The Daily Show is Doing the DNC’s Work

It’s time that someone on the Obama campaign started thinking like a comedy writer, specifically, a Daily Show writer. This mirror image of the similar speeches of John McCain and George Bush is brilliant (comes near the end of the clip). It’s time for the...

Karl Rove, I’m Onto You

This latest spin item involving Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter so smacks of Rove intervention it’s frightening. Start with the original tale, where Daily Kos got played into helping nurse along a story about Palin’s supposed faked pregnancy to cover...

He Got Rid of Hill, Now it’s on to Obama

This WashPo story about Drudge is fairly illuminating; at least someone is really paying attention to why Drudge has so much influence. He has an uncanny ability to play into what his readers (silent majority) most fear. He’s the guy at the party with twenty...

I Should Have Real Problems

Yes, it sucks sometimes being a single mom. It sucks for a variety of reasons. Financially, romantically, comforts-of-home. Putting up tents, you get the drill. Right now I am in a continued battle with a business associate from whom I’ve had to practically beg...

Back Home, Hot and Smokey

The fires here in Southern California have turned the sky a Halloween orange and clouded them up for the 4th. Crowds still gathered to watch the fireworks even though, in my opinion as a Scrooge, seen one you’ve seen them all. All they really seem to do is make...

Freaks and Geeks and Creeps Drawn to Obama

Why is it that Obama, the coolest guy to ever come down the pike, is now saddled with the fucking loonies who are going to ruin it for all of us? If Camille Paglia doesn’t shut her pie-hole, giving Matt Drudge constant fodder to drag down Obama (oh, did you...