With little coverage in the US press, outgoing lame-duck-in-chief Bush has just basically surrendered in Iraq, and the only question is whether the thing that can be seen waving is a white flag or Bush’s tail between his legs. You would think that with all the noise during the presidential campaign about the need for “victory” […]
The Mets are building a new baseball stadium in NYC, and two years ago Citigroup paid $400 million for the rights to name it “Citi Field”. All that was before the government started pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into bailing out the ailing Citigroup. The solution is to give credit where credit is due. Two […]
A group of students at Princeton University are pushing “Princeton Proposition 8” that would ban freshmen from walking on the sidewalks, a move that, they say, would protect traditional sidewalk values. According to the group, California’s Proposition 8 has set a clear precedent for a majority to eliminate a minority group’s civil rights, and they […]
An article in the Huffington Post declares: Obama’s Election Marks The End Of Irony It points to an article in the NY Times: Irony Is Dead. Again. Yeah, Right. Famed ironist Joan Didion laments that the US in the era of Obama has become an “irony-free zone” where hope “is now in”. But I am […]
© Lisa Benson I actually find this cartoon a bit stupid (even though it made me laugh). First, how many people is Obama going to find for his administration who haven’t worked in the Clinton administration? Second, isn’t complaining about this like the “guilt by association” that we found so disgusting when it was used […]
According to a Gallup Poll released yesterday that asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who they wanted to see nominated for president in 2012, the number one pick was Sarah Palin. Just thinking about Palin as president makes my eyes wobble. Of course, such polls are meaningless — polls just a year ago showed that most […]
The Center for Media and Democracy presents a startling indictment of TV news stations, who use video segments produced by PR firms for corporate clients and present them as their own news stories: A station in New York showed — as news — a video produced for a drug company that touted their new supplement […]
Wondering why counting votes in close elections takes so long? Wondering why Missouri only finalized their presidential vote yesterday? Minnesota Public Radio has an excellent article about the difficulties inherent in counting votes. The law in Minnesota says that a vote should count if the “intent of the voter” can be determined, but this is […]
Sarah Palin goes to a turkey farm for the annual pardoning of the turkey, but then gives an interview while turkeys are slaughtered right behind her (apparently with her knowledge):
A reader points out two interesting tidbits in the Obama half-hour “infomercial” that aired just before the election. I didn’t get either of these, but I wonder if other people noticed them. One was the story of a retired “elderly” couple where the man had to go back to work at the age of 72 […]
The CEOs of Ford, Chrysler, and GM went to DC today to beg for $25 billion in bailout money, but Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York points out the irony of how they got there: There is a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them […]
From Andy Borowitz. Bush in Race against Time to Wreck Country Legacy of Destruction at Stake Confounding the conventional wisdom that he is a lame duck president with no agenda as his days in office dwindle, President George W. Bush is redoubling his efforts to mutilate the country before his term expires, aides confirmed today. […]
The Presidential Pooch “President-elect Barack Obama is still looking for a new White House dog. The search is on. In fact, do you realize he has spent more time selecting a dog than John McCain did selecting a running mate?” -Jay Leno “Barack Obama and his family are still looking for a dog for the […]
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