The Reagan Recovery, The Fact-Checker Cometh, Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?, and Good News and Bad News from FiveThirtyEight. Continue reading
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With only five weeks until the election, the GOP’s point of no return zipped past in the rearview weeks ago. About the time Mitt Romney spent a muggy night in Tampa following up the weirdest public display by a senior citizen since Reagan’s second term with a bore-fest, the tide started turning against America’s favorite Mormon-Plutocratic-Android.
Tonight, that could all change. Mitt Romney could give the performance of a life time, the President could have a ‘Kill Whitey’ moment, and Ann Romney could spend Thursday morning planning for ways to keep ‘you people’ away from the Executive Mansion. Continue reading
Do you know what happens during presidential campaigns? Well, there’s a winner and a loser. And throughout the course of the battle, in order to identify said winner or loser, there will be scrutiny, negative ads, debates, media coverage, criticisms, and a whole bevy of commentary that will try and out one or the other as the loser. Continue reading
My friend and former co-worker, Jeff Hammond wrote something similar to this on Facebook the other day. I asked him if we could reprint it here. He added a little information for clarification and sent some pictures along. While I am pleased that Jeff is celebrating his five-year wedding anniversary, it breaks my heart that his marriage isn’t legal in his home country. This note is heart-breaking and so well-written that I hope, by printing it here and sending it around it will help people understand that this issue is about real people, not just political rhetoric.
Roger Goodell and the War on Pensions, hating on Ben Bernanke, Back to the Future (Economic-style), the Grand Old Straight White Men’s Party, the Year They Stopped Trying, Frank Rich steals my idea, hidden causes of the Muslim protests, and the design of US Embassies. Continue reading
With American embassies all over the Middle East and North Africa under attack, the Western media has for the most part ignored a potentially greater geopolitical flashpoint. Though an outright conventional (or nuclear) war between China and Japan is very unlikely, their fight over some tiny islands will certainly escalate.
The Senkaku Islands (as the Japanese call them; the Chinese call them the Diaoyu Islands) are a group of five small uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea between China and Japan. The area surrounding the islands may have oil and commercial fishing fleets also ply the waters there. Fundamentally, the dispute is not about oil or fish. It’s really about power, history, and not losing face. Continue reading
Programming Note: GI and I have agreed that, while we will need to keep touching election topics in the near future, we do want to diversify the content as we go through this process. This would be you, the reader/listener’s cue to put in your two cents as to what would make a good topic. Hell, you can even ask to join us.
Well, last night at the RNC convention there was a barely contained feeling of excitement and anticipation as Mitt Romney was set to take the stage. Could he do it? And by it, we mean, make himself likeable, human, and alluring enough that not only the base could finally throw all their support behind the former governor and forever Olympics cheerleader, but for swing voters and independents to see the man behind his monotone words and connect with him on a real level? Continue reading
Someone reset the “Days Since Mass Shooting” clock, the end of common ground on abortion, peyote break at the RNC, the Week In Fail, Romney’s speech, the GOP’s Cult of Celebrity, more on Lindsay Graham, and a SPECIAL GUEST WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE CLINT EASTWOOD. Continue reading
You just have to wonder what the GOP endgame is here. Is it that rape/abortion has become such a big ditch that they are compelled to keep digging with hopes on settling on the right answer, but (double drat!) what they’ve ended up with is such a continuing cycle of ignorance, offensiveness, and smug assholery that they’ve really got no clue how to stop looking for the saving grace as desperation sets in? It would sure seem that way. Continue reading