Wednesday, April 30, 2008

tim russert: hack... !

Back in the spring of '89, I was offered a summer internship at Meet The Press. At the time it was hosted by Garrick Utley, a substantive and admirable successor to the show's icon Lawrence Spivac, and was even then the longest running news show in America. Instead I took the offer with Washington's local NBC affiliate News4, which provided me the opportunity to become acquainted with a then relatively unknown field reporter named Katie Couric.

But now Meet The Press is met with universal derision within the progressive movement, precisely because it's host Tim Russert is what Arianna Huffington says he is, a "conventional wisdom zombie":
[I]f he truly thinks his show hasn't become an outlet for Bush administration figures to push their message uncontested (as Huffington suggests), then shouldn't he bring Huffington on and challenge her assertions? Or, at the very least, allow Huffington to go on another NBC show?

Probably not, since that would mean Russert would have to ask tough questions for a change.
It says here that any reference to a "liberal media" is likely offered by the ignorant or one with a right-wing agenda.

Monday, April 21, 2008

where was i... ??

CU’s 4/20 Pot Smoke-out Draws Crowd of 10,000

And the subheader of all subheaders:
Police Issue Zero Tickets During Annual Marijuana Celebration
The days are indeed getting longer.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

it's unanimous...

The HAMstah forwarded this to me today:

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."

From the REAGAN DIARIES: this entry is dated May 17, 1986.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

bush breaks nato wind...



Or to paraphrase Bugs Bunny: "Did you ever get the feelin' you was bein' avoided?"

h/t to ThinkProgress...

another one bites the dust...

Charlton Heston: 1923 - 2008

One of the greats. Loved a great many of his movies, particularly Planet Of The Apes. A shame he devolved into a gun-nut, even as I found Michael Moore's sandbagging of him in Bowling For Columbine disgusting... although, I did find his going to Denver to wave a rifle over his head right after the events at Columbine as equally disgusting.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

bath, maine, that is...

You know how those Appalachian types save Saturday nights for their bath? Well, I was in Bath this past Saturday, and...


Front Street, a look downtown with the famed Bath Iron Works crane in the distance...


The Patten Free Library on the left; the old Bath Y being the brick building down the hill on the right...


The park in front of the library...


The old Carlton Bridge (with the stantions) and that, uhm, newer bridge in front of it...


Bath Iron Works at night.

And for an afternoon, the 70s were today.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

the nats' new stadium...



Check out the cool video (courtesy USAToday). Knowing the area as I did in my Realtor days, the Nats' new home can only boost activity in that area.

Missing D.C...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

spot on, i'd say...

Just when you thought it was safe to hate on John McCain:
I must say, I'm a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.

It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks.


-- President George W. Bush, March 13, 2008



Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the merciless reality of war.


-- Sen. John McCain, March 26, 2008
Hard to say which of the two Dubya is more of; assuming, for the sake of this exercise, he's not both.

h/t to Salon's War Room...

Monday, March 24, 2008

ah, the illusion...

By exercising daily I can make myself look 28 again, eh? Ah, yes! '89 was indeed the summer of love. Oddly, however, if I can but gaze upon a lovely creature, who is, say, cavorting about a small stage before a few mirrors and lights while applying her considerable talents against, say again, a brass pole, then, by Jesus! -- I don't know what it is! -- I just have to satisfy this abrupt desire to go push some weights; stretch out on a soft but firm elastic ball; ride a reclining stationary cycle -- we've all seen the footage, am I not coherent here?

My god, this girl is an athlete: muscular and strong, though soft and aloof; magnificently proportioned; mesmerizing...  climbing and twirling and gyrating, gently levelling, landing. It's all so sublimely rich and luxuriant, even as my dollar bills vanish before my eyes. And when her distant pupils turn to focus on mine, I am made as lost -- in an abyss, in a dream, in a lie.

And here I am now at my table, watching her stand in line for her coffee or her tea and her cookie. She wears her glasses invitingly, along the bridge leaving her baby blues unobstructed, looking academic. She may never have existed before this moment but she's here now.

Or she's over there.

I'll be off to the gym now.

idaho repubs put up a squirrel for craig's seat...

