Month: August 2009

Battle of Alaska

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska slaps down Sarah Palin’s pathetic effort to discuss health care. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday told an Anchorage crowd that critics of health care reform, the...

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Silly Stuff

If you haven’t seen Noz’s account of being dive-bombed by bats, you gotta take a look. And the bat wars have continued. I’m pretty sure you have to get rabies shots in these situations, just in case you got a...

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U.S. Midwest: Open Discussion

In the category of ‘You Can’t Make This Shit Up’, Michele Bachmann’s son has joined AmeriCorp through their Teach for America program. Bachmann, of course, has said that AmeriCorps is the equivalent of...

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Diagnosing the Threat from the Right

John H. Richardson of Esquire spent some quality time with the Birthers. What he has to say about them is not comforting. Others argue that the whole thing is getting overblown because it’s August — the “silly...

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The Flight of the Arrow

. To receive the President’s Medal of Freedom … Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, PhD “No one wins (in war).  Both sides lose.  The Indians, so called hostiles, won the battle of the day, but lost their way...

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