Zombie Politics

We have definitely entered the Twilight Zone. I spent a lot of time watching the news last night and one thing really stood out at me. After...

As I was driving to Wisconsin last Friday night, I tuned into WPR and listened to the debate. Aside from the disagreements with policy and h...

Holy crap, this is the funniest fucking thing I have seen in a long time. Zoom forward to the 6 minute mark and watch from there. Racing to ...

In what has to be the finest example of acting I have seen in a long time, John McCain is trying to postpone Friday's debate in order to...

Hey...guess what? The 2008 Official Republican Party Platform opposes bailouts of private companies. We do not support government bailouts o...

I started posting on Kevin Baker's blog again. It's been fun so far. We've been discussing the current financial crisis and I w...

Many are wondering these days why there is so much attention paid to Sarah Palin. I think the main reason for this is John McCain is old an...

Someone just sent me this email. It sums things up quite nicely. If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exo...

Click on the image for better clarity. It really sums up the elitist bullshit argument, the complete and utter refusal to..um...evolve, thei...

A recent article in the New York Times fully and completely details , through a series of conversations on a plane, where Barack Obama stand...

The economy is back as the top story of the election and thank God. It's about time. To put it simply, the American economy doesn't ...

Well, we knew it had to happen. The Republicans would be pulling their usual bullshit in Ohio. Apparently, the McCain campaign re-wrote the...

Usually on this day I have plenty to say. This year, I don't. I've been checking out the news and watching the memorials and quite h...

Remember that whole brouhaha we all had a while back about who supports the troops more-McCain or Obama? Check out this story from the A P. ...

One of my many passions in life is music. Actually it's a passion/obsession. As Fairuza Balk says in Almost Famous, "Any time you ...

Someone sent me t his link which we have been talking about in comments over the last few days and I thought I would bring it out front. It...

Couple things today. Take a look at the counter to the left. Obama's bounce from last week is starting to show. Let's see what the ...

I have watched the Republican National Convention this week in utter astonishment. All of the speeches, the interviews with delegates and pu...

I popped over to Kevin Baker's blog to see what was new and I found this little commentary, intermixed between the hyper paranoia of wha...

I am still trying to get my head around McCain's pick for VP. What was he thinking? I suppose she might get more of the base to turn out...