Posts by jason330

After some words of welcome, the President goes right for the media's soft underbelly.

Clearly, we’re already in the beginning months of another long, lively election year. There will be gaffes and minor controversies, be hot mics and Etch-a-Sketch moments. You will cover every word that we say, and we will complain vociferously about the unflattering words that you write -- unless, of course, you're writing about the other guy -- in which case, good job. (Laughter.)

The guy is a master at that, and the press eats it up. I giggle when I try to image Mittron Romneybot trying to pull off a natural sounding joke.

I can't look away from the train wreck that is Sarah Palin. Her Today Show appearance opened up with Palin giving an endorsement (of sorts) of Mitt Romney.

The law of unintended consequences is a cruel mistress. I wonder what transparently partisan Republican a-hole, Antonin Scalia, is going to have to say if/when the health insurance industry in America collapses and is replaced by a nationalized single payer system?

It is probably too dreary today to watch this TED TALK again, but perhaps not. "The immersive ugliness of our everyday environment in America is entropy made visible." Oil company subsidies, Zimmerman, Romney, our desperate County Sheriffs and teabag zealots clawing for meaning in the brutalist wasteland of talk radio and Walmart parking lots - the thing that ties all of our modern psychopathies together is our shitty architecture.

Thank God (or the FSM if you so desire) for elections. Because we still have elections, Dems still figure out how to be on the right side of an issue every once in a while.

Keynes always wins in the end. "The primaries have been great for the economy. Dimwitted billionaires are dumping money they don’t need into the campaigns of people who can’t win, providing much-needed jobs for ad-writers, poll-takers and yard-sign manufacturers."

Whenever I need a little pick me up, the GOP's horrible Presidential candidate always comes through. Here is the story that goes with the headline.

WASHINGTON - Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement: "The one thing that all of our current national problems and concerns have in common is that…