constantly reminded that the lack of regulations on Wall Street compounded with failing institutions like AIG basically [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

The war against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Already It all started with this excerpt from an article in The Politico: The top candidate, on paper, is Sotomayor, 54, a Clinton appointee to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She meets the empathy criteria, having grown up poor in the South Bronx, as well as Obama’s preference [...]