Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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The Next Rightwing Outrage?
So, is Sarah Palin running for president or what? Steve Benen tells us the next outrage that Palin is trying to start: We learned last night that President Obama expects health care reform to cost “around $900 billion over 10 years.” Obviously, that’s a considerable investment, but the president reminded Americans that this is less […]
Memorable Moments During The Speech
I’m going to tell you straight out that I thought that was one of the best speeches I’ve seen Obama give. He had a lot of goals to accomplish in the speech: reassure the wavering leftwing, make the case for reform, position himself as sensible and centrist, knock down misinformation and make the case for […]
Late Night Video: What Birthers Believe
After you watch this, the Birther movement will make perfect sense. It’s filled with logical people. h/t Balloon Juice
Transcipt of Obama’s Health Care Reform Speech
Here is the transcript for the whole speech: Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system […]
Oopsie!
Family values California Assemblyman Michael Duvall forgot didn’t know that his mic was on when discussed having sex and spanking one of his two girlfriends. BTW, both of his girlfriends are lobbyists. Here’s where I give some really good advice: when you discuss your extramarital affairs make sure your mic is off. Update: More info […]
Brandywine Arts Festival Is Cancelled
This disappointing but not surprising news just came through from the News Journal: After 48 years of tradition, there will be no Brandywine Arts Festival this weekend. With the third proposed venue for the festival announced last week, organizers could not get enough commitments from artists to go through with the festival at its most […]
Community Standards – A Call For Feedback
To me, blogging is very different than other sources of news and information. Blogging is not like a newspaper or TV news – it’s a conversation between the bloggers and the community. We as contributors don’t feel like we “own” the stories, we are conversation starters. We don’t want people to feel intimidated to join […]
Video Of Obama’s School Speech
Fear the socialism! The transcript was released earlier. Here’s the video: I think the uproar over the speech actually insures that more people watch it than would have otherwise. I hope this helps to bring down the temperature of our political debate a little bit.
Sign The Petition
I got this email from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. Please sign the petition if you haven’t already. The more signatures we can get, the better. We need to let Congress know that paranoid teabaggers are the minority and not the majority. Today at 5pm is the deadline to add your name to our petition asking […]
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
Seattle is opening the country’s first in-patient center for the treatment of internet addicition. The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer […]
Obama’s Labor Day Speech
President Obama gave a speech in Cincinnati for Labor Day. He gives us a little preview of some of the things he may talk about in his Wednesday speech before Congress. I have to admit that it’s promising. I’ve excerpted part of the speech about health care reform. You can read the whole transcript at […]
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