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Ennui\'s a bitch ... and then you blog
With a couple of exceptions, I've been gone from dagblog for several months. I've rarely posted. I've barely commented. Heck, I've even stopped visiting the site on a regular basis. I have a number of legitimate excuses - and some not-so legitimate e...
Pardon these Turkeys
Pardon me and these turkey headlines … … Barack Obama to refuse Pardoning Thanksgiving Turkey, will instead send it to NYC for trial. ——— … Barack Obama to wait to pardon Thanksgiving turkey until it reveals its real birth certificate. ...
Patrick Kennedy\'s Orders from the Vatican and the Abuse Scandal
The Bishop of Rhode Island has told Congressman Patrick Kennedy not to take Communion at Mass any more. They are now publicly feuding about whether or not the bishop ordered his priests not to give it to him. Forty-nine years after JFK promised not t...
Multiple Senators hospitalized after obstructing bathroom visits
WASHINGTON - Nearly 50 Senators suffered embarrassing internal injuries this afternoon, after Republican Senators - joined by moderate Democratic Senators - obstructed the Senate’s new bathroom rules. As the Senators prepared for recess, a simple ...
Report: Americans tired of ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ demand new catch phrase
KANSAS - A stunning new poll from the Taibbi Research Center shows that the vast majority of Americans are now tired of President Barack Obama’s mottos of “Change We Can Believe In,” and other Change-based catch phrases. Nearly 80 percent of t...
CharlesKrauthammerBeingCondescendingTowardMeaphobia strikes David Gregory?
Rumors have been circulating that “Meet the Press” host David Gregory suffers from the rare and stupid condition: CharlesKrauthammerBeingCondescendingTowardMeaphobia. ... Apparently, Gregory is among a small handful of humans that feel the need...
Palin Mania and the Triumph of Narrowcasting
Sarah Palin may be very unpopular by any traditional polling standard. However, pundits are eager to explain that the important thing isn't how many people like her, but rather the intensity of her followers' enthusiasm for her. Sure, she may poll li...
Blogger: "Sarah Palin will always be funny. Always!"
INTERNET - In a rare follow-up to one of his own blog posts, noted Blogger William K. Wolfrum attacked those that have criticized him for leaning too heavily on Sarah Palin for humor. “I am shocked and offended that there are those out there that ...
Water on Moon: Sarah Palin claims expertise \'I can see Moon from my house\'
When NASA recently send a missile into the Moon’s soil, the event was mostly used for an endless stream of jokes and “Mr. Show” references. Something big came of it, however. They found water. But no one seemed to care. “[W]e’ve been to th...
Health care reform passes big hurdle - Zombies take to the streets
WASHINGTON - By the skin of their teeth, Senate Democrats voted to begin formal debate on the Health Care Reform bill that would guarantee medical coverage for nearly all Americans. All Senate Republicans voted to shelve the bill. Seconds after the ...
Sarah Palin and Godwink\'s Law
Godwink’s Law “As a political discussion involving God gets more media coverage, the probability of Sarah Palin making herself part of the story approaches 1.” Example: Sarah Palin made a statement defending Miss California: “The liberal onsl...
Persecution Politics: Christian Leaders Sign Historic-Futuristic Declaration
Friday, November 20, 2009. 145 evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed the "Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience," in which they declared their shared opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. Though onl...
Senator Roland Burris Admonished by the Senate Ethics Panel
I told myself I wasn't going to write about politics anymore. I'm so thoroughly disgusted by the dysfunction rampant in our political system that considering it only makes me angry and depressed. And I really wish I didn't care anymore. But, never...
Will Lou Dobbs run for political office and fulfill dreams of “Journotainers” everywhere?
When CNN forked over whatever amount they had to in order to get Lou Dobbs off the air, one could imagine that Dobbs was sufficiently chastened for his Birther/Mexican-hate ideologies. That would be far from the truth, however, as Dobbs is already m...
