No Fat Chicks

This week, one of my professors brought up Sarah Palin in class. I always HATE when professors talk about politics, because the power differential in the classroom leaves you without much recourse to respond. So when my professor started criticizing Sarah Palin for bringing cookies into a school in the midst of an unprecedented Childhood [...]

Friday Night Cookout Open Thread

My recipe of the week: Quesadilla Burgers Quesadillas o 2 (10 inch) flour tortillas o Olive oil o 1/3 cup shredded Monterey jack pepper cheese o 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese o shredded lettuce o 1/2 cup diced tomatoes o 3-4 sliced red onion rings o 2-4 bacon slices o southwest seasoned hamburger (recipe follows)

Call me crazy, but . . .

Unless things change dramatically in the next two years there is a pretty good chance that the question in 2012 won’t be “Will the Republicans win?” but instead will be “Which Republican will win?” It could be very much like 2008 when it was obvious that the Democrats could (and did) nominate an empty suit [...]

Matt Taibbi and the Invisible Americans

Part of my problem as we go forward towards a progressively bleak future, is that back in 2008 some of the best progressive writers exposed themselves as pretty horrible thinkers. For example here’s Matt Taibbi then: The New Nixon Moreover, like Nixon, her “invisible Americans” deal is carefully couched to appeal to the fears of [...]

Accountability before Austerity: Talk to the Hand

I have a theory about the so-called Deficit Reduction Commission’s “proposals”, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Yesterday, I found this link from USAToday in Paul Krugman’s Mush from the Wimp post at Conscience of a Liberal: Obama to Congress: Stop Shooting Down Deficit Proposals. In it, Obama is lecturing Congress to get [...]

It’s Almost the Weekend News

Good Morning, it’s Friday almost-the Thirteenth! What’s going on with you today? Check out what almost-First Lady Cindy McCain is up to: Cindy McCain does video opposing DADT, accuses ‘our government’ of sending signal that bullying is okay – her hubbie is the lead defender of DADT John McCain is leading the filibuster against the [...]