Archive for January, 2010
A Modest Proposal for the GOP: The Roundtable Rebuttal
The Republicans have announced that they will send one of their new “young guns”, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, to give the rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union address on Wednesday night. I suppose I should be excited about this, since I’m told McDonnell is one of the new breed of super-powered conservatives who [...]
Ay, Calypso! Bang Your Head!
I’m going to hazard a guess that the cop wrote this citation for “loud noise” because he couldn’t writing it for “lying his face off to a police officer”. FOND DU LAC— Police responding to a complaint of loud noise have cited a Fond du Lac man for “rocking out” to the music of John [...]
The Delivery Presents: Unleashing Conservatism and Movies on the Go.
The latest, not to be missed episode of The Delivery (That’s Episode 21, for those of you keeping score), is now online, available from the usual sources (listen, download, or iTunes subscription). I brought in my friend, and frequent Take That Radio guest, Kimberly Haney for the full hour. I confessed, toward the end of [...]
Why’d He Kill Those People? Heck if The Pentagon Cares.
I’d like to say I’m surprised by the the purposeful blindness displayed by the Pentagon toward the entire notion that Major Hasan’s religion might have had ever the teensiest but to do with his murderous rampage at Fort Hood, but I really can’t. The U.S. military’s just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 [...]
Massachusetts Smackdown
Ronald Reagan was once asked how he’d define victory in the Cold War. His answer pretty much matches how I feel about the special election in Massachusetts tonight. “We win. They lose.” Republican State Sen. Scott Brown scored an immense political upset Tuesday in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied for [...]
Today, We Can Kill the Teabagger Bogeyman in Massachusetts
I hesitate to further the progressive meme that conservatives are baby-eating, blood-sucking night terrors that lurk in the all-concealing shadows waiting to feed upon the tears of humanity, but when I see the utter despair into which the mere thought that a semi-conservative might win a Senate race in Massachusetts has thrown the journalistic world, I [...]
Who Wouldn’t Love the Jedi Council on the Ice?
If you’ve been a sports fan for any time at all, you know that nicknames are important. They help fans identify with players more closely, especially if the fans created the nickname and the player embraces it (Are you listening, Mike Knuble? “Obi-Wan” is yours, man. Just claim it!). The best nicknames, though, are the [...]
I Guess Being a Poli-Sci Professor Doesn’t Require Much Interest in Local Politics
It’s been a while since I read anything from Daniel Drezner and, from the looks of this post, it may be a long while before I do so again. See, he has a problem he felt was worth sharing witht he rest us us. Drezner, as a resident of Massachusetts, has been exposed to the cruel barrage of [...]
That’s What You Said