Aspiring Idaho politician changes name to ‘Pro-Life’

... uhm, which is not to be confused w/them putting a squirrel up... uhm, his seat... although they'd be welcome to try...

... but then the squirrel would have to have been very very bad.

smoke & mirrors + dog & pony = causas beli... ?

So now it starts:
Petraeus: Iran did it!
We saw it coming. We've seen it before. They could stand and look you in the eye and say "We're lying thru our teeth!" Do a 360 in-place, then say "this time it's so." And now they'll go out and do it all over again.

And they are.

Friday, March 21, 2008

from your other office...

The recession is an easy hook upon which to hang a hat of unemployment. Ergo, your operations, not to mention your backside, can be found at the local internet cafes: L'il Dog in Brunswick, and, today, Cafe Creme in Bath -- your offices, I see. In between I'll find you at the Y either in the post-nautilus area or in the pool, and, hey!, sometimes in the gym shooting baskets (no running, thank you, time & gravity & friction!).

Meanwhile, you crank out emails w/resume attached to various leads on Craigslist; making appointments with agencies in Portland, and, starting Monday, Bath/Brunswick. The disability income is no more and the savings is winnowing now that coverage has been marked for Cobra retroactive to the end of February, all of which is decidely more expensive and carrying with it no regard for your elegibility for unemployment. Is any of this supposed to make sense?

Oh, forgot to mention the insurance company decided to cover but 1/5 of the hospitalization.

Other'n that, you're fine!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

father, forgive me...

Mel Gibson trying to convert Britney to his screwball brand of Catholicism?

And did anybody else notice Tom Cruise lurking behind the potted palm in the corner?

Monday, March 17, 2008

iraqi soldiers want the *republicans* out...

... not that there's anything wrong with that...
“Just to be perfectly clear here, I did ask them are you following any of the republican candidates?…Do you want to talk about John McCain? Within that whole group, not one wanted a republican in the US presidential seat. They were all for a democrat. They were all for that type of change because they said they were living a republican war.”
Would surely like to see Barack Obama pound McCain over the head with this, i.e., after he beats Hillary's ass.

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Update:  so the emphasis of this story isn't lost on the slower of wit: the iraqi soldiers didn't say they wanted americans out, so much as republicans...  

finally, something we all got in common...

mccain's whole campaign in a nutshell...

Benen gets the gold star...
So, McCain needs an insurance policy. If conditions on the ground in Iraq offer some optimism, he can tell voters, “See? I was right; all we need to do is stay the course and reap the rewards.” If conditions are deteriorating, he can tell voters, “See? I was right; our enemies are acting up to influence the U.S. elections. They’re afraid I’ll win and keep Bush’s policy going indefinitely, so they’re sending a message.”

Heads I win, tails you lose.

sunday monday...

Spaghetti sauce by g., bottle of Chilean Shiraz, John Adams on HBO, then Harold & Maude, followed by La Boheme on the iTunes and now episodes of Law & Order on Bravo -- she's Robo-Gondey!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

another saturday night...

It is good to see some of my friends and family check in, by way of my blog, to see how I'm doing. They can call me on my cell of course, but burning minutes isn't always the best way to say, I'm fine, how're you? How's the wife. And the kids? -- you know the drill.

The short of it is I'm getting better. My last visit to the cardiologist was precisely that, I fear: my last. The insurance is expired, this after getting 12 weeks beyond my departure from work in order to visit a hospital room for 9 nights & 10 days back in December. Since then, I've been taking my meds semi-religiously, maybe missing all of two days total. The cardiologist expressed a smile when I told him I'm getting bills from the hospital now, charging me $441 for everytime I visit him. Geez! The EKG takes all of, what, 30 seconds? "Is that what it costs to see me?" he says. "Gonna have to ask for a raise."

"Don't do that," I tell 'im, "they'll only jack me higher."

Christ! I could pay less for more quality time with an escort. And, uhm, hmm... There's an idea.

He was stoic when I said I didn't know when I could come back in. "Well, our door is always open."

Yah, thanks, doc. Check ya' later on the driving range, eh?

So I've just received my last disability check and now I'll have to switch over to Cobra, payments of which will raise me from $120 to, ballpark, $400-a-month. Love that American health coverage -- not!

