John Cole says it: These guys want to run around playing their little keyboard warrior games, but rest assured, the very last thing they want is the public to feel the pinch of war. Because when they do, little Steve’s war games would end right quick. Does anyone think we would have been in Afghanistan [...]
There is an element of racism in this country that I can’t stand. I live in the Pacific Northwest where there is racism, but less it seems than other parts of the country. My brother has been living in the South for many years and I wonder if he sees things the way I see [...]
I don’t normally cut and paste entire posts of others, but I wanted to keep this one because Ed Kilgore says it about as good as it can be said: As most readers have probably heard, Virginia’s Republican Governor Bob McDonnell got himself into hot water by declaring April “Confederate History Month,” in a proclamation [...]
James Fallows, take it away: Update #2: At 5:00pm, Fox’s Greta van Susteren tells us that the vote is still “too close to call.” I’m expecting next to hear from Baghdad Bob.
I was not a big fan of Norman Mailer. If you had asked me about it, I would probably said that he was a narcissistic twerp who yelled and people tend to pay attention to other people who yell. I didn’t think he had a lot to say about anything. I’m not a big reader [...]
Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. - Marcus Brigstocke
Andy Borowitz is pretty funny sometimes. There have been riffs on the name of the new Apple device, iPad. I think this is the funniest I’ve seen. Apple Launches Text-sharing Device, the CoTex Absorbs Heavy Flow of Data, Says Jobs See the link for the rest.
John Moe, in “The Dog Who Hated Me“, hits a lot of right notes. I liked the one about the hippie. It was the movie “Hotel for Dogs” that sealed the deal. My kids had been asking for a dog for years, promising to take care of it, arguing how our family wouldn’t be complete [...]
Troy Patterson nails it with regard to Beck. The setup: The CNN tenure was most notable for a segment in which he told Rep. Keith Ellison to prove that he was not, in his Mohammedanism, a traitor to his country, “no offense.” A logician would call that a fallacious argumentum ad ignorantiam. Money line: With [...]
Cribbed from Kos: Party leader Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina says that accepting federal money for schools is a form of child abuse. And party leader Bill O’Reilly says people who use the internet are child molesters. Just a hunch, but I bet the dedicated medical and mental health professionals who deal with actual [...]