Duck! and Gather

Nancy Pelosi before the vote today:

Do you get the sense she was hoping the bill would fail? Here’s her comments after the vote did fail:

… is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Can you tell which thing is not like the others,
By the time I finish this post?

The pick of the moron Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP — in the face of McCain’s own VP choice of Joe Lieberman — was so bold, crass, and venal, that it all but ensures an October Surprise this year. The idea is that if “they” are willing to risk they nation by putting a rank [...]

My business partner and I we’re discussing how the Obama campaign should approach Sarah Palin. He argued that the approach should not be to criticize her personally, but rather to attack her policies. His concern was that attacking Palin personally would play directly into the strategy of the people who put in her in this [...]

We Americans don’t do subtlety. I mean, when the most interesting aspect about a phenomenon is a thing that is missing, we seem to have trouble understanding that. I could go on to give multiple examples. But here is a current glaring one:
Tomorrow morning is Sunday morning. In America, Sunday morning is the morning for [...]

I haven’t had television in my home since 1996. I think TV is the bane of Western civilization.
That being said, from time to time, there really is “must see TV”. For me, that has included 9/11, and various sporting matches.
Right now, it’s humor on Sarah Palin. YouTube gives us the best [...]

With Obama screwing up since June, and with the stunning announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, you can tell my reaction was horror. The last couple of days, I’ve been thinking: Could Obama screw up so badly that turnout in November is low, allowing the Republicans to steal a [...]

What type of corruption in high government officials do you find more disturbing ?  It is when an official uses his position to:

Personally enrich himself?
“Pay back” the industry which “brung him to the dance”?
Settle a personal family feud?

#1 is banal, common and well-known. Try Googling “bill clinton kazakhstan” for a recent high-profile example of this [...]