Year: 2012

I was having dinner at Klondike Kate's tonight where a combo was playing and getting polite applause after each song. It was all very chill until the singer sang the first few notes of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and a cheer went up. To me it was pretty obvious that the crowd was cheering for the President. It was a neat little moment. Anyway, turns out...Al Green is a threat to the American way of life.

I've always thought that Democrats have a built in disadvantage when trying to go head to head against bullshit streaming from the modern Republican Party. We are sensible, open to the possibility that our views can change in response to new information, kind and optimistic. Republicans...well.... Booman breaks it down, better than I can:

That's the Rude Pundit's question.   My answer is, when we stop being ruled by idiots.

When Do We Stop Talking About Climate Change as a Theory? This is what Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Indiana, just north of Indianapolis, looks like right now:

It has taken a day or so to filter into the futures price at intrade and IEM, but you can clearly see the effect that the Bain/Tax secrecy issue is…

In the next week or so, voters in the State of Washington will be able to register to vote via Facebook. How does it work?