The Senate’s been looking just great this week.  Starting with the Democrats refusal to bounce Lieberman (D; All-about-me-istan) from either the caucus or the Chairmanship of Homeland Security, to the GOP refusing to kick seven-time-felon Ted Stephens (R; All-for-me-istan) out of the caucus on the pre-text of “waiting for the Alaskan voters to decide”, the …

Should we help Detroit survive?

Well, he said he’d do it and goddamn it, he’s doing it!  Barack Obama said, throughout the campaign, that if he were elected President, he would reach across the aisle, reach out to opponents, and bring America together to set a new course for a change in this nation.  And wouldn’t you know it, he …

I live in Chicago, so I am not on the ground in California.  Thus, I simply don’t know the answers to the questions I pose below.  Feel free to clue me in.
I was intrigued as hell by Japhy’s post several weeks ago in which he pointed out what he saw as the pending fatal flaw(s) in …

This has to be a set-up.  No one, not even some Wingnut Congressman from Bumble Fuck Georgia could actually be so stupid as to warn a room of Rotarians that Obama may be forming a Gestapo-like brigade to take over the country in a Marxist dictatorship, right?  
No one could be so unbelievably ridiculous as …

St. Anselm was an early Doctor of the Church.  Anselm gave us the ontological proof of the existence of God, which, in a nutshell, says that first you believe in God, then you seek the proof that you are correct.
Today’s Christian Right seems to echo St. Anselm all the time.  George Bush made a virtue …

I live in Ravenswood, a neighborhood on the north side of Chicago.   I live a block and a half from Rahm Emanuel’s home (and down the street from Governor Blagojevich’s place).  Rahm lives next to a gay couple that I know who have a beautiful Golden Retriever, like my dog, Eric.
Well, this morning, I see …

Voters in Arkansas went to the polls Tuesday night and overwhelmingly approved a ban on non-married couples adopting or fostering children. 
The ballot initiative might as well have said “No Same-Sex Couple can get near kids”, because that was the heart and soul of what this ballot initiative was about, pure and simple.
So proud the …

I live in Illinois - Chicago, specifically.  Other than college, I have lived here my entire life.  I used to work at the Chicago Urban League, during which time I met a young community organizer named Barack Obama, and worked with him for about a minute on some school reform shit.  That was like 15 …

Not VA, not IN, not NC…so, where’s it gonna happen?  And I just watched David Axelrod do everything but crap his pants live on MSNBC.

Born into the family of John Kenneth Forester, owner of General Aviation, and married to Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, of the Rothschild family fortune - and Knight of England - Lady Rothschild has spent the last 5 months – ever since she resigned from the DNC when her gal Hillary lost – endorsing McCain.  She’s all …

Man, oh, man!  Fox-TV is up in arms on a quarter-hour basis today.  Every 15 minutes, according to Fox, there is a new assault on God and Country, a la Barack Obama and the Socialists.  The crime du quarter hour is that 2 guys were standing outside a polling place in Philly, intimidating people for …