Tuesday, October 26, 2010
[Thanks, Ezra Klein] What’s doubly ironic about this is that it is a positive ad. And yet oh so devastating.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
“Clarence Thomas’s wife this week on Saturday morning calls up Anita Hill 19 years later to ask her to apologize. Drunk dial much? And she did the right thing. She apologized. She said I’m truly sorry you’re married to Clarence Thomas.” – Bill Maher “Clarence Thomas’s ex-girlfriend came forward to say Anita Hill was right, […]
Three Republican candidates — Meg Whitman, Rick Scott, and Linda McMahon — have collectively spent $243 million dollars of their own money on their campaigns. Yes, almost a quarter of a billion dollars. That’s more than the combined spending during this election of the US Chamber of Commerce, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, and major union […]
The Center for Public Integrity has an interesting report called “Stimulating Hypocrisy”. It is well known that many of the same politicians who voted against the stimulus bill (and continue to call it a waste of money) simultaneously worked hard to direct that money towards their own pet projects. I guess I can’t blame them, […]
A report in the LA Times documents an interesting fact — organized religion is on the wane in the US. The number of people who say they have no religious affiliation is increasing dramatically. For decades, only 7% of the population claimed they had no religion, but after around 1990 the number started growing, hitting […]
Saturday, October 23, 2010
One of the original founders of the tea party movement says that the Tea Party has been “hijacked” by the very people it was protesting. You can tell how far away he is from what is now called the Tea Party, because he still has a sense of humor. Karl Denninger declared that he “ought […]
David Michael Green has a brilliant rant about the Tea Party. Here are (too many) choice quotes, but the whole (fairly short) article is worth a read. It’s ironic, to begin with, that the ones who are bitching loudest today are precisely the people who created the mess we’re in. The astonishing irony here is […]
Alec Baldwin is absolutely fantastic in this PSA:
You want to talk a little foreign money in politics? George Soros has admitted to donating $1 million to Media Matters for America. – Rush Limbaugh How wrong can Limbaugh get it? Well, first of all, Soros announced that he was donating money to Media Matters, which he didn’t have to do. Unlike all those […]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Early voting is allowed in 32 states and has started in most of them. My wife and I already voted a couple of days ago, and it is nice to have that out of the way. At least one-third of all ballots this election will be cast before election day. Once you have voted early […]
