Palin sparks Twitter fight on mosque (Politico via Yahoo! News) Astute readers will have noted that over the past couple of years I really haven’t had much to say about Sarah Palin. Sure, I make references to her now and then as various subjects she’s connected to are brought up, but I haven’t gone out of my way to skewer her in particular. In part this is because she’s such an easy target, and there are already enough people out there doing such a good…
By this point most Americans have once again stopped pretending to be interested in soccer, and those who are still pretending will likely stop doing so in the next couple of weeks when the World Cup is over once and for all. For those who think that this, this could be the time that America finally embraces soccer, I have one word for you: Curling. Most of you forgot about that a couple of weeks after the Winter Olympics, didn’t you? There are certain things…
You would think that President Obama giving the first Oval Office address of his presidency would be the rhetorical highlight of the week. However, Republican tone-deafness on the oil spill and BP’s responsibility to pay for cleanup efforts and the loss of business and habitat for Gulf Coast residents has been, in a word, alarming. Although Joe Barton’s “shakedown” comment and apology to BP was the apex of Republican missteps, similar sentiments were expressed by several conservative figureheads including Dick Armey, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich, and…
Google, Yahoo search engines powered by BP (Chicago Tribune) Like many people, I’ve been avoiding commenting too much on the political and corporate aspects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill because it’s still going on, and the focus needs to be on doing whatever can be done to get the spill stopped, clean up the oil, and take care of the people and animals and birds and fish and such affected by this tragedy. As farcical as some of BP’s ideas for stopping the…
Bill Clinton talked to Sestak about unpaid job if he dropped bid (Yahoo! News) Why Republicans and conservatives are so atwitter about this story is beyond me. Yes, it is the kind of behind-the-curtain deal that I don’t think has a place in a democratic political system, but all things being equal this is such a minor issue that the confirmation of it is pretty much punishment enough for the administration. Compare this kind of back-door deal to, say, then-Vice President Dick Cheney meeting in…