Thursday Morning News Break

The news about CCSVI is slowly leaking out: Preliminary results have been released from the Buffalo study on CCSVI: Brain blood vessels clue to MS More than 55% of multiple sclerosis patients have been found to have constricted blood vessels in their brains, a US study says. The preliminary results are from the first 500 [...]

Professor = uppity

This is not an Onion parody. From Inside Higher Ed: Barack Obama has been called a lot of things since he hit the national stage: Celebrity, elitist and even one who “pals around with terrorists.” But as his poll numbers come back down to earth, and an emboldened conservative movement sharpens its attacks, the label [...]

Krugman says, “We’re doomed”

H/T  to Dhyana on the Beautiful Theories thread for this reference to a post from Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal blog.  Here’s what Obama said recently (yesterday?) during an interview to be published Friday: President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie [...]

Wednesday, I’m NOT a garbage can! (New Commitment: Day 1)

[Note: This post was originally written for my personal blog, Eat4Today, and is part of an ongoing discussion of using the power of Commitment and Daily Goals to create a successfully healthy lifestyle. ] Just4Today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. I’m also going to walk at [...]

Beautiful Theories Destroyed by Ugly Facts

Edward Luce at The Financial Times wrote a piece called America: The Fearsome Foursome and it’s all about how everything in the WH is run by a small evil group to which no one we know belongs.  Yep, everything bad that has ever happened in the past year is the fault of Rahm Emanuel, Valerie [...]

Wednesday Wake-up

White House mocks Sarah Palin from podium Even the White House’s top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her palm during a speech to “tea party” activists. Robert Gibbs showed the words “hope” and “change” on his hand [...]

Remember When We Believed In a Place Called Hope?

Remember when Donna Brazile told us all that the Democratic Party was forming a New Coalition that was “…more urban, as well as suburban…” and that the party didn’t need gays, Hispanics, blue collar voters (more commonly known as Jacksonians) and us bitter, clingy feminists anymore? Donna was either flying high that night, or she [...]

Stupid Trolls

Sometimes you read a troll dropping that makes you wonder if the person could really be that clueless. I was over at Tennessee Guerilla Women where Egalia had a post about the Super Bowl Snickers commercial starring Betty White you see above. One of Egalia’s regular trolls named “Lance Thruster” posted this comment: Betty White [...]

RIP, John Murtha

Associated Press: Tribune-Democrat: U.S. Rep. John Murtha, the powerful Democrat who represented this area since 1974, died this afternoon in a Virginia hospital. The congressman’s office released a brief statement saying Murtha “passed away peacefully” at 1:18 p.m. His family was at his bedside, spokesman Matt Mazonkey said. [...] On Saturday, he became the longest-serving [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! And congratulations to the New Orleans Saints, their fans, and the City of New Orleans! The Saints are the winners of Super Bowl XLIV! From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: The New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl They beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 here at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida. Saints [...]