But I have a month's worth of meds with renewal for another month, but the doc was emphatic when he suggested I shouldn't continue unobserved, i.e., without a doctor advising me along the way. I interpret that to mean I shouldn't continue at all. Just drop dead, eh? I mean, my hospital bills are coming in like snowflakes on an impending Nor'easter, and I haven't even seen the bill for the cardioversion procedure I underwent a few weeks ago. Should be for a few grand, I'd bet. Meanwhile, moths fly out & about whenever I open my wallet. Did you not hear me say "disability??"

I smile as I rue my situation. It's all so sublime. The credit cards are shelved. Everybody wants a piece of my buhttox for lack of the greenbacks forthcoming. I watch Hillary pound her "Universal! Health! Care!" mantra, knowing well how full of shit she is. The Clinton motus operandi is to capitulate well before they have to and get less for the people than they could have. And this was before she was #2 on the insurance industry's Christmas card list. Bottom line for America, my good people, is that outstanding medical balances will ever exceed the coverage they ought otherwise to provide. And she insists it to be "affordable." Like, big good goddamn deal!

Ah, the white tea at the Little Dog is, at least, some comfort. Shame the place closes in 3 minutes.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

here, y'see... !?

What you get when you don't fight back...

duhyeww buhleev'h... !?

Long overdue:
"This ought to clear up any misunderstanding about our interest and the committee's role," Grassley said. "We have an obligation to oversee how the tax laws are working for both tax-exempt organizations and taxpayers."

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

turnabout's fairplay...

Remember when Isiah Thomas said Larry Bird'd be an ordinary NBAer if he wasn't white? Well ol' Geraldine's been caught in the same briar patch.

By the way, my question here applies to Hillary's surrogates too.

Monday, March 10, 2008

the little dog says hello too...

Coming to you from Brunswick, Maine, now. My mom's dying of cancer and she has anytime from now to a year from now. In any event, I'm to look after her, for her, for the siblings... and for me. I'm available and I'm here. There it is. Put me to use.

She still provides professional counseling services, although now, given her elderly status, its for gratus, or pro bono, or for free. In any event, I'm to be out of the house when she is seeing patients. All well and good, I like it here at the Little Dog Cafe, and Brunswick is a charming little town. Let's see what one can make of that, shall we?

Friday, March 07, 2008

strange, stranger, strangest bedfellows...

Chris "Tweety" Matthews touting Hillary over Obama is like the Southern Baptists touting the Israelites over the Palestinians, that is until the Rapture cometh to pass, and when, of course, all the Jews can then go straight to hell!

Is it me or is Prez politics, circa 2008, growing more totally fucked by the day?

The hour?

here's a question...

What's the over/under, that is to say the before/after Pennsylvania betting as to when Hillary chooses to out-nigger George Wallace?

Thursday, March 06, 2008

arlen specter, that pillar of... well, we all know what he's a pillar of...

The senior senator from Pennsylvania; wielder of the Warren Commission whitewash; trasher of Anita Hill for favor of Clarence "The cross-eyed uncle" Thomas; and now harrasser of the NFL, because one had thought he was an Eagles fan who resented the Pats win in '04... But Nooooooo... !!
[T]he object of Specter's NFL ire has been the NFL Network and its exclusive relationship with DirecTV. The Philadelphia-based Comcast cable company is in a war with the NFL over whether they can charge their customers for the NFL Network, unlike DirecTV.
Uh huh! Doing the bidding of another fascist, anti-net neutrality media corp.

We won't mention any names, we'll just... *cough* *COUGH* *COMCAST!!*

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

super tuesdaying it...

Obama to win Texas and Vermont; Hillary, Ohio & Rhode Island. So it is written, etc.

Given her endorsement of John McCain over Barack Obama, or her hemming & hawing on whether he's a Muslim or not, or her piling on when John McCain conspires with the right-wing Canadian prime minister to take down a fellow Democrat and fellow American, I reckon I don't have to say, "She's a Republican, ferChrissakes!" and be seen as barking up the wrong tree.

