Archive for September, 2011
All I Know of SolyndraScam is Now Yours
I had planned a comprehensive post on the growing SolyndraScam story but I have to admit failure. Things are moving so quickly and in so many different directions that it’s hard for me to fix one particular narrative in the time I have during the day to write blog posts. Instead, let me put together [...]
So, A Terrorist, A Drug Dealer, and an Under-Reported Story Walk into a Bar…
Q: Did you hear the one about the rocket launcher, grenade launcher, and several packages of explosives found by the US/Mexico border (via memeorandum)? A: No. I only get my news from CNN, MS-NBC, ABC, NBC, PBS, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Q: How about the one about how we border a country [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Thank You Monday Edition
If I don’t say “thank you” to everyone who reads The Shack and listens to The Delivery, it’s not because I don’t feel gratitude. Quite the contrary. I suppose I feel a bit like Stacy in this regard. I’m pedaling very hard toward a level of success that remains just a fingertip out of reach, [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Left’s Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week Sunday Edition
If you have a progressive friend who seems a bit snippy today, cut them a little slack. They’re probably had a rough week. First, the President’s campaign rolled out its very own Report Your Neighbors and Friends to the Nice Authority Figures web site complete with its very own #AttackWatch hashtag that, thanks to conservatives [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Giving the President His Due Saturday Edition
I am quick to criticize the President when he does what I think are foolish and misguided things, so I should be eager to praise him when he does well. He did well yesterday when he awarded the Medal of Honor to Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer for his actions under fire in Afghanistan (via memeorandum). [...]
Pat Robertson, Cheap Advice Columnist
If I held any regard at all for Pat Robertson before today, I hold none now after he told his vast television audience that people with Alzheimer’s are “kind of dead”. “I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Good Demagogue, Bad Governor Friday Edition
Another day, another way my elected officials in Maryland have found a way to embarrass those of us who live under their inept rule. Governor Martin O’Malley, flacking for the President, attacked Rick Perry with the sort of flailing elegance you might see from a drunken ogre who stumbled into a swarm of bees. First, [...]
The Delivery Presents – Thank You for the Past Two
If it seems like I belabor the point in Episode Eleventy-One* that The Delivery has been around for two years, blame it on glee. When I recorded my first show with SMP Mike on September 10, 2009 (we recorded on Thursdays back then, moved back a day to Wednesday, then eventually settled on Tuesday nights), [...]
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