Monday News: The Upcoming Execution of Teresa Lewis

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! As you have probably heard, the state of Virginia plans to execute a woman for the first time in nearly a century. The execution is controversial, not only because of gender, but also because the woman, Teresa Lewis, has an IQ of only 72, making her borderline retarded. Furthermore, Lewis was probably [...]

Democracy ain’t pretty

Steve Kornacki at Salon: This is just a preview of the GOP’s Tea Party hell What’s most striking about the trauma the Tea Party inflicted on the Republican establishment in the Senate primary season that ended last week is how much worse it could have been. Sure, the Tea Party base managed to dethrone two [...]

Bruce Almighty

Wikipedia: Bruce Raymond Gradkowski (born January 27, 1983 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft after playing college football at Toledo. [...] Gradkowski has previously been a member [...]

Sunday News – Pirate Edition

Good Day Conflucians!! Or should I say Ahoy, matey!! Let’s get right to it. It’s international talk like a pirate day. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s very silly. So putting the talking bit aside. Let’s look at why pirates are so fascinating. Here’s a bit from a nice Wikipedia article on the [...]

Born to Party

If you want to understand the Tea Party movement you should read Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by Senator James Webb of Virginia: The Scots-Irish (sometimes called the Scotch-Irish) are all around you, even though you probably don’t know it. They are a force that shapes our culture, more in the abstract power [...]

While you were sleeping . . .

Bob Somerby has been a voice howling in the internet wilderness longer than there has been a blogosphere.  The Obots hate him which is a good enough reason to read him in my book.  Yesterday: Ignoring a revolution: By far, the most striking passage we read all week came from the pen of Bob Herbert. [...]

Suckers!

(I had to front-page this shit) Barack Obama commits another Kinsley gaffe, this one almost as big as his “Bitter-Cling” comments during the campaign. This time he’s mocking supporters of the public option. Jane Hamster: OBAMA: Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get — to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an [...]

Late Night: Is this TEOTWAWKI? (The End Of The World As We Know It)

Two tornadoes struck New York City on Thursday evening. That’s right, I said tornadoes–in NYC! The storm that churned through New York City spawned two destructive tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens, authorities said Friday. The storm on Thursday [...]

Smart Power: Hillary weighs in on the tea party the SMART way

From the ABC preview of Hillary’s interview with Christiane Amanpour (I can hardly wait to watch my two favorites together this Sunday!): Clinton also said she expects the Tea Party’s bark to be a bit stronger than its bite when it comes to its impact on U.S. foreign policy. “Is it possible to have the [...]

REPENT, sinners!

From the Guardian: Benedict XVI used the first papal state visit to Britain today to launch a blistering attack on “atheist extremism” and “aggressive secularism”, and to rue the damage that “the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life” had done in the last century. The leader of the Roman Catholic church concluded [...]