Your Breakfast Read, Sunday Edition

The Comeback Kids To quote Thomas Friedman: “Suck. On. This.” ‘Heroic’ missions put Team Clinton on top A LITTLE more than a year ago, the American tabloids were in no doubt: Barack Obama had derailed the Hillary Clinton juggernaut, and Bill’n’Hill were heading for divorce. “Why on earth would she stay with him now?” one [...]

When fooling “enough of the people, most of the time” stops working

There comes a point in every relationship when the oxytocin level starts to decline and the number of verbal inconsistencies increase to the point where the object of your affection is no longer the greatest thing since sliced bread.  When this happens, you can either reject or accept what you’ve got to work with and [...]

Do the Republicans love their children too?

There is no monopoly in common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too I was raised to be a fundiegelical cold warrior, but I was born in 1960 and by the [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Politics Didn’t the new leaders of the Democratic Party such as Markos Moulitsas, Arianna Huffington, John Aravosis, Josh Marshall pretty much request that the “vile” Clintons be thrown out? What was it again? Anything Clinton was a “cancer” in the party. I think Josh Marshall said he “needed help” to understand why Hillary Clinton was [...]

Friday Funnies

TEN SIGNS YOU’VE HIRED THE WRONG CLOWN * By the end of the party, he’s got every damn kid doing the “pull my finger” trick. * Clown car must be started with breathalyzer device. * Props for his “disappearing” trick: a moving van and your wide-screen TV. * Scares the holy hell outta the kids [...]

The Great Astroturf War of 2009

The traditional August recess during non-election years is usually like going cold turkey for political junkies (and bloggers are political junkies.)  These dog days of summer drag by at an excruciatingly slooooow pace, with Congress and the President out of Washington and nothing happening to talk about. Not this year. This summer may even turn [...]

Friday Morning at The Confluence

Thank goodness it’s Friday! I’m through teaching for a few weeks, and I hope to spend at least a few days lying around reading detective novels. I have to appear at a university function this morning, but then I’m free, free, free as a bird! Well sort of….anyway I’ll be able to hang around TC [...]

S.H.I.T. Open Thread

I’m sure happy it’s Thursday. What’s on your mind?

Maybe I’m crazy but . . .

Today I see this news story in the SF Chronicle: The state legislative counsel on Wednesday concluded that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger exceeded his authority when he cut hundreds of millions of dollars from state health and welfare programs before signing a package of bills to solve the state’s huge deficit. and it reminds me of [...]

A pox on both their houses

I find myself in an unusual situation these days.  As I watch the Great Astroturf War of 2009 between Kool-aid swilling progressives that are organized and partially funded by Obamacrat special interest groups and “angry mobs of unregistered self-lobbyists” that are organized and partially funded by the GOP and the Healthcare lobby, I am cheering [...]