What if this is as good as an Obama Administration Gets?
Frank Rich, in today’s Gray Lady, asks: Who Killed the Disneyland Dream? From the link: This month our own neo-Kennedy president — handed the torch by J.F.K.’s last brotherand soon to face the first...
View ArticleWednesday Reads II
Good morning, Sky Dancers! Minkoff Minx is under the weather and needs to rest up, so I’m filling in for her on today’s roundup. Here’s hoping things ease up for her soon! I’ll start us off with some...
View ArticleBushie writes Open Letter to Obama, encourages Obama to be even more...
The caving is by design, and so is the wingnut slide further to the right of anything that makes sense. Alright, so the letter is not as blunt as I am. But, that’s how this reads to me. To appear in...
View ArticleThe Selective Mutism of the Progressive Village
This is going to be long, but it won’t work well to separate it into two posts. So I’ve divided it up into sections that you can read if it’s too much to digest in one sitting. Part I: Obama’s...
View ArticleAll Three Branches of Government are Broken
Over the past 2-1/2 years, we’ve seen how broken the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government are. We have a president who refused to stand up to the minority party while his party...
View ArticleSDB Evening News Reads for 092611: Baby, Baby, Baby…
Good evening! I have a basket full of links for you today, with so much discussion going on, it seems fitting to catch you up on things. There is still a protest going on in the Financial District of...
View ArticleAloha and thanks for all the Fish
Talk about your naughty list! When President Obama signed a budget bill on Friday, he issued a signing statement claiming a right to bypass dozens of provisions that placed requirements or restrictions...
View ArticleDoublespeak, the Devil’s Advocate and Diogenes’ Endless Quest
Just when you think current events and various public utterances cannot get any more ridiculous, they do. Often, much of what we hear and are expected to take seriously is wrapped in doublespeak,...
View ArticleSDB Evening News Reads: SOTU or STFU? Preview of Change and Hope…
That sounds like some kind of Star Wars movie title… Good Evening! Tonight is the State of the Union, and I haven’t actually seen one since George W Bush back in 2002. I’ve read them after the fact, I...
View ArticleHere’s an idea: civil rights for everyone!
You know, everyone. Including those everyones who are female. Rights are the solution to the Todd Akinses of the world, and it would be unspeakably obvious if people could remember that rights matter....
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Madman and Rocket Man
Hey, I don’t usually like or retweet David Corn…but those two tweets above made me laugh out loud. Going straight to cartoons, since I’m writing this outside in a very dark and dangerous state park...
View ArticleThursday Cartoons and Memes: RIP Richard Lewis
Good morning…what a loss. Sad news. Glad we are able to see him in this season of Curb. Richard Lewis, who mined life and neuroses for dark comedy, dies at 76 https://t.co/EPKG0iKtLL— Wajahat Ali...
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