Archive for April 6th, 2009
Late night music video: Flobots, “Rise”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XmsUlz2hI[/youtube]
New Rules.
Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. Writers generally and bloggers specifically tend to make use of the above referenced literary tool quite often, whether they lean left or right politically. Today we discover […]
My Response
Dave Burris called me out on his blog. I guess it would be discourteous of me not to respond, so here is my response. I stand by my post. The secessionist rhetoric, the revolt talk, and the violent imagery framed as patriotism that right-wing bloggers, pundits, and politicians like Dave Burris use for effect is […]
Levi, keepin it real
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXdyB-wAnms&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2009%2F04%2F06%2Flevi-johnston-on-tyra-sho_n_183555.html&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]”nuttin better to do then pick on little kids”
Anti-Jack Markell’s Budget Group Cools
Despite non-stop flogging by Rick Jensen, the anti-Jack Markell facebook group seems to have leveled off at around 1,110. Rick Jensen continues his breathless reports of the group’s astounding growth – but adding 199 people in a week seem rather anemic to me. As a measure of that lethargy, despite it’s 1,110 members there have […]
Quote of the Day II
President Obama steps up to the plate in Turkey and hits a double (continuing a thin baseball meme). So let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam. – President Barack Obama We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, […]
Michele Bachmann Has Serious Problems
She needs mental help, and I’m not kidding. I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go […]
I’ve said It Before… Let Them Filibuster
Via Think Progress: A reliable Justice Department source advises me that Senate Republicans are planning to “go nuclear” over the nominations of Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if the torture documents are made […]
Quote of the Day
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. – Joe DiMaggio
The Times They Are A Changin’
I expect to see gay marriage and marijuana legalized in my lifetime. (I really liked typing that sentence.) I’ve been feeling this way for quite some time, and, luckily for me, Nate Silver does the math. Nate on gay marriage: Unsurprisingly, there is a very strong correspondence between the religiosity of a state and its […]
Now This is Cool
Delaware’s coolest political event of the year just got cooler. Pam Tillis AND all proceeds this year go to the Delaware Food Bank.
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