Killing Two Birdbrains With One Stone

Palin is “Religulous,” but Maher is “RiDICKulous.” Bill Maher‘s new mooovie, Religulous, is not going to make it on Sarah Palin’s “to do” list this year, or any other. And it’s a shame too, because Sarah Palin, if she had been willing to talk to Maher, would have been just the sort of interview he should have put in the …

Dispatches From The Religious Left

Shai Sachs: Dispatches from the Religious Left will be released in about a week, on Oct. 1, 2008.  The book, edited by Frederick Clarkson, contains a wide variety of thoughtful essays on what the Religious Left is and how it should move forward, including a brief chapter on new media that my wife and I co-write.  If you happen to …

Obama: DEBATE ON. UPDATED

Barack Obama said in news conference moments ago that “the president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time,” and that it was more important than ever to hold the debate as scheduled. UPDATE: Is McCain throwing a political “Hail Mary” or just hiding from a public debate?  The White House puppet will be speaking …

McCain suspends his campaign. Yawn.

McCaint covers up a yawn;  the losses on Wall Street have kept him from napping. . . .asks to postpone walking Friday’s debate, to chew gum address the financial crisis. Ben Smith: The only thing that’s changed in the last 48 hours is the public polling. Mickey Edwards: Oh, brother. What idiot came up with this stunt? It ranks somewhere …

Today’s Dilemma

I’m out sitting in the sun reading a book my wife had left on the tub.  Anne Lamott‘s Grace (Eventually). I’m just beginning page twenty when my eyes get pulled off the page by a moving blur coming towards me.    It’s two dragonflies; they’re stuck together, and by God, they are going to land on me come hell or …

I Lived In A Box.

Guess who took this picture. John McCain still thinks someone wants to put him in a box. “When you’ve lived in a box,  you “only have time for right,” says a deep cowboy voice oozing authenticity, while the orgasmically large flat screen shows the aged maverick returning to his Vietnam prison cell and “forgiving” his captors— and their nation— for, …