Month: April 2009

GOP Sinks Like a Stone in California

I guess it is an artifact of the post-2000 census redistricting plan in California which emphasized creating safe congressional districts, but the Golden State-GOP has been largely immune to the massive setbacks seen in other...

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Obama Calls for Ban on Nuclear Weapons

Echoing Ronald Reagan, President Obama calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Even as a North Korean rocket launch upstaged his ambitious, if not realistic, call to action in the heart of Eastern Europe, Obama dismissed...

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On Maureen Dowd and Substancelessness

I read Maureen Dowd’s column today and it didn’t piss me off. For a moment I thought that maybe she dropped her snide irreverence because she is tired of being mocked. Something of the kind seems to have happened to...

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Open Thread

Are you tired of hearing chatter about Madonna’s child-adoption exploits?

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When Wingnut BS Goes Bad

As far as I know, I’ve never once heard President Obama ever utter the words “I plan to ban all guns.” Never. Of course, that hasn’t stopped legions of morans on the right from claiming that Obama has a...

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