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Update: Naahm's "Think you better get out that eraser for what is written" taunt notwithstanding, dig this:
It's looking more and more like Obama will officially win Texas.

winter in new england...

Cellphone shots...


"Thicket Sunset" - Troy, NH; Dec. '07



"Homestead" - Hadley, Mass.; Jan. '08



"Walking" - Hadley, Mass.; Jan. '08



"Thru the Dining Room Window" - Troy, NH; Dec. '07



"The Bahn" - Troy, NH; Dec. '07



"The Bahn at Sunset" - Troy, NH; Dec. '07



"Dogs With Frisbee" - Troy, NH; Dec. '07



"A Peak Over the Dashboard" - Hadley, Mass.; Feb. '08



"Still!?" - Hadley, Mass.; Feb. '08



"Road Work" - Northampton, Mass.; Feb. '08



"91N" - Whately, Mass.; Feb. '08



"Bluster" - Greenfield, Mass.; Feb. '08



"Rt. 47" - S. Hadley, Mass.; Mar. '08



"Mt. Holyoke" - S. Hadley, Mass.; Mar. '08



"Homestead in Profile" - Hadley, Mass.; Jan. '08

Sunday, March 02, 2008

somebody had t'be...

Rewriting some text and came across this piece on da Vinci. I was impressed:
Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" or universal genius, a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
So I was just thinking: Would I prefer to be known as this or as something more akin to, say, the Son of God?

I mean, it's, like, a toss-up.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

begging the question as to whom, or what, was crispier, dali or the lobster... ?


From Wiki:
Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936. Dalí wrote of lobsters and telephones in his book The Secret Life, demanding to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a telephone.
I've often wondered the same thing.

the enemy of my enemy...

Wow! John McCain has, like, totally stepped into a big pile of inorganic biofudge:
According to [Catholic League Blowhole Bill] Donohue, Hagee has "made a lot of money off bashing the Catholic Church and blames Catholics for the Holocaust." What does it say about McCain that he would embrace such a figure? "This doesn't speak well for him. He's tolerating an endorsement by an inveterate bigot, and it's been brought to his attention."
Here're the strait-talker's options: 1) He doesn't repudiate Hagee and he loses the Catholic and, by extension, the, uhm, Latino vote... BIG time! (And do we really fear traditional media will ignore the bellowings of Bill Donohue?); or 2) He does repudiate Hagee, losing his money & organization while getting hammered by him, as well as by those other blowholes Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity, essentially the Republican base.

Of course this is fresh off McCain throwing that Cunningham bozo under the clown car.

Here's betting they bring back the Morman.

checkmate... !

Obama goes Queen/Bishop on 'er...
"This is about what you say when you answer that phone. What judgment you show...She, John McCain and George Bush gave the wrong answer."
Ooo! Snap!

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Update: If I'm dozing, and she gazintah her "I'm mellllting!" moment -- wake me... ? please!?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

another one bites the dust...

Mike Smith: 1943 - 2008

Lead Singer of the Dave Clark 5...

jerry seinfeld wishes he said this to a telemarketer...

guaranteed to make you laugh...

so where's the snow... ??


Old & dear friend Holly emailed this view from her home in Santa Cruz (Gawd, but I love California!), i.e., a coupla days ago -- this as we were having a snowstorm on this end of the continent at the time.

no wonder he's soft on immigration...

John McCain: Not an American citizen??

Oh, Sweet Jesus, this is rich!

another one bites the dust...

William F. Buckley: 1925 - 2008

Have to acknowledge this cat as I actually enjoyed listening to him talk. Rather than say things like, "Well, that's confusing," or "I find that bewildering," he'd say something more like, "I must confess to a certain mystification."

Was just listening to a soundbite on the radio on the way home: Michael Medved, dipstick extraordinaire, said of Buckley that he personified the concept of "intellectual" and "conservative" as not being a contradiction in terms. Well mebbe so, but Medved and his lot are doing their damnedest to put the lie to that.

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Update: Back in '88, Buckley was given a good pasting by none other than Al Gore; this being at a Democratic primary debate, Buckley was the moderator. The question had to do with Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a.k.a., SDI, a.k.a., Star Wars. Buckley saw fit to challenge Gore w/a follow-up question. Gore was on his game, however, and after a few back-&-forths, Buckley said, "We have to move on," to which Gore retorted, "I don't blame you!" That was when I realized Gore had something to bring to the table.

