Conflucians Say: Thursday, Wishful Thinking Edition

What are you going to do this summer? How are you handling the Great Recession of 2009? Are you getting enough sleep? Eating well? Exercising? Wanna talk about it? Join us tonight at 10PM EST for Conflucians Say on PUMA United Radio for the Wishful Thinking Edition, among other things. I hope we’ll be talking [...]

Burn Notice Returns Tonight

The coolest show on television is back.  It’s followed by: What are you watching? (This is an open thread)

Go Read Eriposte

Part II of his series “Bloggers on the Bus: A Conversation with Eric Boehlert” is up and it’s a must-read.  Some excerpts: One of the most interesting things bloggers have told me (often off the record) about the primary season was how clear it became that their readers really did dictate what the bloggers wrote.  [...]

Obama on “Women’s Rights” in His Speech in Cairo, Egypt

Oh. My. God. Is this man really as clueless as he sounds? Obama on the rights of Muslim women in the U.S.: …freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That [...]

LOONS

The last few days we have done several posts that discussed last year’s campaign, the blogospheric meltdown and Obamanation’s  efforts to rewrite recent history.  These posts have triggered an upsurge in a blogospheric malady known as Lying Obot Optical Neuropathy Syndrome (LOONS). LOONS is a condition unique to Obama supporters and it is currently unknown [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Hottest Potato UPDATE!!! I decided to avoid any immediate analysis of “The Speech” but I’ll make an exception: Peter Daou got cojones. Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama’s Cairo Speech I know many will gush over President Obama’s Cairo speech and I’m likely swimming against the tide of the media and my [...]

Late Night: Twilight Sequel

Twilight sequel is coming out soon, and since I have a p*ssy, I am naturally salivating in anticipation for it. Any movies you all are looking forward to?