Stand Up, Knock It Off, Sh*t and Fall Back In It
I won't cede my fuckin' hippy bona fides to frickin' nobody.No, I wasn't stoned on Ginsberg and thrustin' like Cassidy at it's conception... I missed the acid tests by a couple of years, sure.But I was...
View ArticleI Start A Job Today, Oh Boy
The recession has been really hard on a whole lot of folks, and let me say straight up that I have been more fortunate than most, I don't have a family to look after and have otherwise ordered my life...
View ArticleBagger Headstompers Could Face Felony Assault, Sexual Assault Charges
Sorry if this had been diaried, but this piece by Yobie Bengamin of the San Fran Chronicle provided some new info to me including the identity of he bagger who tackled Lauren Valle initially.The man...
View ArticleHow Ugly Will It Get?
Like most everyone else that posts here I wanted to offer my analysis of the debacle we suffered Tuesday night but I could not get past the first sentence despite having tried several times. I'm glad...
View ArticleFor blackwaterdog
This will not be a long diary, although for four minutes or so it will be far more substantive than half the essays of far greater length that get gang recced here daily.blackwaterdog would have posted...
View ArticleFeck off, than: Newt slanders Obama again.
In a interview this morning on "Fox and Friends" Former House Speaker and Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich was informed by what appeared to be a slightly drunken Brian Kilmeade that he had just this...
View ArticleOur Narrative Has No Basis In Fact - A Rant Unhinged From Reality Without...
No matter who is to blame, I shout at the President's lawn. We can play politics all we want to, but I believe what is going on in our nation is a critical mass of deep corruption, that can no longer...
View ArticleAlan Simpson is A Mensch
No matter what you think of the President, his bipartisan commission on the deficit, or economic conservatives from big rectangular states with Rockie Mountains in them, I think that after this...
View ArticlePost Common; Hannityjob Critiques Prez's IPOD
Well, as you all know because I yammered about it until yer ears bled in another of my 40 minutes monolouges yesterday, the President and First Lady refused to disinvite dangerous radical urban black...
View ArticleMonitoring Hannityjob; The Big Lie Just Got Bigger
So I'm workin' in my landlady's garden, trying to chip a little wine spolioli money off the rent and, as per usual, I got the two dollar garage sale radio tuned into rightwing ratfuck radio...just to...
View Article"Sellout" Howard Dean: "I'm Actually Pleased With What the President Is...
If there are any progressive naval gazers out there who can detach themselves from the circle jerk progression of "OMG Obama is such an asshole" diaries that proliferate on dkos tonight like they...
View ArticleFixin' To Default Rag
After enjoying Crashing Vor's most excellent songwriting skills here I decided to get in on the fun.Below the Big Orange Cyclone of dread I give you "The Fixin' to Default Rag"...
View Article"Life's Been Good" - Rep. Joe Walsh
Man, this song parody thing is fun....see you over the squiggle...
View ArticleTwo One Trillion Dollar Coins
Jack M. Balkin - Knight Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School - has an interesting thought over at CNNAre there other ways for the president to raise money besides borrowing? Sovereign...
View ArticleBreaking: Pelosi to Vote Yea
The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that the Minority Leader will vote yes on the deficit deal.
View ArticleF**kin' Right The Deal Sucks
The GOP's decision to kowtow to their teabaggin' know-nothing base and take the debt ceiling hostage whilst simultaneously stamping their feet, holding their breath and masturbating into America's soup...
View ArticleBreaking : President Obama to Speak at annual Michigan AFL-CIO Labor Day Parade
From The Detroit Free PressWASHINGTON -- No promises that he'll join a chorus of "Solidarity Forever," but President Barack Obama is headed to Detroit to speak to thousands of union members for Labor...
View ArticleThe Late Great Molly Ivins On "Governor Goodhair""O Please, Dear God, Not...
I think all of us that read Molly Ivins loved her and lost a piece of ourselves the day she died as sure as had she been a sibling or parent.Back in the '80's when her column was a weekly regular in my...
View ArticleWhere Have You Been, Lawrence O'Donnell?
On "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" tonight Larry O., whom I generally like and respect, confounded me by airing a clip of FDR's "Let Me Warn You" speech and delighted in it as it were a...
View ArticleGo Big or Go Home: Robert Reich Calls for 500 Trillion in Infrastructure...
Proving once again that the professional left will leave no stone unturned in it's effort to trip the President up Robert Reich spat his Ritalin tonight and went on "The Last Word with Larry O."In...
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