An unusually busy lame-duck session

Politico: A repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell?” Don’t bet on it. The window for action on reversing the ban on gays in the military is quickly closing, and the path to undoing the 17-year-old law is riddled with roadblocks: a crowded lame-duck calendar, Democratic defectors, and emboldened Republican senators who have no desire to [...]

Friday Night Cookout on Saturday Pre-Turkey Day Edition

Here’s my recipe for Easy-Peasy Green Bean Casserole: 8 slices of bacon 2 16 oz. cans of French cut green beans 1 medium onion 1 16 oz can sliced stewed tomatoes 1 can French’s French Fried Onions You can either chop the bacon and then fry it or fry it then crumble it. Either way [...]

You can’t make this stuff up

If you thought the progressive blogosphere lost its collective mind to Palin Derangement Syndrome two years ago, you ain’t seen nothing yet: Insiders: If Bristol Palin Wins, ‘Dancing’ Is Ruined At first, having Bristol Palin participate in ‘Dancing With The Stars’ seemed like a brilliant idea. Just like Kate Gosselin before her, casting an admittedly [...]

Obama must be drinking his own Kool-aid

“Another victory like this, and we’re done for” – Pyrrus Seriously. Jake Tapper: Huh? President Obama Tells Volunteers That In Midterms “You Guys Turned ‘Yes We Can’ Into ‘Yes We Did’ Members of Organizing for America – the president’s former campaign committee – received a text message today asking them to call 888-206-1431 “to hear [...]

The Knitting Diaries: Of Needles and Pins

Not that you can tell from the photos above, but I’ve spent most of this week working on the first sleeve of my sweater. The first couple of attempts failed because I just couldn’t stand the huge holes on either side of the extra stitches I cast on under the arm. Apparently, this is a [...]

A shitty post

Where does your shit go? I’m serious. You sit on the throne, grunt and groan, you hear a splash, you use some Charmin to clean up and then Whoosh, it’s gone! Gone where? Do you know? Some of you might be saying “It goes out to my septic tank.” Okay, but when the honey truck [...]

Birthday Boys on a Shero Saturday

Good morning, sleepyheads. Wonk the Vote here with my two for this Saturday, November 20th, 2010. Eighty five years ago today, Bobby Kennedy was born. On November 3rd, 1964, the voters of New York elected Bobby Kennedy to the US Senate. Thirty six years later, on November 7th, 2000, the voters of New York elected [...]

Voting is more fun in Spain

This is an open thread.