Ten Ways To Keep Your Political Puppet Happy

As we head into the next presidential election season, we’re profoundly aware that our current “I’m the President” is term-limited. While Mr. Bush can never be replaced, we do need to find someone to fill the office. Those who fear change need not panic, however, if we can make use of what we’ve learned in […]

Hillary Shaves Head to Grab Limelight from Obama

This is too precious! You know I love Hillary like a sister, auntie, future President.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, whose presidential campaign has been overshadowed in recent weeks by charismatic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, today walked into a K-Street beauty salon in Washington, D.C., commandeered the clippers and shaved her head down to the bare […]

John Edwards and Civil Unions

The You Tube poster, who can be found at nickadamsweb, headlines this video, “John Edwards speaking at Dartmouth College equivocating his ass off on gay marriage.”
From my point of view, this is closer to what I wanted to hear from Edwards than what I’ve heard before. I have praised Hillary for her affirmative, half a […]

NYT’s David Brooks: Hillary Doesn’t Need to Apologize

John in DC of American blog writes
[quoting David Brooks]
…I mean, have the people calling for her apology actually read the speeches she delivered before the war? Have they read her remarks during the war resolution debate, when she specifically rejected a pre-emptive, unilateral attack on Saddam?
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A World Without Liberals

The site noted in Paly’s post, quoted below, has additional nasty stuff on it. Paly notes irony in the text of a t-shirt sold on the site. I might congratulate right-wingers for discovering irony, finally, even when it’s turned against people like me. Unfortunately, much of their stuff seems to like to dance on the […]

Schwarzenegger Plans to Veto Gay Marriage Again

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis’s usurper, says if the California Legislature passes a marriage equality bill for a second time he will veto it a second time.
Speaking to a YMCA youth conference, he’s quoted by the San Jose Mercury News, saying,

I wouldn’t sign it because the people of California have voted on that issue.

This […]

Bernstein: Bush disinformation unprecedented

From TheRawStory: Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the lack of truth and candor from the Bush administration is unprecedented in his experience. This president has a record of dishonesty and obfuscation that is Nixonian in character in its willingness to manipulate the press, to manipulate the truth…That’s the real story [the press] should have […]

Time for Hillary, Edwards, and Obama to “Grow a Pair” on GLBT Issues

I’m no more homophobic than the next gay man — that is to say, while I’ve internalized the negative and stereotypical images and language that I’ve been exposed to all of my life, I have the intellect and the discipline to compartmentalize and not to be defined by them. I truly and fully embrace my […]

The Important Work of Government: Elevating Ronald Reagan

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is catching some flack. He’s catching some flack from political hack Grover Norquist. The reason for Patrick’s flack? It seems he has the good sense not to sign a proclamation naming Feb. 6 “Ronald Reagan Day.”
According to the Boston Globe:
Thirty-three governors — 20 Republicans and 13 Democrats — inked the agreement […]

Can We Have a Nation When Only Partisans Are Served?

How frightening is this?
mcjoan of the Daily Kos writes:
…there’s news of a “bloggers roundtable” that occurred yesterday with Major General Kenneth Hunzeker, the Army officer in charge of the Iraqi police training program. Who attended this roundtable? Googling reveals no reports other than one by RedState’s AcademicElephant.
The contributing editors at Daily Kos weren’t invited to […]

Bush’s Extraordinary Protection of Extraordinary Rendition

According to the Washington Post, the U.S., Britain, Spain, and Italy have refused to sign a long-negotiated accord on secret detentions. The U.N. treaty has 58 other signers. It is hardly surprising as failure to cooperate with other nations is a hallmark of the Bush administration. What would be surprising is if this administration did […]

Time To Get Off Our Asses and Do Something

I’m talking to me and I’m talking to you. Some folks are doing everything they can. This is for the rest of us. I sit in my comfy dining room or home office and tap away posting blog entries. It’s great for venting bile and preaching to the choir. Most of my hits in the […]

Andrew Sullivan’s Amazing Intellect Falls Prey to Bush-Think

On the eve of his move to the more prestigious Atlantic Monthly, conservative standard bearer undermines scientific standards in defense of AEI
The basics: Exxon-funded American Enterprise Insttiute (AEI, in acronym-speak) offered $10k to scientists to write papers that refute the proposition that human activity causes global warming.
More basics: Legitimate science does not start with the […]

God Bless Molly Ivins

Read also: Remembering Molly Ivins, John Nichols, The Nation
Molly Ivins was an original. Tonight, the angels in heaven have a new reason to speak truth. Molly will be taking names and setting records straight—with humor, warmth and the occasional devilish barb.
Molly died today, January 31, 2007, aged 62, after a long battle with cancer.
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Why Should Gays and Lesbians Have to Behave?

I’ve been on this gay and lesbian marriage and civil unions kick for a while. I blame it on Andrew Sullivan for writing Virtually Normal. Actually, I’m generally careful to frame the question as “marriage equality.” I find I begin to lose people pretty quickly if I start out honestly. Gay marriage as a term […]

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