Hold out vs. Sold out: Connecting the dots between 2008 and 2010 (Part I)

Connect, Baby, Connect Today’s progressives have been trained to throw a temper tantrum at the mere mention of offshore drilling. So when they see Obama repackaging himself as a “Drill, Baby, Drill” charlatan (not to mention the charade of former President Dubya giving a “Wind, Baby, Wind” speech), the cognitive dissonance is something to behold. [...]

Saturday Morning News and Views

Good Morning, Conflucians! There is quite a bit of news this morning for a Saturday. The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, was killed early this morning in a plane crash, along with his wife and other Polish officials. The president, 60, had been traveling with the Polish delegation to Russia for the 70th anniversary of [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! It’s been a long week for me. I’ve been trying to get caught up from missing a week of work for my dad’s funeral. Thank goodness the semester is almost over. But I must say, we had some beautiful spring weather in the Boston area this week. Today it’s cooler and overcast–a [...]

Reality is for people who can’t afford health care

From McClatchy, via BDBlue at Corrente: Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. [...] “They’re saying, ‘Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?’ [...]

Thursday, A sorry excuse for news

This story from Glenn Greenwald (referring to stories in the NYTimes & Washington Post) makes me Throw Up :: Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen Today, both The New York Times and The Washington Post confirm that the Obama White House has now expressly authorized the CIA to kill al-Alwaki no matter where he is found, no matter his [...]

A boon for better health; or a bitter pill to swallow?

In January, an article in The Economist caught my eye and I’ve been meaning to front page it as a discussion piece.  The article, entitled “Pills Get Smart: Potential Encapsulated” discusses the new technology being explored in the pharmaceutical industry.  What this entails is the embedding of a “smart chip” which will be ingested with [...]

A sign of the apocalypse?

In a move of quiet desperation, it appears that some have declared war on a most prized symbol of hope.  Things really are bad out there. (from the ad:) Pâté is passé. Unicorn – the new white meat. Excellent source of sparkles! Unicorns, as we all know, frolic all over the world, pooping rainbows and [...]

Double “breasted” standards

To protest the gender double-standard applied to above-the-waist nudity, 2 dozen women took to the streets in Portland Maine on Saturday, sans shirts. In the irony of all ironies, their objective was to prove that a topless woman should be no more noteworthy than a topless man.    However… For some reason, the protest organizers [...]

Easter After Dark: Open Thread

So, how did your Sunday go? For those who celebrate Easter for either religious or secular reasons, I hope you had the opportunity to gather with family and friends for a delicious meal and way too much chocolate (is there such a thing?). In any event, it appears that however bad your Easter was, the [...]

Given #1: The media is not your friend

Mike Lux can’t understand why the networks are getting all giddy about the TeaParty movement.  It’s all they ever cover. To be clear, the tea partiers aren’t the only angry people in America. There are plenty of working class swing voters who aren’t inclined to buy into the tea party stew of racism, nativism, and [...]