Attach the ground cable from your tinfoil hat to your Prius battery and get extra mileage!

Posted at August 1, 2008 1:38 PM in response to Another one bites the dust

It is human nature to repress and alter humiliating and painful memories. Ashcroft always seemed to me a bit less sociopathic than many of his superiors and colleagues, and the vestiges of humanity within him may have contributed to his memory loss. He nevertheless remains a turd.

Posted at July 17, 2008 12:20 PM in response to Ashcroft: Sometimes I Confuse What People Tell Me With Reality

I know somebody who believes that the FBI has 1960's photos of Nancy Pelosi dancing topless at a Grateful Dead concert, and every time the White House wants the House to act like oatmeal mush they remind her...

Posted at June 19, 2008 12:31 PM in response to Lawmakers Reach Deal Over Government Surveillance Powers

McCain's mental fitness is not an issue as long as his wife has a good astrologer to help her run the country. This technique has already produced the poster administration for conservative Republicanism.

Posted at June 11, 2008 2:27 PM in response to Is John McCain Going Senile?

Anecdotally, I see a fundamental difference between the current situation and the Kerry debacle.
I have worked for 26 years at the same university, teaching and talking with students and eavesdropping on their conversations at the coffee stand (not for the faint-hearted). In 2004 the students did not give a rat's ass about George Bush or John Kerry, devoting the lion's share of their attention to their personal electronics and personal social circle.
Even today intense political emotion of the Vietnam era variety is not in evidence - I hear some Obama enthusiasm- but a much more pervasive conviction that the current administration is a nest of truly bogus and evil scam artists. There seems to be an almost quietly grim determination to dispose of them.
It is important to remember that most people under 30 ignore MSM and get all their information from the internet- insulating them from a lot of spin, and they only have cell phones - insulating them from pollsters. I believe the Obama campaign is the only one that is remotely attuned to this demographic.

Posted at June 9, 2008 12:50 PM in response to A Grand Word of Warning

Condi is a master at making the absurd sound reasonable. Luckily the admininstration never really capitalized on this talent. Imagine what a press secretary she would have made. We would still be dizzy. She often wraps her spin in revised semi-history. This works very well with people who know no history at all (an unfortunately large group). Its an easy way to fabricate credibility.

Posted at June 6, 2008 3:29 PM in response to One More Point on the Lessons of History

Say what you will about Condi - she can talk in circles for hours under intense questioning without breaking a sweat. Thats gotta count for something

Posted at June 4, 2008 12:44 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Lyndon LaRouche? wow.

Posted at May 19, 2008 6:21 PM in response to If He's So Confident, Why The Desperate Behavior?

In the interview with Stewart, Feith says Bush wanted to respond to 9-11 from a position of strength. Almost like saying "Who cares if they had anything to do with it- we just need to kill some Arabs"

Posted at May 13, 2008 2:49 PM in response to "So we were wrong, so what?"

wierdest-
Early Republican debate -when everybody on stage was asked to raise their hand if they didnt believe in evolution. Remember how they all looked around at each other - all those little little wheels turning in those old heads.

Posted at May 13, 2008 1:31 PM in response to Weirdest, worst, and best moments from the primary campaign