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Rethugs Appoint Anti-Civil Rights Activist to Battle Obama’s Court Nominees
Once again, the new and improved ‘Big Tent’ party shows its true colors (hint, it’s not ‘black’) by appointing Alabama’s William Sessions to be the ranking Rethug on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions has one of the most disgusting records on race that one could have. From an excellent 2002 profile by Sarah Wildman: Sessions […]
Anna Quindlen’s Classy and Optimistic Goodbye to ‘Newsweek’
It really doesn’t get any classier than this. Reading submissions from outstanding young reporters vying for the Livingston Prize convinced Quindlen that new voices needed to be heard: The last bit of evidence arrived in the form of three binders of news clippings. Because all the submissions for the Livingston Awards have to come from […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 3
LEAD STORY-McClatchy Papers: U. S. Refugee Allies Face Deportation Due to Bush Administration Inertia Another serious mess left by the serial incompetents of the Bush Administration, this time featuring the sinister Michael Chertoff. WASHINGTON — Forced to flee his homeland because he supported America’s ideals, Tsegu Bahta thought he’d be embraced by the country he […]
‘Bulo’s Music for the Masses-Lost in the ’80’s, Vol. 2.
El Somnambulo’s favorite REM song, from back in the day when Michael Stipe had hair, and ’80’s hair at that: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ouyl7k_iU&feature=related[/youtube] REM: ‘Harbor Coat’ from “Reckoning” (1984) This aurally-gorgeous album (produced by Upper Darby’s Todd Rundgren) became even more gorgeous when artificial enhancements (such as ‘the things we did on grass’) upped the ante: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozu8KGFH-CU[/youtube] […]
‘Bulo Seeks Help from Internet Sophisticates
The Beast who Slumbers has been cruising surfing the nets for some time now. He likes to think that he is able to learn new things. He has long since figured out what ROTFLMAO and YMMV mean. He has even coined one himself, ‘IESHO’, meaning ‘in El Somnambulo’s Humble Opinion’. He has learned all sorts of […]
Action Alert: HB 1 Scheduled for Senate Hearing
The new Senate committee meeting notices have been posted, and HB 1 is scheduled for consideration in the Senate Executive Committee next Wednesday. Karen Peterson’s SB 57 is also on the agenda. You know what to do from here.
…Because, Of Course, Black People Really Don’t Matter
Rethug talking butthole Bryon (oops, it’s Byron, like the Lord) York says that Obama’s high job approval ratings are deceptively high b/c, well, let’s just let the Duke of York provide his own steel-trap logic: On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But […]
Withholding Sex the Key to Political Reform?
Seems like Kenyan women are recycling a strategy first pioneered in ‘Lysistrata’. In the classic comedy by Aristophanes, first performed in 411 B. C.: Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle […]
By All Means, Fix the Veterans’ Home, and Fix Every Other Delaware Nursing Home
While the News-Journal’s recent series chronicling chronic patient care problems at the Delaware Veterans’ Home is invaluable, it misses the most vital point: The same conditions found at the Delaware Veterans’ Home are prevalent at nursing facilities throughout the State of Delaware. Under the willfully-negligent leadership of Vince “The Bulldog” Meconi and Carol “It’s the […]
More Tales from the Lunatic Fringe
Two more stories you couldn’t make up even on days when you took acid by mistake. From the Moonie (aka Washington) Times: RNC to Vote on Resolution Labeling Democrats ‘Socialists’ The funding fight comes on the heels of another open challenge to Mr. Steele’s authority. Unhappy RNC conservatives secured the signatures to force the committee […]
Quote of the Day
Nobody cuts brutally to the quick quite like Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott. On the wingnuts who drove Specter out of the Republican Party, he writes: Many of them appear defiantly resigned to the Republican Party becoming a regional bastion of true believers, the Branch Davidian compound of the Confederate Jesus. The Beast Who Slumbers wishes […]
What Should (and Just May) Happen in Pennsylvania
Being out of work has its dubious perks. One of which is unfettered access to television. And that is how El Somnambulo came to watch Arlen Specter’s press conference today. There was a particularly ghoulish and joyless tone to this event. Looking somewhere between feeble and gaunt, Specter called himself ‘full of vim, vigor and […]
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Targets for 2010-Numero Uno
24th Representative District-Bill Oberle If the House Republican Caucus of the past 20 years was, as a whole, the Buffalo Springfield (it wasn’t, but bear with ‘bulo), then Bill Oberle was its Neil Young. A very skilled operator within Legislative Hall, often called upon by longtime friend Speaker of the House Terry Spence to take […]
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