Okay, even on his worst day, a President Obama is better than a President McCain. This doesn’t mean people on the left should drink the Obama Kool-Aid. In the last week alone, Sen. Obama has done three things to piss me off and delay writing that check. In no particular order, they are:
Went against an [...]
Finally.
When I was a kid, SNL did great political work. It was funny, irreverent, and – most importantly – offensive in an equal opportunity fashion.
I was afraid that even though the earlier SNL Clinton skits were pretty funny (the one starting out with Hil trying to get Bill out of her [...]
What Hunter and Natasha said.
It’s going to be a looooong fall.
Watch this:
It was refreshing for Toobin to outright call Clinton dishonest. And Cafferty’s incredulousness over the whole affair is well put. In what we like to call “the real world,” people ARE mad as hell, and they not only know they’ve been screwed, but WHO’S been doing the screwing. Obama is [...]
(Picture courtesy What They Play)
Yes, that’s right. Little Timmy’s mom and dad would rather him see someone’s head get severed or blown off that to <gasp> see a little hetero boot-knockin’ or <horror! unspeakable horror!> two men engaged in a passionate kiss.
What the fuck is wrong with this country? I for one would MUCH rather [...]
Holy shit, this was a fantastic speech.
I’m not ashamed to say I teared up a bit on this one. Normally I’m pretty cynical about politics and speeches in general. One doesn’t stay a political scientist for long and not, at least to some degree. But I’ll admit: what I heard in [...]
Digby has a great article on the important difference between transactional and transformational politics over at Campaign for America’s Future’s “Blog for Our Future.” Here’s the money quote from the end of the article:
Cramped transactional politics should not be used as a definition of progressivism. While they are a necessary part of the system, they [...]
Deus Ex Malcontent has put up this terrific TV Funhouse video (of SNL fame) lampooning the corporate media. Interesting tidbit, according to DEM, this video was considered by NBC Standards and Practices to be too offensive, and so was only run the once.
I’m definitely using this video in the Media and [...]
Open Left put up this video today by Michio Kaku on the Kardashev Scale:
Currently, the Earth as a whole is ranked at roughly a 0.7 on the Kardashev scale. We are not even a Type I civilization yet.
I was very intrigued by Kaku’s discussion of the evolution of structures such as [...]
