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Jon Stewart should have gotten the Meet the Press gig

Why is a comedy/variety show interview so much more in-depth, thoughtful and informative than anything you see on CNN, MSNBC, or any of the other main news networks?  Why is it only someone like ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:33:00 GMT

Feast

We played host for the family for Thanksgiving this year.  It was really nice to not have to pack the girls up for traveling, but the exchange for that is that I do all the cooking.  Which,&...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:02:00 GMT

Capitalist porn

First, I must admit that I have read Atlas Shrugged.  Three times.  The first two times I couldn't make it through the obnoxiously long John Galt manifesto that interrupts the book.  Th...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:16:00 GMT

New favorites...

One of my new favorite installations in my Google reader is Ta-Nahesi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic.  I liked his writing already, but I developed an internet crush on him recently when he ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:36:00 GMT

Ladies & Gentlemen, Ms. Nellie McKay

Have I posted this before?  I can't remember.  I ran across this again and still think it's fun:
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Going to Grant Park

Got my ticket.  Going to the Obama partay.  Taking my camera.  Leaving in an hour.  Holy cow.  I feel like a kid at Christmas.
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Can’t wait to use this excuse for my next parking ticket...

Todd Palin, "First-Dude" of Alaska, is refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Alaska Legislature that compels him to provide testimony in the matter of his wife's *cough* *alleged* abuse of ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Raise your hand if you think senile dementia is a great qualification for POTUS!

Talking Points Memo is all over this story like white on rice.  The very brief summary is that McCain is too damn confused to be preznit.  He was being interviewed on a Spanish language radi...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:52:00 GMT

Remember how Bush/McCain wanted to privatize Social Security?

Just think about what would have just happened to the retirement income of millions of U.S. citizens within the past couple of days.  Yep, right down the toilet with the rest of Wall Street....
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:28:00 GMT

...and well played, Harry Reid

I've been somewhat disappointed with Harry Reid since 2006.  I thought that after the Dems took the House and Senate he would sack up and start making some waves.  He did not.  However,...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:03:00 GMT