Yesterday was a very bad day, but it would have been much worse if I didn't have superb bladder control.  When I most needed my bladder to manage the gateway between my drippy waste and the external world, it came through with a dominating, Hall of Fame performance.  My bladder wasn't… Read full post »

There's so many stories coming out about health reform that the relentless spinning is making everybody's head spin. My own sense continues to be that the Obama administration and the Congressional Democrats are going to pass health reform legislation with a public option this year. I don't know whet… Read full post »

I was glad to see Kind of Blue's call to discuss something positive some weeks ago.  I've been thinking of posting about the impact of love and this gives me a great reason to gather my thoughts together and do some writing.  It's a difficult story to tell because I doubt it'll… Read full post »

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On TPM, there's a post on Jesus leaving Christianity that was written by William K. Wolfrum during the 2008 election campaign.

. . . [I]n an announcement that has left his followers shaken, the Christ himself has come forward to announce that he is leaving Christianity, effective immediately. The rea… Read full post »

I've been thinking about all the poor conservatives who think that Barack Obama is a Stalinist, that Obama's going to set up "re-education" camps, or that he's taking "away" American freedoms by talking about "doing the right-thing" on health care.

According to Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner… Read full post »

Max Baucus finally unveiled the "Baucus Bill" on health care today and I was prepared to give Baucus credit for all of the work he and his staff did on the legislation. I'm for the public option, but I thought Baucus get credit for a sincere effort to craft a bi-partisan… Read full post »

What's someone to do who's been emotionally terrorized by evangelical Christianity? That's one of the questions posed by Max Blumenthal in a Nation article on Matthew Murray, a young man who was raised according to the strictest tenets of "movement Christianity," profoundly rejected the faith of his… Read full post »

I've been blogging for three years and one of the themes of my first year of blogging was the weenie boy masculinity of the right. Things have gotten so bad with the right that it's more accurate to characterize them as a freak show and I've done so on several occasions.  But… Read full post »

It looks like WWE CEO Linda McMahon is gearing up to run as a Republican for Christopher Dodd's Senate seat in Connecticut. That makes a lot of sense. The Republicans have been sounding more and more like professional wrestlers over the last ten years. All the Bush administration chest-beating about… Read full post »

Just saw something where Barack Obama called Kanye West a "jackass" over the Taylor Swift incident.  I bet President Obama's criticism of West is going to go over a lot better than his criticism of the Cambridge police for being stupid in the Henry Louis Gates case.  It's hard not… Read full post »

The comedian plot to take over the world continues to gain steam. First the evil comics made Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert into America's two most trusted newsmen. After taking over the news business, the comedians gained more momentum when the leaders of Comedian Central (not to be confused with "… Read full post »

I was going to title this post "Fuck the Progressive Media," but I'm still uncomfortable using the word "fuck" even though I've known what it's meant for more than forty years.  The reason "Fuck the Progressive media" is a better title is that progressives increasingly have their heads up their… Read full post »

8:07, My daughter Miss Teen and I are set up in a classroom at Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky to watch Obama's health care speech.

Thanks for the room guys.  Morehead State also wants me to remind you  that the university does not necessarily endorse anything… Read full post »

In a way, conservatives are right about President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren being indoctrination. It's indoctrination into the dominant ideology of individualism. But why do conservatives object? They believe in individualism just as much as Obama.

What I found charming about Obama… Read full post »

Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is thinking about running for governor of New York and is planning on running a classic whistle-stop railroad campaign on Amtrak. Of course, Giuliani will need the full train to carry all the closets with all the skeletons that accompany him wherever he goes. He'll also… Read full post »

Digby is one of the few white bloggers who closely follows the police abuse of tasers. Here's an extended quote from her article on Glenn Greenwald's blog today.

Tasers were sold to the public as a tool for law enforcement to be used in lieu of deadly force. Presumably, this

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For the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of media publicity about the fortieth anniversary of the Manson killings.

But it all seems forced to me.

America doesn't live in a "post-sixties" world any more. Whether we like it or not, things have changed. Not that we've forgotten the… Read full post »

I'm not sure why the Republicans are comparing health reform to Hitler, Stalin, and Joseph Mengele, or why they're talking about euthanasia and "death panels."

What they should be talking about is themselves.

By far the strongest argument against Obama's health reform plan is that the Republicans might… Read full post »

Today's Lexington Herald-Leader has a good article by sportswriter John Clay about Cedric Benson of the Cincinnati Bengals. Originally a high draft pick out of Texas, Benson was still with the Chicago Bears when he was arrested ostensibly for public drunkenness on a Texas lake. Here's the football pa… Read full post »

It looks like New York City will have to put off its parade. Four months ago, the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh announced that he was leaving the city over the imposition of a millionaire's tax and the City was planning a huge ticker tape parade to celebrate.

Back in March,… Read full post »

Tonight, I have to apologize to one of my U. S. Senators and take my hat off to the other. Hats off to Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell for achieving his goal of squeezing the last sparks of life out of Jim Bunning's career as a Senator.

McConnell didn't want Bunning to… Read full post »