Come to think of it, even Mike Dukakis had a good debate that night. Go figure!

aaaand we're back...

... with a great line by Carlin:
I do feel that when you're born into the world, you're given a ticket to the freak show, and when you're born in the United States, you're given a front-row seat.
2nded!

Oh! Another line... considered here as choice:
Well, in 1992 I had that piece called "The Planet Is Fine, the People Are Fucked" arguing that the creation of humans may have been nature's way of finding out how to make plastic.
Is why I love this guy!

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Update: The boy got zapt and the E.K.G. reads "normal sinus rythm." Thought some of you might be glad to know.

Friday, February 22, 2008

fade to black...


we leave you now...

incommunicado for an extended period... facing a deadline for some copywriting, which will take up our waking hours thru next week... fairly exciting as we haven't been this sort of pressed since college...

monday, meanwhile, we're to undergo a procedure called cardioversion...

it comes with it no guarantees...

we'll be back on the air... tomorrow...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

gee... ! it's g.e. bringing "good things" to light again..

I'm trying to plug in to Olberman's vids from tonight's show. This is what I get:
To watch video in the new MSNBC.com player, you will need to update your version of the Adobe Flash Player.
Then it provides instructions on how to quickly install the device.

And then Dubya and Dick and the Department of "Justice" will have you by the short-hairs. The business of surveillance has only begun, and one ought know that even if an Obama were to become president, the Oligarchy simply could not allow him to dismantle that which they've so painstakingly constructed. Consequently, then, the safest among us will be forever on the move and without various electronics dangling from our ears or off the limbs. But then we'd also be the nobodies with no ability to communicate with others -- have an influence on our own direction; an influence, maybe, on civilization's.

Just getting plugged in.

So what one must do is allow General Electronic -- a fairly entrenched multi-national conglomerate, who owns MSNBC, and who, by the way, is getting obscenely and filthily wealthier by the nano second off the fighting and dying in the Middle East -- plug into your laptop, maybe drop an interactive virus that will record your every keystroke, maybe concoct a few itself, send the report to Room Such & Such at AT&T in San Francisco (for a fee of course), who in turn forks over your interpreted proclivities to this government entity, ensconced somewhere between Baltimore & Washington city, believing itself as having to do with the nation's security. Oh wait! That'd be national security, which, we all have come to glumly realize, has nothing to do with our nation's security.

Sorry, my bad!

Which is all well and good, my friends, that is if you cannot handle having your freedoms.

But, just an example: What if you like to look at Erotica?

Guys!?

$40 Billion dollars worth of Erotica -- okay, Porn! -- gets consumed in the U.S. every year, conservatively speaking. And if you -- Guys!? -- step outta line, say, a little too too... ??

So many ways to fuck you over. Small wonder we're already the most incarcerated nation in the world today. But, y'know, no problem! You're a nobody -- not even on the radar.

But what if you're a gifted orator running for a high office? Hm?

You remember that Hoover kept Kennedy in line, yes? Kept his affairs out of the press. Strong-arming those in the know with a mind to share, all because J.Edgar & Jack were, like, tight, right?

Is how J.Edgar kept his job, you see, for as long as he could and all the while with Bobby hating his intestines.

And in the meantime, he somehow got a whole building named after his cross-dressing self.

Now that's Pornography!

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Update: Ah! Access to Olberman! -- via Safari, though not Firefox.

willie nelson: impeach the bastards... !

Who am I to argue with the great Willie Nelson?

Monday, February 18, 2008

"a question... !"

Dana Perino, Dubya's bottle-blonde press B.S.er bot, asks A Question:
"Do you trust the intelligence community more than you trust Democrats who are beholden to their left-wing?"
Speaking as a so-called left-wing blogger (who, in reality, is actually conservatively progressive and/or progressively conservative):

"Fuck No!"

And whyyyyy don't I trust the intelligence community more than Democrats beholden to the left-wing?? Well, I figure Dubya puts it best hisself:
"[F]ool me once, shame on ... shame on you. It fool me. We can't get fooled again."

