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, June 05, 2009

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court...

If I hear one more bloviating talking head say that the function of the judiciary is to "interpret" the law rather than to "m...

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Because we can't see this picture enough

Because abortion is always simple

During the 2004 Presidential Debates, the giggling murderer replied to a question about abortion by saying that it was a simple issue, and t...

Twenty Years

We were watching TV In Tiananmen Square Lost my baby there My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She was a short order pastry chef In a...

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Was Air France Flight 447 Brought Down by Turbulence?

From the Christian Science Monitor comes a fascinating report on meteorological analysis of the stricken airliner's flight path. The li...

Operation Rescue Connection Found to Dr. Tiller Assassin

Kansas City, MO KKMBC reports that Dr. Tiller's murder suspect Scott Roeder had a handwritten phone number on his dashboard to Operation...

Tea (and death) for the Tiller-man

I'm sure you have all heard about the shocking murder of Dr. Tiller IN CHURCH. The silence from the right is deafening. There is little ...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

HELLO: Shout-Out to the 44% of Women Who Didn't Vote Obama

Have you heard what the white males in your party/paranoiac ideology of choice have been saying about Sonia Sotomayor, the distinguished jud...

Is she pro-choice? Is she not?

Already this is circulating because Judge Sotomayor has not written an abortion opinion. Guess what? In a Roe v. Wade world, there aren...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Supremes

I have read many of Sonia Sotomayor's opinions. While she is not a "knock your socks off, wow that is brilliant" jurist, she i...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

On the lighter and stupider side...

I saw this headline on the MSN page: 'Jon & Kate' spouses say they're angry at media Oh really. Now I would have never heard...

President Obama Makes Historic SCOTUS Nomination

Judge Sonia Sotomayor represents the changing face of America. Her life story is compelling and mirrors the President's in many ways: Sh...

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Hélio Castroneves of Brasil (Natch): 3-time Indy 500 Champion!

I'd gone out when the race was halfway over and Hélio was sitting in 5th, only to come back and see him in front of the pack by 1.1 sec...

Friday, May 22, 2009

Right Wing Radio's Waterloo: "ABSOLUTELY TORTURE"

This is the Chicago shock jock, Mancow Muller, who once called President Obama a Muslim, and who has incessantly shouted the right wing (rad...

Is Dick Cheney the Most Hideously Traitorous VEEP since Aaron Burr?

Worse, I'd say. At least Burr was a better shot. Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday was filled with so many lies that it would be impossible...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

No we can't! No we can't!

Beer tax on tap for health care? WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers in the United States may have to hand over nearly $2 more for a case of beer to...

Science and Bad Movies

Tom Hanks was on The Daily Show last night to talk about Angels and Demons, and the discussion into the science of antimatter was, not to p...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A delightful Sean Hannity Ass-Kicking

Kudos Jesse Ventura! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMuDN9Ewyc

And in this corner...

We have Randy Rossi of Grayslake, Illinois. This constitutional scholar demonstrated his brilliance to the world this morning in the local p...

Monday, May 18, 2009

Nancy Pelosi the Target of Right Wing Sexism

It comes as no surprise that sexism is alive and well in the male-dominated worlds of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, right wing radio, and ...

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