Was it something I said?
That could be the shortest lifespan for any blog in Minnesota history.
[...]edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
Was it something I said?
That could be the shortest lifespan for any blog in Minnesota history.
[...]Désolé, je suis américain, please cook my steak again, je suis américain. Désolé, je ne parle pas français.
1. “Home,” Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
2. “Why You’d Want to Live Here,” Death Cab for Cutie
3. “Rome,” Phoenix
4. “Maybe I’ll Come Down,” Soul Coughing
5. “A Long December,” [...]
North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it’s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it’s “snarky,” which is evidently now code for “place where people who claim [...]
So as you may recall, a couple weeks ago Hannity “accidentally” used video from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally to show how well-attended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rally was. An easy mistake, of course — anybody could accidentally mistake raw footage of a recent rally with archival footage from a completely different [...]
I am trying very hard to see where Newsweek’s choice to use Sarah Palin’s Runner’s World photo as their cover is a horribly sexist decision that belittles women everywhere. No, seriously, I am — I’m aware I’m not going to see a flaw the first time I look at something, [...]
I’m going to imagine “2012″ happens in the same universe as “The Ugly Truth,” so all those characters die horribly.
[...]First off, let me note that I hate Carrie Prejean as much as the next sentient human.
That out of the way, it’s time for me to defend Carrie Prejean.
As you may have heard, former Miss California USA-slash-anti-gay activist Carrie Prejean has a sex tape that’s gotten loose, and perhaps [...]
To the Indians Who Died in Africa
by T. S. Eliot
A man’s destination is his own village,
His own fire, and his wife’s cooking;
To sit in front of his own door at sunset
And see his grandson, and his neighbour’s grandson
Playing in the dust [...]
The Cold War was a fact of life.
My parents had grown up during it; I had grown up during it. And I had little doubt my children would grow up during it. From before my parents were born, the Soviet Union and the United States of America [...]
At least one Republican, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., says he’ll vote present on the amendment, and has four or five other members of the GOP who will join him. That may not be enough to scuttle the amendment, but it would make it close — Stupak has claimed between [...]
Today should be a good day. It should be a day when Democrats and decent people celebrate the passage of health care reform out of the House of Representatives. But unfortunately, the usual suspects have decided that health care can’t be reformed if said reform leads to women having control [...]
And discovers the sinister plot to steal Glenn Beck’s precious bodily organs.
Is he crazy, or is he so sane he just blew your mind?
[...]I don’t have anything to say right now. Awful is awful, and we’ll have time to dissect which particular flavor of awful this is soon enough. For now, keep the dead and wounded in your thoughts.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mike Doughty.
So I have T-Mobile for my wireless carrier, which means, evidently, that I don’t get to talk to anyone today. Thus defeating the entire point of having a mobile phone. The good news is that I share this joy with every other T-Mobile customer in the U.S. Thanks guys. [...]
Well! I can’t endorse viral pneumonia as a fun activity, though if you really like feeling like death warmed over and like your lungs to have that full-of-liquid feeling, it probably is for you. At any rate, I’m finally feeling marginally better, so posting should resume, [...]
On July 1, over at local righty superblog True North (”Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction”), Kevin Ecker decided to use his time to highlight an anti-immigration rally in Austin, Minnesota:
Political activism at it’s [sic] best is honest grassroots efforts by people finally fed up with lying politicians [...]
If you know enough about Minnesota politics to be reading my blog, you probably know who Margaret Anderson Kelliher is. She’s the current Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, the second and longest-serving woman to hold the position. She’s also one of the DFL candidates seeking to replace [...]
Current topic up for discussion at GOP.com:
I was wondering if anyone could help me on this subject..what it would take for a state to succeed [sic] from the union? I know with joining the union you need to have 3/5 of the states to ratify the constitution but can [...]
One of the more bizarre sub-plots from the bizarre story that is the faked balloon voyage of Falcon Heene is the YouTube video in which Falcon and his brothers claimed to be “not pussified.”
It’s a lovely video about how three young boys aren’t being “pussified,” and also, how they [...]
Debbie Schlussel is best known for her rabid hatred of anything that can even tangentially be connected to Islam, up to and including falafel. So it’s nice to see her branching out into some good old-fashioned hatred of other things.
What has made Debbie angry? Well, it seems Disney’s messing with [...]
You know, there’s nothing wrong with toys that mimic housework. Toy stoves? Vacuums? Brooms? Absolutely fine. Indeed, by playing at cleaning when you’re three, you become more likely to grow up to actually clean when you’re 33.
Just remember, though, that cleaning is for girls only. I mean, we [...]
Google Ads is now putting anti-choice ads on my site. Way to know your audience, guys!
[...]The new Republican National Committee Web site has been derided for its “GOP Heroes” section — which teaches us that almost all of the great Republicans lived in the 1800’s, and about half of them were black — but there’s another illustrious name on the list: Ronaldus Magnus.
The site’s [...]
Let’s thank the Ceiling Cat tonight for four brave Republican U.S. Reps — John Shadegg of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia, Trent Franks of Arizona, and Sue Myrick of North Carolina. You see, they have uncovered the most terrormorfyingest Muslamofascist plot in the history of history. It seems that the [...]
