PUMAs crash blogstalker convention

Several pairs of Underoos were permanently stained.  Oh!  The humanity! This is an open thread.  What mischief are you up to tonight?

How Brilliant is Obama?

How brilliant is Obama? (H/T to dakinikat, for sharing this with me) Is he a genius or is he a beneficiary of affirmative action placement? Frankly, apart from hyperbole, there is not much information to go on. Furthermore, the ways he’s chosen to govern his life, outside of his academic endeavors, do not lend to [...]

Book Review: The Bloggers on the Bus

I was delighted to be sent an advance copy of this book about a month ago and then promptly fell headlong into a combination of blog burnout and exercise exhaustion.  What I thought was going to be a short primary season when I started this blog in January 2008 stretched into a mega marathon of [...]

Is Obama a sexist?

In the final installment of Eriposte’s interview with Eric Boehlert is up and I found this part worthy of notice: Eric Boehlert: By contrast a lot of the attacks on Clinton’s candidacy were strictly personal in nature. For instance, I don’t remember reading lots of allegations online that Obama was a monster out to destroy [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Never Forget At a Holocaust Site, Obama Calls Denial ‘Hateful President Obama on Friday intensified his pledge to unlock the Middle East stalemate, sending an envoy next week to pursue his call for a two-state solution, as he toured a former concentration camp that he said served as a lesson to “be ever-vigilant about the [...]