You may have noticed that I have been playing around with ads on Eclectablog lately. I was banned from Google Adsense for some unknown reason so I tried out Chitika and Adbrite. After a month, I’ve earned a grand sum total of $3.45. Woo hoo. So, I’ve pulled them. There’s no point in inflicting useless visual garbage on Eclectablog readers […]

I just wanted to thank everyone again for their support that earned me the Daily Kos “Diarist of the Year” award. For those that missed the show, here’s a rare shot of me receiving my award: Hee, hee! I’m just sayin’…

If there’s one government program folks on both the left and the right love to hate it’s the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP). Started under George W. Bush and continued under Barack Obama, it seems everyone from the farthest-right tea party to farthest-left liberals hate it. It’s about to turn a profit. The program under the $700-billion financial bailout package […]

Um … me. Seriously, I have no idea how this happened but I actually won Diarist of the Year at Daily Kos (basically “Blogger of the Year” for non-Kossacks. Results HERE.) I would like to thank all of you who took the time to vote for me. I’m sitting here enjoying a celebratory martini letting this soak in. Wow. P.S. […]

Our friend Leanne at Blue Water News reports the following: Blue Wave News has experienced a critical failure. It appears that someone hacked into the site and deleted all our content sometime early yesterday morning. Fortunately, we have access to our entire history of posts, but the full restoration will be tedious and time-consuming. In the meantime, we hope to […]

First, a hat tip to my dear friend and fellow member of the Proud Pragmati, Blackwaterdog. If you haven’t checked out her blog, The only adult in the room, you should. She’s brilliant and is doing the job of keeping people informed about the successes of the Obama administration better than anyone else in the blogosphere. To say that the […]

I am in the final round of voting (last nine) for the Daily Kos Diarist of the Year. If you are so inclined, you can vote for me HERE. You do not have to be a member of Daily Kos and if you voted for me in the 1st round, you may vote again. Thanks! I’m just sayin’…

My friend Carol sent me this and it’s way, way cool. In northern Wisconsin, there are herds of white deer. They are true abino deer though they do not have pink eyes. They do have pink ears, pink hooves and pink noses. They even have white velvet in the springtime. They are beautiful. Native Americans considered them spiritually significant. They […]

Remember Andy Harris? He’s the freshman Congressman from Maryland that complained bitterly during an orientation meeting about having to wait for his government-subsidized health insurance. A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. […]

I’m going to say right here and now that I’m both surprised and thrilled to see Barbara Bush do this PSA for the HRC campaign of New York. I’m Barbara Bush and I’m a New Yorker for marriage equality. New York is about fairness and equality and everyone should have the right to marry the person that the love. Join […]

You might think the GOP hates the poor and the elderly and, really, all of those that rely on entitlement payments of one sort or another. But I’ll bet you didn’t know how much they hate them. They hate them enough to introduce a bill that prioritizes paying off our debt to China over their monthly checks. That’s right. Congressman […]