Rep. John Lewis – Washtenaw Country Democratic Party Annual DinnerOctober 3, 2009 Stream the audio using this player: TRANSCRIPT:  I’d like to thank my brother John Dingell for those kind words of introduction. The chairman of the state party, the county party, all of the honorable elected officials, all of you wonderful, smart, beautiful and handsome Democrats. I must just […]

This is just effed. You wanna know what generates the most traffic on this site? It’s from the raunchy picture found in a blog entry I did during the campaign last year called “Cindy McCain Gone Wild!!!” It shows two women in a sexually-explicit position (clothed but simulating…stuff) who are participating in the Miss Buffalo Chip “beauty pageant” at the […]

From the Washington Times: [House Minority Whip Eric] Cantor said Mr. Obama initially asked for Republican help on health care, but Republicans have heard nothing since they offered their ideas. “No matter what the cry is from the White House, no matter what the president claims, they have not engaged with us,” he said. “The White House at this point […]

And we don’t want to be happy. So says Rush Limbaugh. Oh, and by the way? Nobody is dying because they don’t have health care insurance, despite evidence to the contrary I’m just sayin’…

Today is the day that Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer will release the Senate version of the so-called Cap-and-Trade bill, their version of the bill Representatives Waxman and Markey got passed in the House earlier this year. And, surprise, surprise (really!), it’s stronger than the House bill. The Washington Post got a sneak peak at a nearly-completed version of […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. I watched the first installment of the gloriously filmed and narrated Ken Burns series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” last night. As a major supporter of the National Parks system, I have been eagerly awaiting this since I first learned of it. NOTE: Here’s a link to last night’s episode HERE. From taking my four-year […]

This was first posted at an earlier version of this blog in 2007. Today, we’re going to process 100 jalapenos into these remarkably awesome stuffed peppers so I thought that I’d repost it. Enjoy. At long last, I’m finally getting this recipe up. We do HUGE amounts of these at once but the recipe is for 15-20. The photos are […]

The Lansing State Journal reported yesterday that the ACORN office in Lansing, Michigan is closing its doors after receiving a threatening phone call (H/T Eric B. at Michigan Liberal): An angry voice mail laced with a racial epithet was the final straw for Carrie Guzman. An anonymous caller to the local Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, […]

Leonard Pitts, Jr. has a most excellent opinion piece in today’s Detroit Free Press in which he calls upon so-called Christians like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy and Bill O’Reilly to live up to their Christian beliefs and stop telling lies. Even better, they put it on page two, not buried on the Opinion page. Referring to Beck claiming […]

The AP is reporting this week that there is a massive, nationwide shortage of ammunition for guns. Bullet-makers can’t keep up. And why is this? The answer, of course, is obvious: Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress […]

I’m not very reactionary or easily worried. In fact, the whole H1N1 swine flu thing, to me, has been sort of a ho-hum deal. I really haven’t expected much to come of it. Something along the lines of the Y2K bug or something, I suppose. Then the emails started to arrive this week. Now I’m starting to get a leeeeetle […]