According to NBC News, Rahm Emanuel has accepted the job of Chief of Staff in the Obama White House. Everyone I’ve talked to or heard from, save Joe Scarborough, thinks this is a fantastic pick. Emanuel is smart, hard nosed, and knows how to get things done. While I have some disappointment in Emanuel’s abandonment [...]
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October 9, 2008
Rednecks for Obama: Live from Asheville!
Oh my Lord, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s because I come from rednecks; maybe it’s because this has been one crappy day; I don’t know, but this had me on the floor. This is so not work safe and completely not appropriate for children or if you have [...]
October 2, 2008
There’s a lot of hot air this morning
There’s a lot of hot air this morning about the VP debate tonight. Everyone’s prognosticating and most of it, frankly, makes me yawn and roll my eyes. I’ve found one piece, though, that I think is actually worth a read. Check out Brad Listi over at HuffPo with Biden vs. Palin: A Preface to Live-Blogging [...]
September 27, 2008
The Irish are pissed
The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, an Irish-Catholic fraternal organization, is calling John McCain out for an ethnic joke he told about the Irish at a town hall in Scranton, PA, on Monday. Saying that Irish jokes are the only ethnic jokes you can tell in American politics anymore, he let it loose. Watch [...]
July 16, 2008
Do I really have to move to Alabama?
Yes, I really am moving to Alabama. And stories like this one over at GayWired.com make me unsure whether I’m happy or sad. OK, I’m sad, but maybe living among such hypocrisy might provide some humor, after all.
The deal is that Alabama Attorney General Troy King was found having fun in his marital bed (that [...]
