Today is Constitution Day, celebrating the 225th anniversary of this glorious document. Here are some items to prompt some thinking about the Constitution.
Can the local GOP get any more fun? On Sunday, the NJ wrote a story surveying the state of the local Tea Party (giving them alot of column inches even though they only pulled off one primary win and continue to be more like a reality TV show than a political force) and spoke to the leader of the Not A Witch faction of the Tea Party:
I tried to write a post on this last week - actually, I've been trying to write a lot of posts but always seem to be waylaid by another GOP misstep, gaffe, etc. Basically, there is simply too much nonsense to write about! Anyway, I waited long enough and Mistermix at Balloon Juice did my work for me!
Vanity Fair has published a must read article on 6 months in the life of President Barack Obama. Written by Michael Lewis (author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker), this is a pretty compelling look at how the President approaches his job. Obama's Way
I remember the cold war fondly. As a kid, I never thought that we were all going to be blown up. I never thought that Russians were evil or that we were even at war with "The Soviet Union." I thought we despised a very small cabal of Soviet leadership and that we weren't going to play a part abetting their injustice. It all felt like peace and prosperity to me.
State Representative John Atkins (Asshat-Millsboro), never one to shy away from controversy, is at it again. This time his stupidity endangered the life of his son. In what can only be described as black-out of responsibility, Atkins took his son on a four-hour tour of a prison where they spent most of their time in the inmate booking and receiving area.
In a gathering of the self-righteous over the weekend, who were celebrating a dying campaign, Rick Santorum said something funny and something interesting, each in its own way truthful.
The following charts compare Obama and Romney's Intrade closing numbers together. The first chart is from December 7, 2010 forward, the second is from June 1, 2012 forward and the last is from August 27, 2012 forward. You can see Romney's problem.