Nonnie over at Hysterical Raisins has a great poster up today depicting the California gubernatorial slugfest between Jerry Brown and billionaire Meg Whitman. In my original Queen Meg In Wonderland post three months ago, I noted that she had already donated some $71 million of her own money to her campaign. Nonnie provides an update on that amount by pointing …
We can hope, can’t we? Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware, running as a member of the Republican Party. Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …
Shiver me timbers and I be shiverin yers From The Devil’s Brethren: the Evolution of Pirate Counter Culture in the Caribbean, by Timothy L. Sullivan: [P]irates…were a relatively conservative population with a mix of traditional and progressive characteristics. They were egalitarian, with little differentiation between the members of the crews; democratic in decision making, electing captains and deposing them when …
I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar and I didn’t know it. I mean, there was a little blood there and stuff like that. We went to …
Wow, you know the Teabagger crazy train has really run off the rails when Karl Rove gets in a fight with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh over his dissing of their party’s candidate for a critical senate seat. Rove told a devastated Hannity, who has been singing senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell‘s praises, that she doesn’t evidence basic character traits like “rectitude, …
Since First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled her Let’s Move! program to fight obesity, a cackle of fat cat conservatives have attacked her efforts as just another Obama assault on the personal freedoms and liberties of french fry-loving, overweight Americans.
Newton Leroy Gingrich announced that “there should be no mosque near ground zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.”
