Aside from the fact that I can’t understand why people would turn to blogs to follow a news story like the Ft. Hood shootings when they could just, you know, go to the actual news sources that are being paraphrased… I just want to point out that somewhere tonight in America there is a rightwing [...]

No new pictures of the boys this week so I went back into the archives and while piddling around I decided that I could use a little Satchmo right about now. Of course that just re-opens up that big empty space in me that will probably never be filled. What I do for art. I [...]

The suspiciously French sounding Veronique de Rugy warns that Nancy Pelosi’s To Serve Mankind With Affordable Health Care is actually a cookbook, and that tens of millions of Americans are about to see their future windfalls realized from those sweet high paying jobs floating around out there get taxed all to shit. In order to [...]

Home late again. Let’s get started: My Ever Changing Moods – Style Council Echos Myron – Guided By Voices Ce Matin La – Air Love Is Strange – Everything But The Girl Out of Sight – Spiritualized Baby Watch Your Back – Nellie McKay Carolina Rain – Ryan Adams Wings – The Golden Palominos Phonytown [...]

Caught up, as I was, in all the food folks and fun of NY23 (represent! holla!) I failed to take notice of the equally important race in NYC District 6 where voters elected to not take the ‘Load less traveled: Joshua Goldberg — Lucianne’s son and Jonah’s brother — has been trounced. Trounced. This was [...]

Erick Erickson on Oct 16th: In New York 23, the conservative movement has made it a Hill to Die On. Here, in New York of all places, the conservative movement will tell the GOP that it will either win with conservatives or lose without them. Conservatives across the spectrum of conservatism from Fred Thompson to [...]

The Lovely & Talented Casey just called me from that crazy tropical Catholic college she attends to tell me that the Dean of Students emailed her to say that she needs to speak to the L&T about a “judicial matter”. I advised Casey to immediately interrupt the Dean at the start of the meeting and [...]

Oh Sweet Jesus. This is not the first time K-Lo has gone to the mat in the service of journalism. Sorry. I couldn’t resist. Okay. I’m not sorry. Not in the least.

Republican King Maker Erick Ericksonoferickerickson reports (with pictures) that one of imminent Emperor of the World Doug Hoffman’s loyal subjects was violently assaulted with a sharp pointy thing in a poll station parking lot. Scozzafava MafiACORN thugs , no doubt! On his third trip to the polls, a Hoffman supporter and poll watcher had his [...]

Gun Counter Gomer uses an impressive 1000+ words to finally get around to saying that he is open to taking up arms against the Northern Aggressors if they free the slaves offer uninsured people a public option for health care. Ultimately, laws are only lawful if the govern find them fair and justified. All else [...]