It’s Saturday Morning and Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck

Good morning everyone! WTV here with some Saturday reads and rantage, but first a recommendation — I know it’s making the rounds, so you may have already seen it, but please be sure to watch the cartoon to the right if you haven’t already. It’s a short by Rebellious Pixels entitled, “Donald Duck Meets Glenn [...]

Progressive Misogyny

From Kristen Powers at The Daily Beast: While we, sadly, are all too familiar with the casual misogynistic comment, what perhaps is more surprising is where these slurs lately have been coming from—progressive bastions like the Brown camp, and liberal women. Last month, liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller laughed uproariously when a female guest [...]

Cain is able

The Bleacher Report: If there is a pitcher on the Giants’ staff that has always seemed born for playoff baseball, it is Cain. He has been San Francisco’s most consistent pitcher all season but had his worst outing of the year last Saturday against San Diego. Cain has a 2-2 career record with a 4.03 [...]

WTF Friday – Squishy Goo-Goo Edition

I knew I could count on poetry major Chris Bowers over at Cheetoville to bring WTF Week to a big finish: As the election approaches, the buzz in Democratic activist circles is the need for GOTV. If we can turn out the vote, and get the composition of the electorate back to what it was [...]

Our tax dollars at work

Chicago Breaking News: An elderly couple says Cook County sheriff’s police on a drug raid smashed into their Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing them before admitting they had the wrong house. With her husband already asleep, 84-year-old Anna Jakymek was just turning out the lights when she heard loud noises at the back [...]

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Peace Activist (for a change)

Is the Nobel Committee trying to redeem itself after last year’s embarrassing choice of Barack Obama at the same time he was escalating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and approving the use of drones in Pakistan? This year they are awarding the prize to a real peace activist, Liu Xiaobo, who is currently in jail [...]

Keeping up with Madame Secretary: Women and Girls Front and Center

Wonk the Vote here, bringing a Week’s worth of Hillary, with the cause of women and girls informing every foreign policy move Madame Secretary makes. I thought it would be nice heading towards the week’s end to collect some Hillary headlines and share some quick thoughts on it all. It’s good for the spirit. Especially [...]

They call him “The Freak”

  SFGate: Tim Lincecum’s experience on the national stage has been so sad, it’s almost funny. He was picked for three All-Star teams. He missed the first at Yankee Stadium in 2008 because he got sick. He started at St. Louis in 2009 and surrendered two runs in the first inning. He made the trip [...]

WTF Week continues

Over at the Plum Line at WaPo they are calling the above clip “Sharron Angle’s ‘Willie Horton’ ad.”   Between her thinly veiled endorsements of violence, her railing against government spending while receiving government health care, and her recently revealed attempts to force third-party candidate Scott Ashjian out of the race, Sharron Angle’s extremism has [...]

Bipartisan BOHICA

Every time you hear how “the Republicans are worse” you should think about this story from Moneynews: A bill that homeowners advocates warn will make it more difficult to challenge improper foreclosure attempts by big mortgage processors is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature after it quietly zoomed through the Senate last week. The bill, passed [...]