Sunday, February 17, 2008

mccartney pays out $100M in hush money...

We talking blackmail or really bad pre-nup? Either way, Heather Mills is *cough* the new Britney, which means, of course, network news will have yet another reason not to cover the Iraq occupation.

why it pays to blog (i.e., even when yer not getting paid)...

An update to a story on which I blogged, figuring it to be metaphoric of Dubya's world:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
All of which begs the question of how bad the situation had to be to get Bush's cronies to actually do the right thing.

dan hatfield v. curt mccoy...

It wouldn't be spring if Shaughnessy didn't trash Schilling, or Schilling, Shaughnessy...

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Update: Okay! Spring training...

the beatles sang "stairway to heaven"... ??

Uhm, noooo... But it's quite possible you've confused acid rock w/dropping acid.

(h/t to Ken Levine)...

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

another one bites the dust...


Curious entity, even from this TM devotee's perspective.
(I was so gonna post this sooner but I was in a trance.)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

grand state of maine...

Ah, well! Having belched out my latest conspiracy theory in the previous post, I am most pleased to link to:
A huge victory for Obama in Maine. Final results still to come, but it's a landslide."
Welcome to Hillary's lost weekend!

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Update: Maine's turnout is described as "incredible." Could it be the excitation of making history with these choices for nominee? Or could it also be what we'd get more readily if we moved elections from Tuesday to Sunday nationwide?

Anyways:
The state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.
It was snowing here in Western Mass today. It was blustery and bitter. Almost invariably, meanwhile, the snowfalls in Maine are heavier and more insufferable. So as I've already had to deal with my heaviest winter in years, while staying for a few weeks in Brunswick, that is after my stay in the hospital, I must say I've grown to appreciate what it means to be a Maineiac this time of year. They are a stout-hearted lot with big ol' rubber boots!!

Makes this expatriate Maineiac mighty proud! Ayuh!

no longer the age of reason...

Axiomatic? A black American president will, not might be, assassinated. Or so it would seem to be widely believed. For example:
Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing believes Barack Obama would be assassinated if he were elected U.S. president, the British writer said in a newspaper interview.
It stands to reason inasmuch Bush's America is a sick, obsessive and violent culture. And as Lessing suggests, Obama, as a presumptive nominee, scares a lot of the darker demons out on the prowl. Later in the piece, she suggests he should in any event have Hillary as his #2.

Given the antipathy she engenders, are we talking some kind of insurance policy?

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Update: Answering that last question: Uhh, No! Those most likely to take out a black president and who could get at him would likely be the same who are frightened of any reversal of corporate welfare policies and its accompanying obscene profits (It's not personal, it's just business.), and not the unhinged, though assuredly very lone white supremist everybody'd figure to be in the equation.

And we all know the corporate demons just lovvvvve Hillary.

P.S., Of course, all this doesn't mean an Exxon or a Haliburton wouldn't hire one of, say, Blackwater's grandest dragons, likely for Christ, who just happens to be handy with an M40. That'd be them hedging their bet.

Friday, February 08, 2008

pachelbel rant

Happened upon this purely by accident. The guy's pretty funny, and he sets a new standard for me: the most obscure stand-up comic you can still find in Wikipedia.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

mitt quits...

Romney's excuse for getting tired of hemorhaging money:
"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."
Tedious asshole to the end, eh, Mitt?

Oh wait! He's a Republican.

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

what is real, neo... ?

Is it me, or is this, like, HUGE!?

uhm...

I'm convinced deja vu is the experience following the dream of the experience. Of course, the dream would have to be prescient and/or precognitive, n'est-ce pas... ?

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Update: Some people got it. Some don't.

Monday, February 04, 2008

that's entertainment...

Received an email from the HAMster this afternoon; rare reader hereabouts he, but wanting desperately to feel my pain over the imperfection that was yesterday's Superbowl blowhole.

Here it is: Oh Well!

