Archive for April 23rd, 2009
Late Night Music Video: The Breeders – Walk It Off
Off their latest album, Mountain Battles – yes, the Breeders are still together and still touring. I saw them at the TLA and verily did they rock out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcWMFzR1ge4[/youtube] nobody’s allowed to fight; ’til the band starts playin’ tonight.
No Mexicans Allowed
…unless you are there to cut the grass. Headquarters Happy Hour Join us next Friday, May 1 from 5pm-7pm for the First Friday Headquarters Happy Hour at Republican State Headquarters on Lancaster Pike in Wilmington. The theme will be Cinco de Mayo, and we’ll have Mexican food and drinks. Bring a friend and stop by […]
War is Over?
One of my all-time favorite bloggers, Tennessee’s Southern Beale has a great post from the Radical Right saying that war is over. You got it, even though we have soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Bush is considered a “War President”, somewhere between Jan. 19th and Jan 20th, the United States went from being a […]
Open Source Open Letter To Celia Cohen
Looks like Celia Cohen is back to blogging. I’d like to lay down some ground rules so that the blog community can welcome her back without misgivings, so I’ve drafted an open letter to her that I’d like you guys to help me shape up a bit. We all know that blogger ethics are a […]
A Lethal Mixture: Science and the Radical Right
Earlier this month Alabama’s à la Rob wrote about a new “textbook” for homeschoolers, Facts, Nor Fear: Teaching Children About The Environment. It’s really not humorous when non-scientists delve into science. It is valuable as a model of propaganda technique in general, and of anti-regulatory rhetorical strategies in particular. Its method mostly consists of amassing […]
Thursday’s Open Thread
Sorry, we missed yesterday. Roger Cohen in the New York Times says: So I’m wary of the clamor for retribution. Congress failed. The press failed. The judiciary failed. With almost 3,000 dead, America’s checks and balances got skewed, from the Capitol to Wall Street. Scrutiny gave way to acquiescence. Words were spun in feckless patterns. […]
Mike Castle Needs His Ass Kissed
I knew this would not stick… GOOD-BYE FROM GRAPEVINE Posted: Aug. 1, 2008 Delaware Grapevine is shutting down. It has lasted six years, as long as it can under precarious financial circumstances. Thanks to everyone who said in that singsong way, ” I loooove the Grapevine.” Thanks to everyone who groused, “Can’t you write more?” […]
Stripping Away Child Rights (and clothes) In The Name Of Our War On Drugs
For quite some time I have been following the Supreme Court’s case involving the 13 year old girl who was strip searched because she was accused (falsely) of handing out prescription Advil. I haven’t written about this until now because, honestly, it upsets me too much. As the mother of a soon to be 12 […]
BofA Covered Up Merrill Problems Under Orders From Bernanke & Paulson
WSJ reports… Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. — a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA — according to testimony by Kenneth Lewis, the bank’s chief executive. Mr. Lewis, […]
El Nombre de El Somnambulo es Mucho Grande
El Somnambulo wants a new nick name. Add your suggestions to this thread and I shall post a poll mañana, so that we may annoint him a new alias. Muchas Gracias.
Pulling a Norm Coleman
Back in the early 2000s, there was this dick of a senator from Pennsylvania named Rick Santorum. He was such a schmutz that words like dick , schmutz, asshole, etc. could not encompasses his Santorumness. This lead sex-columunist Dan Savage to start a contest to define what santorum means. Go to the Wikipedia article to […]
Miss California: Just a Good Wholesome Christian with a Boob Job
Yep, suhprize, suhprize, Miss Holier Than Thou will be an introducer tonight on the Dove Gospel Music Awards show. And, just like that, the Religious Right has a new cause celebre. “She would’ve won if she hadn’t expressed her honest views.” Yes, and Miss Mississippi would’ve won if she hadn’t supported cross-burnings. Granted, there is […]
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Edisonkitty: Should we prosecute those responsible for torture in the last administration?
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