Month: September 2011

Casual Observation

Yup. No one gives a crap about the Palins anymore. They used to be a spectacle. Now their brand of stupid has gone mainstream. We don’t need to watch the Palins to see what kind of car wreck will result. Our whole country...

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Help the President Pass His Jobs Bill

Sometime soon, most likely in mid-October, the Senate will take-up the American Jobs Act. As is the case with all contentious Senate business, this will involve a motion to invoke ‘cloture’, which is a fancy word...

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Presidential Candidates’ Killing Records

Rick Perry killed a raccoon. With hollow-point bullets. While jogging. In Austin, Texas. With his security detail. Barack Obama killed Osama Bin Laden. With Navy Seal Team Six. While joking about it the night before. At the...

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Chewing the Cud, or Infinite Rumination

Some time in the not too distant past I wrote a piece about why I could foresee the possibility of a brokered GOP convention where the delegates would have to bicker among themselves to come up with presidential and...

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Saturday Night Open Thread

Well, lookey here!! My brother has a big new article for us to read. As is his wont, he is telling us that we don’t understand population growth. The U.N. now projects that over the next 40 years, more than half (58...

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