Slim Shady
Too Fit to Be President (Wall Street Journal) But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits...
View ArticleParty of Stupid
Know-Nothing Politics. (Paul Krugman Editorial @NY Times) And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as...
View ArticleWhat does Cokie Roberts have against Don Ho?
Cokie: Hawaii Too Foreign For Obama. (TPM) This is the sort of mind-numbingly banal observation that passes for political analysis these days. Tut-tutting over the timing of Barack Obama’s family...
View ArticleFootsies
Seriously, Team Obama, WTF are you guys doing standing there with your hands in your pockets? Slam a stiff drink, take a deep breath, and get out on the dance floor. Pretend Dick Cheney is about to...
View ArticleBig ideas
“Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor-of-the-day
To the Editor: Dear Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Paulson: My student loans are too big and it is hurting the economy. Can I have a bailout, please? I need $92,000. Thanks. Nathan Kottke St. Paul, Sept. 17,...
View ArticleA wish
I truly hope the Vice Presidential debate is cancelled. For the sake of humanity. Oh yeah, and the current VP can suck my hairy, bedraggled nut sack.
View ArticleDaily Show strikes again
Also, Dick Cheney had some heart issues today. Hope that turns out OK. We want him alive in case of prosecution.
View ArticleColin4BFF FTW
Colin Powell Endorses Obama. (Huff Post) The Fox News headline for this footnote in history will most likely read something like: “Colin Powell Says Obama ‘Will Slap America’s Bitch Up’“.
View ArticleGovernment cheese
RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion. (Politico) “With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we’re spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses,” said...
View ArticleLove me
Cheney: I’m actually ‘lovable. (Politico) Cheney conceded in an interview with CBS radio that he sometimes expresses himself “rather forcefully toward some of my compatriots, like Pat Leahy from...
View ArticleA dawning of a new era
As we usher out the current administration, we officially start the next era of bitching and moaning. But it’s worthwhile to revisit the prescience of America’s Finest News Source: During the 40-minute...
View ArticleThat’s pretty rich for a guy who is one rib-eye steak away from another...
Dick Cheney slams President Obama for projecting ‘weakness. (Politico) I haven’t posted something in this vein in some time, and was able to work in a tangential food reference as well.
View ArticleIt was marginally better than a trillion dollar war and thousands of dead people
Cheney: Telling Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself was ‘sort of the best thing I ever did.’ (ThinkProgress) MILLER: By the way, my, I also want to thank you, on the list of things I feel I should thank you for,...
View ArticlePho An Sandy
I’ve been going to this place for nearly eight years, back when it was Pho Oregon “West” (despite being only a mile from the other Pho Oregon at NE 82nd Ave). The interior is spartan. You are...
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