PDS – Is there a cure?

Elizabeth Wurzel at Atlantic: Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don’t agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the most visible working mother and female politician in America, that she is the best exemplar [...]

And the winner is . . . ABC!

Tonight’s the night. Will it be Jennifer, Kyle, or the Spawn of Evil? Will Jeralyn’s head explode? Will more innocent televisions have to die? Tune in to ABC at 9 p.m. Eastern to find out. Meanwhile: Sarah Palin Wants Christine O’Donnell on Next ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Sarah Palin was not only playing the role [...]

TSA: Tough Sh!t Asshat; a Tuesday afternoon open thread

The TSA doesn’t get it at all. Yesterday they visited Capitol Hill demonstrating to 200 Democratic and Republican Congressional Staffers just how benign their search procedures really are: TSA uproar moves to Capitol Hill The comprehensive briefing of House staff, by a TSA deputy, covered everything – the threat from Al Qaeda in the Arabian [...]

The pattern is really clear

WKJM: I was just reading this article about Mike Huckabee saying that President Obama’s going to be harder to beat than a lot of Republicans think. I think he’s right, for a number of reasons. But one he mentions is incumbency. And he’s right. People simply don’t appreciate how seldom elected presidents get denied reelection. [...]

Remind me again, which party is stupid?

The other day, I found this link from Corrente’s post, Who’s Going Rogue?, to what I initially thought was the left coming to its senses.  It’s all about the “secret” meetings that Democratic donors are having about the 2012 election season.  It turns out that what we had suspected in 2008 was true.  Obama had [...]

A big nothing-burger

Have you ever been to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose? I’ve been there twice. It’s kinda cool, but it’s not very mysterious. Supposedly a psychic told this rich widow named Sarah Winchester that if she never stopped building her house she would live forever. For 38 years it worked. Then Sarah died anyway. [...]