As I had been hitherto made pleased, but not deleriously so, by the Sox winning the Series last October, so am I not so wantonly devastated the Pats couldn't hold the line against a most ferocious Giants pass rush. I dunno, maybe 3 Superbowl titles and 2 World Series crowns in the last 6 years, not to mention 3 NBA flags in the 80s, which seem like yesterday to me (one of which I witnessed from the press box with locker room access), isn't enough for the next greedy fucker. But me? I think I've grown a little desensitized by the multiple orgasms.

So, like, Oh Well!

Look, kids, I'm pushing 50 and Lord knows I've had my share of ups & downs as a Boston sports fan. The game yesterday enabled me to invite a friend and his lady to my brother's house to see both the brothers and their kin; slap some hootin' & hollerin' 5s with 'em when Brady hooked up with Moss one last time in the endzone; wonder what in hell Belichick was doing channelling Marty Schottenheimer by going for a 4th & 13 instead of letting his kicker go for 3 on the 49 or by not throwing the challenge flag on an apparent fumble recovery that should've been ruled down-by-contact -- I mean WTF, Bill??; and fall out of our chairs when Manning got away from the Pats' rush and finally connected with Plaxico for the winner.

We drank a little, ate a lot, goofed on the commercials (by the by, the interrupting shirt stain was by far the funniest comm) and a halftime filled with Tom Petty. 'Course the Pats might be confused as the Heartbreakers by hungover New Englanders this day.

But as the man said: Oh Blasted Well!

Sports is entertainment. The game was highly entertaining. The boy got his money's worth. Had a good time. Lovin' the family! Life is short! Get along, li'l doagy!

18-1 is what it is, then. Still more wins in a season than hanybody ever before. My cup has been runneth over.

Congrats to the J'ints and their fans!

Pitchers & catchers later this month. But, uhm, maybe I'll be reading s'more books -- y'know?

P.S. to Hammie & Chaatoes: Sorry to take the wind outta yer sails, fellahs! No gnashing of teeth to be had here.

And HOW 'BOUT 'DEM REDSKINS!?

Sunday, February 03, 2008

prediction...

Patriots 42 - Giants 17

the chi lites...

"Oh, Girl" w/Eugene Record as lead singer... 

Anybody too young to have lived through the 70s may find the garb amusing, or the fact that back then we'd say (and rather conversely) it's outta sight! -- but the song and the melody are still all that.

i'm f*cking matt damon...

Catchy li'l tune...

Very funny stuff..

(h/t to HuffPo)

Thursday, January 31, 2008

aw, jeez, schilling again... ?

Curt Schilling has endorsed John McCain.

Schilling also endorsed and stumped for Dubya in '04.

The first time in '08 that Curt Schilling gets pulled early in a game after getting lit up, please let me be there behind the 1st base dugout at Fenway holding up the sign saying: "McCAIN SUCKS! AND NOW SO DO YOU!"

which reminds me of a joke...

E. Coli Bacteria: A Future Source of Energy?

And now the joke:
The bad news is: The Martians have landed.

The good news is: They eat politicians and pee gasoline.

lest we forget what the last 7 years have meant...

dear god... !

Reason #37 thousand plus five why George Bush (and, in this case, other de-regulatory australopithecenes) should be waterboarded and then force-fed the Atkins Diet.

Warning: This video does disturb!

hillary the union buster enabler...

Reason #37 why Wal-Mart -- and Hillary -- SUCK!

the hearts & minds -- remember... ?

Obama Would Hold Muslim Summit
Muslim and Western leaders would be invited to the summit for "a discussion about how we can prevent the widening misunderstandings and gaps between the Muslim world and the West," Obama said in the interview to Paris Match.

"I will ask them to join us in battling terrorism but we should also be willing to listen in terms of some of their concerns," he said in the interview to be released Thursday.

Wow! Listening. What a novel idea. A damned good one, too, that'd require treating a quarter of the world's population with respect rather than dismiss them as lackeys or "evil-doers." Of course that never occurred to the Bushies, who could only talk about victory and not know anything of the actual concept -- victory as being defined by winning the hearts and minds of the Arab street. Absent that, we have what a McCain presidency would portend -- "More wars!"

And while a Republican-lite, corporate Clinton co-presidency, would be infinitely superior to anything the Neo-con can offer, it is still believed here that as only Nixon could go to China, so too can only Obama heal this wound.