Sorry for the light blogging. I’m going thru the infatuation phase with Twitter (and now FriendFeed). But there are some things that just work better in a blog format.
Here is a Superbowl commercial that I don’t recall seeing at the time, but did see at the theater during Indy 4:

I’m not a fan of [...]

What Dahlia Lithwick said on Slate:
Perhaps it’s the inevitable byproduct of the accusation that anyone who failed to support Clinton’s presidential bid has doomed feminism, but the claim that the doors have slammed on decades of future woman presidents is as maddening as the Olympics of Oppression that preceded it. …
One way or [...]

if/when Barack Obama is actually opposing someone who isn’t a (supposedly) respected peer, he might fight a bit more?

So, I’m doing my normal post-work thing, catching up on the blogs and watching Hardball. And according to Tweety, there is a new poll out that says New York voters prefer McCain/Rice over either Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama.
Pardon me, but huh?
I just don’t get this. It really makes me wonder if there is either voter fatigue [...]

A quick lunchtime blog so that I can bookmark this post from Ali Eteraz on HuffPo re Obama. Ali suggests that we should vote for Obama because he is Nietzschean:

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher. In the nineteenth century he predicted that over the next two centuries, the philosophy of nihilism — purposelessness and despair [...]

So I was watching Hardball tonight, and heard Michael Smerconish talk very positively about Barack Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
The paperback is just $9, so I went ahead and sent it to my younger sister, who is leaning towards Clinton. I’d send it to my Dad, but [...]

Like Liz, I was bummed after March 4th. More so when I talked to a colleague in the biz whose take was that Hillary had the nomination. Yikes.
I’m feeling hopeful again. And I really, really hope that my peeps in PA show that it is more like Wisconsin than Ohio. We’ll see. I consider it [...]

I’ve been reading the litany of “why I’m for Obama” or “why I’m for Clinton” posts on HuffPo for weeks now, and this one really resonated for me. So it was funny to find out it was written by the actor who played/plays Charlotte’s hubby on the Sex and the City series/movie.
In I Can’t [...]

So I’m sitting here, watching Hardball, and ignoring the incoming phone call with caller ID “Out of Area.” And guess who’s calling? A robocall of John McCain! He really wants to win Virginia.
Oops.
I was voter 42 in my precinct this AM (around 6:30 as a matter of fact). I voted for Obama.
If only he [...]

This has been a very bizarre last couple of days. Virginia isn’t a Super Tuesday state, but our primary is just one week later. I’ve been talking with friends and co-workers about how strange it is that we will likely be voting in our first presidential primary … none of us can remember having it [...]

I noticed this last night, as did Atrios:

Some genius at CNN decided that the best way to present results - both on the pie charts and on the map - was to make Romney deep red, McCain light red, Giuliani orange, Huckabee light orange…

Here’s a screen shot from the CNN website:

From Daily Kos:

With a history of meddling in our primaries, why don’t we try and return the favor. Next Tuesday, January 15th, Michigan will hold its primary. Michigan Democrats should vote for Mitt Romney, because if Mitt wins, Democrats win. How so?
For Michigan Democrats, the Democratic primary is meaningless since the DNC stripped the state [...]

Gee, it’s been years since I last commented about a logo, but this is too hard to pass up.

Hat tip to Daily Kos, who also adds all the reasons that this logo “truly encapsulates what the Republican Party is all about.”

Wide stance? Check.
In Minneapolis? Check.
Prison stripe-wearing? Check.
Starry eyed? Check.
As for the elephant humping the [...]

I wonder if the Romney campaign counts this as “all publicity is good publicity.” You’d think since the Sloganator and Chevy Tahoe incidents, folks would think twice.
Anyways, big hat tip to Crooks and Liars…I needed the laugh!

See Daily Kos for the backstory if you missed it.
BTW, I love the payoff at the end of the video: Jet Blue…only room for the right wing.

Kathleen recently riffed on how the Pope is a nut-job. And a while back, a loser CNN talking head thinks it is okay to ask a newly elected US Congressman (also a Muslim) to prove he’s not working with “our” enemies.
Now there’s this…”a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber — only to [...]

Kevin Drum asks:

I wonder how many Americans understand that you can’t pass legislation in America with 50% of the votes in Congress? How many of them understand that, outside of budget resolutions, you need 60 votes in the Senate? That a filibuster isn’t a matter of Jimmy Stewart talking himself ragged for hours on [...]

From Firedoglake:
President Bush, once again throwing the rule of law out in the trash to cater to his rabid base, has commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. … The President has an absolute right to do this. But by commuting the sentence of his former Presidential advisor and the former Number 2 to Dick Cheney [...]

Just announced:
Talk show host Don Imus’ situation worsened Wednesday, when MSNBC announced that it would no longer simulcast the “Imus in the Morning” radio program.
I’ve been reading the commentary on places like HuffPo that claim that we need to tolerate Imus’ kind of speech, but for me, what was the real issue here was that [...]

HuffPo is reporting that Helen Thomas’ front seat at the White House Briefing Room is being restored after having rudely been taken away.

MSNBC picks up on a great quote in a recent Politico.com article.
In a similar “the times they are a-changin’ ” vein, the LA Times credits a blog — Talking Points Memo — with driving the US attorneys purge story that led to one of these rounds of subpoenas.

The address is funny, but watching “Cheney” and “Pelosi” is even better. I encourage you to stick with it to catch the response from “Obama” and “Hilary.”

Hat tip to kos.

Crooks and Liars points to an interesting speech by Howard Zinn at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Here’s a snippet:
Well, do you get the feeling sometime that you’re living in an occupied country? Very often that’s a feeling I get when I wake up in the morning. I think, “I’m living in an occupied [...]

Re Howard Dean and James Carville … exactly.
Obviously the “blame Dean” campaign was all wound up and ready to go before the election, but someone forgot to tell Carville that if [they] went through with the plan after winning big they’d look like total idiots.
I used to really like Carville, but the above coupled with [...]