Pentagon Releases Findings on DADT

Today the Pentagon releaseda long-anticipated surveyregarding military service by gay men and lesbians. The study states, as predicted, that service by openly LGBT personnel would have little to no impact on long-term military cohesion and effectiveness. The study took place over a period of 10 months, and is expected to have huge implications for the future of [...]

Tuesday Morning: Falling Chips

How to speak to the public without a teleprompter for 15 minutes: Yes, dear World, we passed her up for this (skip to 1:51 to hear Hillary’s response): It appears that Obama is following Hillary’s foreign policy. Just sayin’. Meanwhile, WaPo is reveling in the damage that Wikileaks has done to our foreign policy.  Instead [...]

Bad Reputation Open Thread

One of the news stations this morning couldn’t stop talking about whether the Wikileaks documents were contributing to a Bad Reputation for the U.S. Well, maybe or maybe (with Fair Game on my mind) it’s our own dumb decisions making the biggest contributions. Anyway, here’s Freedy Johnston singing Bad Reputation:

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Wikileaks kerfluffle. The official story is that this was all the work of a 23 year-old Okie cybergeek: Bradley Manning: The prime suspect of giving files to WikiLeaks Bradley Manning, 23, enlisted in the US Army in 2007 and became an intelligence analyst in Iraq, sifting through classified [...]

Wikileaks the State Department

The cables are out and now is the time to sift through them and come to our own conclusions about what they contain.  For those of you who want a running commentary, Peter Daou recommends Greg Mitchell’s blog at The Nation. I’m not surprised that we’re spying on UN officials  and gathering intelligence from around [...]

Monday Morning Palinpalooza

I am almost as sick of hearing about and seeing Sarah Palin as I am hearing about and seeing Barack Obama, but the news is awful, the weather is boo boo, and as a liberal fem I am apparently supposed to go into a screaming emotional PMS induced rant every time her name is even [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Morning Conflucians!! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving last week. Well, at least those in the US that observe the holiday. Everyone else can suck it. Just kidding, hope everyone had a great week last week as well. While I’m at it, hope anyone celebrating the real first Thanksgiving (Virginia 1619) last month had [...]

Guilty pleasures – Movies that are so bad they’re good

They’re not just bad, they’re stupid. They make no sense. The scripts are bad and the acting is worse. But we love to watch them anyway. What’s your favorite bad movie? This is an open thread.

Willie Nelson smokes pot? I’m shocked!

Next to Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong and Snoop Dogg is there anyone in this country more well-known for toking up? The NYT rolling papers: Willie Nelson Freed After Drug Arrest A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in [...]

The Saturday After: Give Thanks for the Sisterhood

Hey everyone, Wonk here, hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It’s the Saturday after, and my gratitude as always goes out to the Sisterhood out there that has grown around Hilllary and her work–toward a world where families and communities can thrive and individuals–man, woman, or child–have the opportunities to [...]