The Thinker--or Just Sitting Around?

I've wondered about Rodin's famous sculpture. Is he engaged in deep thought or sitting around wasting time? And why isn't he wearing pants? I ask the same of myself. Here we comment on well, mostly politics. Or we may just sit! If you like it, tell a friend. If not, tell us, but please read the GROUND RULES before you do.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

I couldn't have said it better myself

I was getting all set to write a post about the Democratic race. It was going to be a different post than the GOP ones, because while I hav...

Monday, December 24, 2007

Holiday Greetings

I will do a couple year-end posts by 12/31 (including the promised one about the Democratic primary), but for now, I'll just wish everyo...

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Huckabee Monster--It's Alive!

We see something very interesting happening on the Right with the emergence of Mike Huckabee . The Grover Norquist crowd, the tax-cutting c...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Senior al Qaeda terrorist, or...

The Washington Post reports today on Abu Zubaida, the `al Qaeda operative' subjected to torture in the case of the missing CIA tapes. A...

Monday, December 17, 2007

Sent

It won't matter, but I thought I'd drop a few lines about the FISA bill and Harry Reid's desire to do what the Liar in Chief wan...

Friday, December 14, 2007

How to tell your ideological spectrum is a little out of whack

There's a story online about how some GOP folk want another debate in Iowa, because the one this week with the Des Moines Register left...

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Karma's a Bitch

I've been saving this one. Back in 2005, pitcher Andy Pettite decided to get preachy on Pat Robertson's website : “Every time I took...

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Please, please, please, can we run against Mike Huckabee???

Unfortunately for the Huckster, a rise in the polls means a rise in press attention, and it doesn't take long to find out that 1) he rea...

Education and Elections

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Schools s...

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Now, if you changed "lion of" to "lyin' bastard of", we could develop an understanding

A letter to the editor in the Daily Herald: A tribute to Hyde, a lion of a man In this high political season, we will do well to remember a...

Dumbassery

Last night the Atlanta Falcons played their first game since Michael Vick got sentenced to 23 months in federal court for his part in runnin...

Monday, December 10, 2007

Happy Anniversary, Mr. President

According to PollingReport.com's tracking of presidential approval polls, it was exactly one year ago this week that a poll had you at a...

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Fox jumps in on the values debate

h/t Crooks and Liars

Friday, December 07, 2007

And now, in this corner...

Annmarie Brewer of Sun prairie, Wisconsin, who presumably has a large steel plate in her skull, penned this gem : I just got through watchin...

A blast from the past

This isn't my normal fare, but it amused me. The Decatur Herald & Review is apparently publishing letters to the editor from 1982. ...

Conservative Family Values at Their Best

Longtime Thinker reader jimbow8 sent me a link to a conversation that, once again, reinforces the hypocrisy of the right, although in a dif...

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Just to clarify

Mitt, if you're going to be President, at some point you have to take the following oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will fa...

Umm, I'm not sure I see the connection there, Mittster.

Mitt Romney , during his "Don't worry that I'm a Mormon, but I'll really never talk about Mormonism" speech: Freedom r...

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Don't know much about history...

I assume you've seen this from The View , but world-famous historian Sherri Shepherd, following a mention of Greek philosophy from THE F...

What straw will break the camel's back?

Sorry for my absence, between Thanksgiving, work and the flu bug! How many more scandals can St. Rudy of 9/11 stand?

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