Wait for it … wait for it ….
Scanning headlines over at Yahoo! News, I saw this headline:

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since ‘83

Conservatives will go ape-shit over the high unemployment rate under the Obama administration and ignore that St. Ronnie had the same high unemployment on his watch.
“But that was because of [...]

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Someone needs to make this a banner issue against the GOP during the next campaign cycle.
The U.S. Senate voted on an amendment which was proposed to the recent Defense Appropriations Act which would prohibit awarding of funds to any contractor which requires employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses for specific claims.
This amendment was offered specifically [...]

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The current GOP brand is a flaming bag of dog shit on the front porch of America.
Seriously.
In New York (NY-20), a 30-year veteran of the New York legislature will lose an election to a newcomer … and this is in a district with a voter registration that leans in the GOP’s favor.
I guess it beats [...]

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It’s odd to hear all of the recent references to people “going Galt.” It’s odd because the idea of Galt and Rand’s philosophy are infantile at best.
If someone wants to “go Galt” then let them. It’s a case of “I’m mad, so I’m taking my toys and going home.” As I’ve heard others note, “graveyards [...]

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Seriously, leave him alone.
Attention whores feed on attention. If you want to make the attention whore a bigger whore, then keep giving attention.
Give attention to Limbaugh and you feed the whore. Give attention to Limbaugh and you give his ideas the tacit approval that they are worthy of discussion.
Limbaugh isn’t worth the attention, because his [...]

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During the 2008 presidential election, conservative ideologues insisted that Obama’s tenuous association with William Ayers was worthy of unending scrutiny and fantastically hysterical nightmare scenarios. Sarah Palin insisted that we know more about someone who “pals around with terrorists.” It was critical.
Now we have Michael Steele, chairman of the GOP, insisting that his recent dust-up [...]

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If you had asked me 20 years ago … or even 10 years ago for my thoughts on capitalism, you would have gotten one of the most individualistic, libertarian, small government, low tax discussion about the appropriate roles of government and economics and how they integrated with each other. And it wasn’t simply a mouthing [...]

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Reading the Rocky Mountain News letters to the editor, I came across this little gem:

Intent of degrading the utility of English
Larry Breeden
… I also find it sardonically amusing that he is helping spread the knowledge of English to other parts of the world while here, in the largest concentration of English-speaking people in the world, [...]

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Defining marriage as “one man and one woman” may seem an appropriate boundary for society to define. But in the process, defining marriage serves to re-define family, or at least re-defining the legal protections available to a family.

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I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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