Andy Borowitz is the funniest guy on the web. Rabid Dog Briefly Mistaken for Tea Party Candidate Receives Standing Ovation at Missouri Rally JEFFERSON CITY, MO (The Borowitz Report) – A rabid Doberman Pinscher jumped on stage at a Tea Party rally in Missouri on Labor Day and barked at the crowd for nearly [...]
I loves me some West Wing. C & L has a great clip up about President Bartlett and an open microphone. Then this follows in the post: Conservatives’ vision for this country is dark, dystopian, and deeply pessimistic. Sounds about right.
I had checked out metafilter.com before but hadn’t really engaged in it. There are so many web sites and memes and movements, it is sometimes difficult to know which one to follow (I was a member of facebook very early on, but didn’t do anything with it for about four years.) I read the article [...]
I try to be a pacifist. I really do. But I was a soldier once. I’m pretty sure that if I were younger, I would be there. When I was 18, I wanted to be there. I wanted to go to Vietnam. But it was January, 1973, and the only service personnel going to Vietnam [...]
I like some good snark. This cracked me up when I read it. Virginia, fresh off the thrilling conservative victory of getting a Republican judge to rule part of Obamacare unconstitutional, is now looking to ban gays from the National Guard in its state,because playing around with secessionary tactics is the second greatest passion in the South. [...]
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 [...]