Wolf Blitzer takes to Twitter to showcase why CNN is last choice in cable news
When a network goes from the top of the ratings world to the very bottom, generally there's a reason. Look no further than CNN's Wolf Blitzer's Twitter stream to see those reasons. From Wolf: • Jessica Yellin did a very good report in SitRoom on Sa...
Palin\'s Window of Opportunity
So, the rollout of Sarah Palin's book has led to a flurry of speculation about whether she will someday run for President. That conversation, in itself, is evidence of how little the American political media listens to what it's saying.Palin is an un...
American Politics in One Lesson
Here's how American politics can be swiftly summarized: If I give you five dollars in exchange for consideration in your decision-making process in the voting booth, that's illegal. If I give a member of Congress five-thousand dollars for the same...
New Poll: 80% of Americans would give up breathing if it helped corporations make more money
SOUTH CAROLINA - A stunning new poll by William K. Wolfrum & Associates shows that nearly 80 percent of all Americans would stop breathing right now if a major corporation gave that order. The poll - which was based on looking into how America...
Democrats set to adopt Republican “Always vote against Democrats” strategy
As someone who has spent a great deal of time perusing the American political landscape, I can say that my political prognostication skills have improved likewise. And I can say with complete certainty that I can clearly see the next move the Democ...
Joe Lieberman as Fredo Corleone
Joe Lieberman has spent a lot of time over the past few weeks making a spectacle of his disloyalty to the Democratic Party. He's gone out of his way to announce that he'll filibuster against the public option, preventing the majority that gives him h...
Sarah Palin and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie
I like fiction as much as the next person, but I'm not going to read Going Rogue. I don't need to. You see, I know a little something about pathological liars. My bio-dad* is one. Growing up not being able to trust one of the people who you are suppo...
Obama Bows Again!
Six months ago, I wrote a column decrying President Obama's compulsive bowing before foreign leaders and monarchs. After my editorial onslaught, the administration appeared to take note, and I thought that the matter resolved. But now, as reported in...
Persecution Politics: Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN, Claims Victim Status
GQ Magazine's editors believe they know why Lou Dobbs left CNN: persecution. Members of the right-wing media love to tell their audiences about how they've been abused and censored by vicious liberal attackers. Bill O'Reilly insisted that he had been...
Trial by Blitzer
I don't subscribe to cable or satellite television. The reason for this is that I basically see no value in it. Pay television doesn't really seem to offer me much. For one thing, it's rife with advertising content. Why do I have to watch ads...
Health Insurance - The Cheap Rider Problem
I'm a freelancer and pay for my own health insurance. Since I'm (relatively) young and healthy, and since I rarely see a doctor more than once a year, I have a fairly inexpensive plan with a pretty high deductible. Stupid question: If the House healt...
UN Declares Afghan Election "Credible" and Pope "Jewish"
In a unanimous resolution, the United Nations declared the Afghan presidential election to be "credible" and "legitimate" despite widespread fraud allegations and the withdrawal of President Karzai's opponent, Abdullah Abdullah. In a separate unanimo...
Jesus Christ quits Christianity after viewing Republican platform
(With today's GOP, I feel like this post - originally posted Sept. 2008 - never stops being topical.) For years, Jesus Christ had kept quiet while his “followers” had killed and committed horrendous acts of intolerance in his name. They were t...
You Can\'t Hate Government and Love the Constitution
It's probably a fool's errand to make attempts at parsing the paranoid, hysterical rhetoric that's been flying around in the healthcare debate, but that's never stopped me before. So, I'm watching the fun on C-SPAN this afternoon. Listening to so...
Persecution Politics: Nazi Fever
One of the recent propaganda tactics of the right wing has been to appropriate the leftist language of discrimination and civil rights to argue that liberal elites are persecuting white Christian conservatives. The most extreme form of this tactic is...
Moderate Democrats announce plans to hold off on passing agenda until after 2036 elections
Following Tuesday’s nightmare elections that saw their party lose gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, many Democrats have sounded the alarm - the time to pass their agenda is not quite here yet. Despite holding commanding advantages in...
