Monday Morning News

Good Morning Conflucians!! I’m “back home again in Indiana,” visiting my mom. This afternoon we saw a beautiful bird–a Summer Tanager. It was bright red all over and gorgeous. I never even knew they existed. The females are beautiful too. They look something like a goldfinch, only they are olive green. It’s little moments like [...]

Obama Pulls Out All the Stops in Effort to Defeat Progressive Senate Candidate Joe Sestak

Jake Tapper: Organizing for America, the former grass-roots campaign arm for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, is trying to rally supporters to phone bank and get out the vote in Pennsylvania for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., the former Republican locked in a tight primary race with a far more progressive Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Penn. Chris [...]

It’s a SoD Special Saturday Edition Popourri Day Waster and OPEN THREAD

Weekends are for whatever – gardening, cleaning, parties, backyard barbeques, relaxing, or if you choose, just wasting a bit of time.  There’s nothing wrong with doing that.  You’ve earned it.  Plus, we could all use a break from the non-stop bad news that has recently been inescapable. Therefore, if you’re so inclined, I’ve collected a [...]

Elena Kagan and Laura Bush: When Pigs Really Fly

Kudos to the President for nominating another lady to the supreme court. Well done. But something’s not right here. What is it…? Oh, yeah. I’m really, really glad Obama chose a woman. I really, really wish she were more liberal. I suspect she’ll be okay on Roe and other “social issues,” but her attitude to [...]

“Never attribute to malice…

…that which can adequately be explained by stupidity” – Robert Hanlon For those who are curious, I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been living in interesting times, in the Chinese sense of the term.  I’d love to be a passive observer, sort of an anthropologist, watching fault lines develop and empires rise and fall.  [...]

Wednesday Morning News

Good Morning Conflucians!!! OK, let’s get right to it. What the heck is going on out there. Here’s a fun one, scientists have figured out they can use ultrasound as a male contraceptive: Lead researcher Dr James Tsuruta said: “We think this could provide men with up to six months of reliable, low-cost, non-hormonal contraception [...]

Suddenly it “dawned” on Donna…

Remember this epiphany from Donna Brazile that appeared in Parade magazine back in March of last year: “While I was on the platform watching Barack Obama take the oath of office, for the first time in my life I visualized a woman there,” Brazile tells us. “I want to help chart that course.” (What happens [...]

BP’s Oil Mess: How Could This Happen?

That’s the video of the geyser of oil shooting out of the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. How on earth could this happen? Isn’t the government supposed to protect our country from disasters like this? Yeah, I know. Any thoughts like that should [...]

Monday: Just How Bad is the Gulf Coast Disaster?

Good Morning Conflucians. I realize everyone else is talking about Elena Kagan’s nomination, but we’ve discussed that pretty extensively here. Today I want to focus on the oil spill down in the Gulf instead. I did quite a bit of reading on it yesterday, and I’m convinced that the mess down there is a lot [...]

Open Thread: Ridiculous Songs That Were Big Hits

I wonder if there is any one generation that can lay claim to having the most ridiculous songs that became great big hits.  For me, even though the 70s were an awesome decade overall – including the music, there were also some really weird megahits that I look back on now and say “huh?  I [...]