Stop & Smell The Roses

9:07 pm EST July 31st, 2005 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I spent the weekend flying down to Orlando for my best friend’s wedding. I didn’t read any blogs or watch or read any news. Relaxing. You should all try some time.

Topic: Oliver's World

This May Hurt

11:07 pm EST July 28th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 14 Comments

Has any human being ever said the phrase “holy ghost enema”?

LOL.

Topic: Humor

Brand Dem

11:07 am EST July 28th, 2005 | Politics | 38 Comments

Returns, bit by bit.

She Counts Too

2:07 pm EST July 27th, 2005 | Media | 16 Comments

Missing Pregnant 25 YO Mother Alert

Latoyia Figueroa is still missing after 8 days. And as tragic as the Natalee Holloway case might be, Natalee doesn’t have a seven year old child wondering where she is, nor was Natalee (to the best of our knowledge) 5 months pregnant.

When will the media cover it?

Maryland’s Shame

1:07 pm EST July 27th, 2005 | Republicans | 16 Comments

Wannabe senatorial candidate Michael Steele went buckraking with a man who thinks nothing of leaking information harmful to our CIA agents if it means political gain.

Do we really want that kind of mindset in Washington representing Maryland? I think not.

NY Times Strikes Again

12:07 pm EST July 27th, 2005 | Media | 1 Comment

They stupidly claimed that podcaster Dan Klass of The Bitterest Pill was an addict, when all he was talking about was people being “addicted” to his show. Why does the “paper of record” keep doing this?

Ann Coulter: “We Have The Media Now”

6:07 pm EST July 26th, 2005 | Politics | 24 Comments

Again putting the liberal media meme to death, right-wing loon Ann Coulter explains to fellow winger Brent Bozell on the 7/26 Sean Hannity Show that Bush should appoint a more extreme Judge than Roberts to the Supreme Court because “we have the media now”. Audio.

We’re Back

10:07 am EST July 26th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Godspeed, Discovery.

Topic: America

Hillary & The DLC

12:07 am EST July 26th, 2005 | Democrats | 10 Comments

Unlike a lot of folks on my side of the aisle, I am not kneejerk opposed to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), quite frankly I agree with a lot of their positions, but I think it’s a little disconnected from reality to have Sen. Clinton calling for unity when it’s been the DLC’s modus operandi to piss on any Democrat with a spine out of fear of not appearing moderate enough. What the DLC seems to not understand is that the sort of piecemeal centrism they advocated in the ’90s, packaged masterfully by President Clinton, is the key to electoral misfires by candidates without Clinton’s campaign skill (Kerry, Gore). While Clinton could similarly present populism and champion business, to present such an image nowadays is to simply be Republican lite and to communicate to voters political schizophrenia when they’re seeking someone they can trust with their gut.

I think the DLC is mostly right on business issues and their need to be addressed by Democrats, but wrong on CAFTA. The DLC would do wonders if they acknowledged the major errors of their electoral approach versus the blame game they repeatedly engage in after each election (No, Al Gore was not “too populist”; No, Michael Moore does not need to be pushed away – at least not while Rush Limbaugh is still a White House guest).

Union Disunion

12:07 am EST July 26th, 2005 | Politics | 20 Comments

(man, this must be my day to be centrist boy)

So apparently there’s a crackup in progress at the AFL-CIO. As a Democrat, I’m supposed to be concerned about this. Union households vote heavily Democratic, and they’re seen as one of the traditional pillars of the DNC. But I seriously question the relevancy of the unions, as currently structured, to our national workforce. I have never had union membership, but from the outside looking in it often appears that while they once strongly advocated for the rights of workers pertaining to what were once luxuries – like the idea of eight hour workdays and “the weekend” – they are nowadays more like a good concept gone bad.

In most other industries, a crack in the monopoly usually leads to benefits for the end users (AT&T for instance), so perhaps instead of a unionized borg, this split will cause the more forward-thinking elements in labor to innovate and get back to basics.