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.

Friday Night Karaoke

This is an open thread, so join in at home. My favorite karaoke song: What songs will you karaoke in public?

Introducing the new house wine

I was searching for a wine that goes good with schadenfreude and someone suggested a German wine. That’s when I recalled a wine that we used to drink when I was stationed in Deutschland that we called “Black Cat.” I couldn’t remember the name but I recalled it was a white wine from the Mosel [...]

Alan Simpson and the Republicans are Domestic Terrorists

And if Obama and the Democrats go along with this, they’re finished as a party: The Republican co-chair of the White House’s fiscal commission predicted this morning that his controversial recommendations for reducing long-term deficits will have a real opportunity to become enacted next year, when the nation brushes up against its debt ceiling, and newly [...]

Ask not what Obama can do for you, ask what you can do for Obama

Inside the mind of a rabid Obot (no link, biohazard): And it’s why I smile when I read people shrieking and rending their garments for him to do this or say that as if he were their servant. Obama IS our servant you moron. Haven’t you ever heard the term “public servant?” We don’t work [...]

“He seemed like Cream of Jesus on Toast”?

(“Cream of Jesus on Toast” is Violet Socks’ invention.  Read it all here.) Why don’t we take a stroll down memory lane and revisit February 2008. That was when we found out that Barack Obama was not even original, let alone likely to be audacious: In FEBRUARY 2008, we knew that he was “just words”.  The [...]

Thank Ghu It’s Freitag

‘Quantitative Easing’: The Hidden Government Subsidy for Banks This video went up on Zero Hedge yesterday, I believe. In the first minute you will want to throw both of these little bears in a sack and drown them, but by the end they win you over. There are so many things about QE that are [...]

Overnight Open Thread

From Slate: Are the Palin Girls Cyberbullies? Analyzing their Facebook flame war. Check out this oxymoronic paragraph: The headlines on Gawker and TMZ are about Willow’s homophobia because she called a couple of the guys she was attacking “gay” and “faggot.” The language, however typical of adolescent taunts, is shameful, especially in light of the [...]

A troll and his sockpuppet

Take a look at the picture above and tell me if you see anything wrong. I didn’t see anything, did you? Tennessee Guerilla Women is the hangout for Angry Black Troll (ABG) and his sockpuppet “Returning Guest.” The two of them can be relied upon to parrot the standard Axelrod talking points on ANY subject, [...]