It is sooooo good to be the king[‘s bankers]. For example, you can get a handout from the tax-payers of America to the tune of $154 BILLION and turn around and give your execs $504 MILLION in bonuses. Now that is sweet, you have to admit. That’s what you can do if you’re AIG, for example. And why can you […]

I am a fairly frequent reader of David Byrne’s journal/blog. He’s been pretty excited and upbeat and heartened by Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election. As someone who travels the whole world over, I think his perspectives on the impact of this election on both the United States of America and on the world as a whole are worth […]

Funniest damn thing on the innernets right now, no kidding: Joe the Plumber – SecureOurDream.com I’m pretty sure he bought his webpage at Wallmart. Just so we’re all straight: His name isn’t Joe. He’s not a licensed plumber. And he doesn’t always pay his taxes. Is he an “average Joe”? Maybe. Should you pay to read his blog or buy […]

I just get the biggest laugh out of all this ridiculous talk about “Palin 2012” like she’s got some kind of serious shot at being on the top of the GOP ticket in 2012. Gimme a break. The woman can barely string together a coherent sentence without written remarks in front of her. She’s given one (ONE!) press conference since […]

Political junkie, that is. I never claimed otherwise. I’ve even infected my wife. You should have seen us during the last weeks of the election, sitting in the living room with our laptops blazing, checking out polls at Pollster, Gallup, 538.com, & Electoral-Vote.com, and reading and writing for the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos and Bob Cesca’s Goddam Awesome […]

Home sick from work today having finally succumbed to a nasty cold. So here I am, in my jammies, checking the innernets for schtuff, and I find that Sarah Palin thinks that most of the unflattering things that were said about her came from bloggers “sitting in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas”. Then I watched this little tidbit that […]

Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats Just minutes after their party’s longstanding losing tradition lay in tatters on the ground, millions of shell-shocked Democrats stared at their television screens in disbelief, asking themselves what went right. For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night’s results were […]

This is one of the coolest things to come out after the election that I have seen yet. Nearly 1,000 front pages from newspapers all over the world from November 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States of America. Very, very cool. Obama Grabs Headlines I’m just sayin’…

Yup. According to Georgia Republican congressman, Paul Broun. “It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I […]

This is pure brilliance. It’s so absolutely absurd that, if it weren’t serious, it would be nothing but total satire. But the thing is, the guy that wrote the following piece of…of… Jesus, I don’t even know what to call it… was being serious. Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He […]

This Washington Post article made me smile broadly. Read it and smile: Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts […]