Arrgh and avast, ye scurvy dogs!  ‘Tis time fer electin’ President o’ th’ United States, an’ I been thinkin’ ‘bout who seems a good fit fer the job, in terms o’ what’s good fer me an’ mine!
Methinks that th’ feller Barack Obama be a good fit!  Even tho’ he be a landlubber!  Here be why!
Offshore Drillin’:  …

I was just watching Colin Powell on his post-Obama endorsement press interview outside the Meet the Press studios.  Jesus.  Did Colin Powell just say something that makes total sense?  Did he just tell fellow Republicans that taxes – all taxes – represent a re-distribution of wealth, and that merely questioning the current tax system and …

One would hope in this day and age that the United States of America would not help fund dangerously violent homophobic groups in other countries.  I’m not claiming that the Bush Administration is providing funds to these groups for the express purpose of killing gays and lesbians, but rather the US government is doing nothing …

Joe, I seem to recall that it was Democrats who started the whole ‘we have to listen to a bunch of generals and former generals when it comes to making plans’ nonsense in 2004, when the Kerry campaign trotted out more has-beens than Whoopi Goldberg did on Hollywood Squares. Unfair to blame McCain for coming …

There’s some pretty scary rhetoric coming out of the McCain camp lately that I guess one could chalk up to electoral panic and grasping at straws, desperate attempts by McCain to both connect with and motivate the right-wing base of the GOP.  But that does not let McCain off the hook for the content of …

McCain’s blown it, in GOP-parlance, “big time”.  After a week of gaffe’s regarding Iraq that his aides tried to whisk away as being “the result of speaking extemporaneously”, the Arizona Senator has bungled what was his strongest remaining foreign policy card– the surge.
In an interview with Katie Couric last night, McCain laid out a time …

If John McCain shits in the woods, would anybody know it? Not this week. He landed in New Hampshire – friendliest of all NE states for McCain - and how many media reps were there to cover the event? ONE.
Great little snapshot on McCain’s week, which ain’t been good, by any standard. The week …

Whoooowee! The euphemisms are flying now! McCain/Bush don’t want a “timeline” for withdrawal. Instead, they want a “time horizon”, following “aspirational goals” (to quote that pillar of straight talk, General Petraeus). I like aspirational goals…I aspire to learn the art of b.s. at the level being performed by the current administration. Yes, yes, this is …

New Girl Crush—Lara Logan, CBS New Chief Foreign Correspondent
I want to be her when I grow up

Japhy:

Perhaps I’ve been drinking from the Glenn Greenwald fountain for too long. However, being the Standard-bearer for Establishment Journalism is no longer a position which should garner respect.

From their unwillingness to question the Bush Administration during the ramp-up to the Iraq War, or to provide sufficient coverage of anyone who was doing so, to the …