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.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Fruit Flies 2, Sarah Palin 0

Hmm … I’m beginning to think the DNC has burrowed a mole deep in the McCain-Palin campaign. We know Palin’s not very bright, but aren’t her...

Whoopise-daisy!

So, the rightosphere, desperate for something to change the narrative of this election (John McCain gets throttled by 150 EV), glommed on to...

Palin's "Policy Speech"

So Miss Wasilla is going to give a "policy speech" on special needs children. 1) Since when do veep nominees give "policy sp...

"Go Visit Grandma"?

Keith Olbermann and Sam Seder rightly take down the GOP hack who sneered at Barack Obama for visiting his dying grandmother. There are rati...

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Good to be back

Tired though. First, I am never flying again. I'm on the window in a two-across aisle. Not bad, until Mrs. Jabba the Hut sits down. She ...

McCain Sticks a Fork in Himself...

He knows he's done... John McCain's election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng ...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Sarah Palin: McCain’s Train Wreck

Remember the fake outrage generated by Bill Clinton’s $500 haircut? At the time it was spun by his opponents as an example of elitist excess...

John McCain's gamble and why he's doing it

Yesterday, I posted about John McCain's bizarre focus on Pennsylvania given the difficult odds he faces there. The more I think about i...

So you don't have to

Browsing the hilarity over at the Corner on NRO, I ran across this question: Biden vs. Palin [Ed Whelan] How is it that anyone can believe...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

New widget theft

You may have noticed the countdown clock at the upper right. I shamelessly stole it from Schmidlap's "Fuck Off, Chimpy" clock...

Two weeks out

Crunch time, ladies and gentlemen. The last week has seen the race tighten a bit, but not a whole lot. There has not been a lot of movemen...

Monday, October 20, 2008

Just a quick break from politics for a moment

Last night the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays defeated the Boston Red Sox in the 7th game of the American League Championship Series. In doing so, ...

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Powell

I respect the thoughts that Carlos has about Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama today, but I must say that it means little to me...

Colin Powell: A Deal-Closing Endorsement

It is often correctly assumed that high-profile endorsements are of limited utility to the candidate being endorsed. Such endorsements might...

Greetings from San Francisco

I awoke to news of the Colin Powell endorsement, and the front page of the SF Chroniche had the front page pic of the Obama rally in St. Lou...

50 cents

That's it. That's what Barack Obama raised in September. From every man, woman, and child in the United States. $150,000,000 in o...

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Better Late than Never

This Sunday, the celebrated Chicago Tribune for the first time in its history is endorsing a Democrat for president, Senator Barack Obama o...

Friday, October 17, 2008

You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them.

I would like to retire two hackneyed phrases from this campaign season. No more people should be "thrown under the bus." And hence...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Joe the Plumber? Joe the TOOL

Since McCain brought up “Joe the plumber” in the debate the guy, inevitably, has become a media darling. It seems this is precisely what the...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

A few debate thoughts

I wish Obama would hit back on the whole $3 million projector earmark. The planetarium must have helped educate millions of children in math...

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