Posts by jason330

There are tons of giggles in this classic of the Celia Cohen genre. Here are a few samples:

"It's like asking you to choose between your three favorite children (Barney,Rochester, Short). They're not children. They're wonderful adults...."

..but, seriously, don't ever forget who's your daddy.

"Pull for the home team. We're all part of Carper town," Carper said.

I feel like Carper resisted throwing in a wink at EL Somnambulo here and when he said "Carper Town" instead of Carperdyne Industries, Inc.

"You know sometimes, like people try to vote more than once? I think in this case I'd like to vote at least three times. I'd get in trouble doing that," Carper said.

Stop. my sides.... As for me, I'm all about...

There is a lot of dumb head-scratching on the right about how Trump became the nominee. Most pundits are saying that the non-Trump opponents in the race "started too late"…

When people act like MSNBC is some kind of liberal version of Fox News I want to throw up. Does Fox News have a morning show hosted by some liberal shill for Bernie Sanders in the same way MSNBC has a morning show hosted by a conservative who doesn't even try to disguise his love and admiration for Donald Trump? Of course not. Does Fox News have its own version of Chris Matthews, a man who said that Hillary Clinton should pick John Kasich to be her running mate....?

This is what Chris Matthews sounds like after he's been huffing way too much of that Tip and the Gipper, bipartisan, magical fairy dust during MSNBC's Super Tuesday election coverage. Apparently Matthews think the potential Democratic nominee for president of the United States needs to pick an anti-choice, anti-labor, trickle-down, gives tax cuts to the rich on the backs of the working class, former Lehman Brothers executive as a running mate in order to get elected.

Because I set up a uniquely glitchy system for picking, I ended doing some auto picking for Delaware Dem based on the chalk last year when we made our picks. Surprisingly Jeb! remained on the board late into the drafting. Less surprisingly, so did Donald Trump. Nobody paid much attention to Trump back then as the result of his threats to run in three prior Presidential races. My hand hovered over my keyboard and I literally said, "I can't do that to him" when I passed on Trump and gave Del Dem Bush instead. Sorry about that DD, but who knew? Flash forward 12 months and Trump is about to wrap up this thing up and if picked, would be sitting on 365 points. Crazy old world. I'll update the standings sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, if you want to sit on the edge of your seat, consider this: If Rubes crashes and burns in Florida (as expected) and quits prior to (around) March 29th - then I win. If he drags his ass into April, then Newton wins.

[Editor's Note: I floated this idea on my FB page last night.  I grant that is it naive, so it is abundantly trollable.  But my question is an honest one. …

I remember the 1980's very clearly and neither Nancy nor Ronald Reagan were in any sense advocates when it came to fighting the aids epidemic. My take is that Secretary…

From Robert Reich's awesome Facebook: I’ve spent the last day in Washington, where Democrats are quietly gearing up to negotiate a “tax amnesty” for American-based global corporations that have parked…

This may be a very short running recurring feature. I doubt it makes it to "Item #2", but for now...Colin Bonini is MUCH better than John Carney in one area: civil forfeiture.

Last night I dreamt that Jeb Bush came up to me wearing a dodgy looking campaign swag style sweat shirt. White with some coffee drips down the front. He was…

How can President Obama appoint a Supreme Court Justice and finish off the Republican Party, tearing out their lungs street fighter style? Easy. Register as a Republican. GOP Senators are openly saying that they'd confirm a pick at this point in the term of the Republican President, so call them on it. It would lay the coup de grâce on that punch-drunk staggering waste of space called the GOP and flip the court in the direction of sanity as if by magic. Of course, Obama would have to live and socialize among the worst bottom feeding drecks of humanity, but look at the payoff? Doesn't he love America? This is his opportunity to show it.

During a Thursday morning radio interview, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) candidly explained that Senate Republicans would take a different approach to a Supreme Court nominee if a Republican president were in office and replacing a conservative justice.