For the love of the Ceiling Cat, Michael Steele, really?
The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs — a lot of it directed at Chairman Michael Steele’s blog, “What Up?”
“What Up?” Really? Really‽ That’s like a 93-year-old white guy’s [...]
Bruce Jenner is terribly, terribly upset at Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. And for some reason, the Politico cares.
I think it’s only fair to run this trailer for the 1980 film Can’t Stop the Music, starring Bruce Jenner and The Village People.
There’s absolutely no racial component to the criticism of Barack Obama, and I think all you liberals are the real racists for suggesting there is:
When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you’ve walked into a different era.
Behind the pool tables stands [...]
Gov. Timmy, on Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize:
I would say regardless of the circumstances, congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Prize. I know there will be some people who are saying “Was it based on good intentions and thoughts or is it going to be based [...]
I don’t know if Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize quite yet, and I’m actually serious when I say he won it in no small part for simply not being George W. Bush — for seeking to reengage with the world in the sort of [...]
I haven’t paid much attention to the New Jersey governor’s race. Oh, it looks kind of close, and that might be marginally interesting, but the choice for residents of the Garden State appears to be the classic one between the evil of two lessers. Fighting from the blue corner is [...]
I take back any bad thing I’ve ever said about Sen. Al Franken, DFL-Minn.
Why do I do this? Because in his brief tenure in office, Franken has shown himself to be exactly the kind of senator we need more of — bright, driven, and possessed of a sense of [...]
This looks like the sort of technology that will be available in the 28th century:
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
Seriously, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The abstract is here. If I were a venture capitalist I’d be shoveling [...]
Like most Americans, I don’t have much time for Bill Ayers. Yes, I know he’s central to the vast left-wing conspiracy to elect Muslim Black Socialist Black Communist Black Muslim Blackity Black Black Black President Barack Hussein Super-Allah Obama, but he’s also a former terrorist — and no mincing [...]
As you’ve probably heard, the folks who brought you Conservapedia are currently hard at work on the Conservative Bible, because that Jesus guy was a crazy dope-smoking hippie who had all these goofy ideas about healing the sick and helping the poor and turning the other cheek and [...]
Today marks the last scheduled major league baseball game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Happily, it may not be the last game played; the Minnesota Twins have managed to draw even with the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central after 161 games. Should the Twins and Tigers [...]
I swear, at some point in the next few days, I will stop posting on Roman Polanski. But it shines so many interesting lights on so much of the sexism in our culture that it’s impossible to ignore it.
I’ve been musing for the past few days on just how it [...]
David Letterman is a vile rapist for having a consensual sexual affair with a co-worker. Roman Polanski is a really nice guy who shouldn’t be judged for raping a 13-year-old girl.
[...]Thank you, Neil Gaiman. I really would have been depressed if you’d turned out to be a Polanski supporter. (Via Ginmar.)
[...]Carbon Dioxide: the best thing ever!
That’s pretty much as factually wrong as “Uranium: It’s what’s for dinner.” But it still can’t top CEI’s “We Call it Life”:
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(Via Sheril Kirshenbaum)
[...]The number of actors and directors not supporting Roman Polanski is depressingly low, but one of them is Silent Bob himself:
Look, I dig ROSEMARY’S BABY; but rape’s rape. Do the crime, do the time.
You’d think that would be pretty much the universal attitude, but you’d be wrong.
[...]
As we noted the other night, Roman Polanski holds duel French and Polish citizenship, and both nations’ governments have been assiduously lobbying for his release, because evidently both governments believe that being famous allows you to rape kids. This has allowed leaders in both countries to join [...]
The fallout from the arrest of Roman Polanski has been interesting and, in many ways, heartening. While there have been many posts defending Polanski — I touched on some yesterday, as did the redoubtable Kate Harding — most bloggers on the left and the right alike [...]
It’s funny. If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old girl and then flee into exile rather than paying for his crime, pretty much everyone and their twin sister would agree that he was a scumbag who deserved nothing less than the hammer of justice brought down upon him. [...]
Maybe — and I’m just throwing this out there with no evidence whatsoever — Bill Sparkman was murdered because he was a gay pedophile.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!
Roman Polanski, a convicted child rapist who has been living in exile since fleeing punishment in 1978, was arrested on Saturday night in Zurich, Switzerland, on an international warrant. Polanski, 76, has been living in France since he pled guilty to the statutory rape of [...]
Glenn Beck doesn’t really seem to know, despite saying Barack Obama has a “deep-seated hatred” of it:
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
So Our Michele was down in St. Louis today, where she ignored Lincoln’s axiom on being thought a fool as per usual. But what is really impressive is this little sequence from her departure, as reported by the Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel:
After the speech, Bachmann had only a few [...]
Is anyone surprised that Glenn Beck’s new book, Arguing With Idiots, is chock-full-o-idiocy? No, of course not; the idiot in the title is, of course, Beck himself. Still, even by Beck’s standards, this is quite amazing:
In the chapter, Beck reprints and then praises Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 [...]
