Federal Judge says don’t enforce Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

New York Times: A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday immediately stopping enforcement of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, suspending the 17-year-old ban on openly gay U.S. troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ landmark ruling also ordered the government to suspend and discontinue all pending discharge proceedings and investigations under the policy. [...]

Bruce Almighty is injured but Campbell is super

Raiders beat Chargers 35-27 After 13 straight losses to San Diego, it took just about everything bouncing the Oakland Raiders’ way to end the skid. Michael Bush ran 3 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with 3:39 remaining and Tyvon Branch returned a fumble 64 yards for a score as the Raiders ended the drought with [...]

Superman, where are you now?

From Hot Air: With Barack Obama’s popularity plummeting to the point where a visit does more damage to Democrats than Republicans, incumbent Democrats have increasingly turned to Bill Clinton to rescue them from their own electoral woes. The former President, whose personal popularity remains as high or higher than when he was in the White [...]

Monday News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! Someone finally threw the book at Obama. WTF?! I don’t know if this person was trying to get an autograph or what, but maybe the feds need to pay a little more attention to security for the President and a little less attention to silencing obscure peace activists. From the Daily Mail: This [...]

Losing their favorite game

Right now, the rightwing populist voice is the loudest one in the room, and it is going unchecked. The political discourse in this country is going from wingnut to WTF. (How does saying “homosexuality” is not “an equally valid and successful option” translate into “not homophobic” anyway? That’s strictly rhetorical, btw. I could ask for [...]

Noise is not Free Speech

We’re on a collision course with technology. Free speech is being killed in order to save it. Something is always boiling up that involves free speech. Cartoons are drawn of the “wrong” person, somebody is jailed for speaking out and gets the Nobel prize, there are plans to build a mosque in the “wrong” place. [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Day Conflucians!! A memorable thing about the previous week is all the WTF news. It’s been crazy. And we seem to be getting even more. Yep, they’re back to fake fainting in Obama audiences and new found forms of racism in anyone who doesn’t love Obama. Clearly they’re a one trick pony and that’s [...]

Watching the Wheels (Open Thread)

John Lennon October 9, 1940 — December 8, 1980 I missed John Lennon’s birthday in my roundup! He would have been 70 years old today. Lennon left us before I was born. I said hello hello to the world a few months after his death and just before the Reagan assassination attempt, which was also [...]

Breaking up is hard to do

Elon James White at Salon: Defending Obama and the Democrats is hard. Not because I don’t think they’ve done some good in the past two years, because I do. It’s hard because I find myself constantly defending them, even when I’m not ecstatic about what’s happening. Don’t let my overly public defense of the Democrats [...]

A Pleasure in Work

The late John Huston once said, “Choose your career as you would choose your spouse- for love and money.” The money part has been dogging us for a couple of decades.  We’re so worried all of the time over whether we can pay the bills that we tend to forget about the love of work. [...]