Monday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! Sorry to be so late with the news today. Today is Flag Day. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag. As usual, the BP oil gusher is the top story in the news. As you know, the Coast Guard issued an [...]

The Snark

I’ve been looking into conviction by repetition for another project, and landed on a long-time favorite of mine, The Hunting of the Snark. Re-reading it now gave me an uncanny sense of double vision. The bit that did it follows the First Fit of the poem, in which the other crew members are described. The [...]

Indulge me here: Hillary is to “corporatist” as Obama is to …

… what? The reason we couldn’t have Hillary, according to the *it* bloggers, was that she was a corporatist, whatever that means. Now, I’m not stupid enough to assert that corporations are persons, as the USSC seems wont to do, but I do believe that we can coexist peacefully and that a savvy politician can [...]

Irony is not dead

Digby seems surprised by the White House’s hubristic gloating and chastisement of union money spent in Arkansas: Honestly, this is beneath the White House and they need to put a muzzle on it. Primaries are a legitimate part of the democratic process and no president (or his men) should ever, ever dismiss them publicly or [...]

Thursday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! The BP oil spill is still the top story in the news and with each day that passes, it becomes clearer that President Obama not only dropped the ball on handling this nightmare, he never picked up the ball in the first place. And once the ball was thrown in his lap, [...]

Dear Big Dawg, “This is our future”

Howyadoin’.  I catered the primary cocktail parties in 2008 and occasionally, I do pick up jobs here and there for RD and the other FP’s.  I’m a working class kind of guy working on my degree in nutrition and physical training.  Going to open a spa someday for all those rich ladies with too much [...]

Wednesday Morning News

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Election day seems to mostly be over. Let’s take a look at some results. First up in California, Both Whitman and Fiorina win their GOP primaries: Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, who ascended to the top of the business world before turning to politics, prevailed in their respective battles for the G.O.P. [...]

18 Million Cracks: 2 Years Later

Republican women had a good showing in last night’s elections. Tea Poser nutcase Orly Taitz stands no chance of winning, which indicates all the more that the success of the GOP women last night is the result of their tapping into something real. What Nikki Haley is doing is HUGE, and I can’t wait to [...]

All work and no play

The position of President of the United States is often called the toughest job in the world. The office is high pressure and he (so far they have all been “he”) is on the clock 24/7/365. Every waking moment of his day is tightly scripted and scheduled, and even when he sleeps his aides are [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!! Last night a tornado touched down just south of my mom’s home. We had some interruptions of cable TV and our lights flickered a few times, but fortunately all we got here was hard rain and some wind. There were tornadoes scattered around the Midwest yesterday, killing 7 people in Ohio and [...]