As poster John Steiner has already noted, John McCain's campaign has decided the only thing that will save its bacon now is what MSNBC calls a "fiercer strategy" -- in other words, more negative ads.

The question is how. The MSNBC article quotes an unnamed McCain campaign spokesperson as saying… Read full post »

lgranzyk, in a recent post about many subjects, tagged the post with a number of tags, one of which was "q-tips." I couldn't help myself, I had to click on the tag. And I found that was the only post using that tag.

Have you heard the… Read full post »

Focus on the Family, the influential fundamentalist media empire headed by Dr. James Dobson, will lay off 46 employees after sales of videos, books and other products failed to meet expectations, an article in the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

The Colorado Springs company -- which has radio,… Read full post »

Comedian Chris Rock on Larry King last night:

ROCK: The big thing right now is the economy. And people are going broke. And here: The choice isn't Republican or Democrat. The choice is you got a guy that's worth $150 million with 12 [sic] houses against a guy who's worth

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Because I made the unfortunate choice to watch a network television program, I've just seen this insane Microsoft commercial for about the sixth time.

 It's so freaking annoying! "I'm a PC." "I'm a PC." "I'm a PC and I wear glasses." "I wear glasses." "I wear glasses...." God, shut… Read full post »

A Colorado delegate to last month's Republican National Convention who loves uttering jingoistic, aggressive statements was taken to the cleaners by an opportunistic prostitute to the tune of over $100,000.

A sampling of his wit and wisdom:

Schwartz was candid about how he envisioned change under a… Read full post »

With the U.S. economy quickly resembling a banana peel under the economic elephant of the rest of the world, it's time to look back at those crazy days of the late 1970s, when the American erection that had hardened ever since the days of World War II… Read full post »

Fooling around on this site, I clicked on "Topics" at the top of the page and then on several random tags -- religion, sex, mccain, and so on. I noticed  each tag has its own URL, so that if you click on a Topic, say "sex," you'll go to a page… Read full post »

As Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas Gulf Coast, I'm thinking about the suburb known as the Clear Lake area, a mostly affluent zone that includes places like Nassau Bay, League City, Clear Lake City, Seabrook and the other towns around Clear Lake, which feeds into Galveston Bay. The… Read full post »

I was walking last evening with a friend of mine through Glen Park, a yuppified San Francisco neighborhood that has seen its share of the recent shootings and other violence that have plagued the city this summer. As we passed a trendy French restaurant, she remarked, "What with all the shootings… Read full post »

As the 2008 hurricane season goes on and storms tear through the Caribbean, many of them bear down on the U.S. naval base and terror prison at Guantanamo Bay.

When I think about the Guantanamo prison, the pictures that come to mind, like this one illustrating an… Read full post »