Observations

In the cases where "Tea Party Republican" softball parents get what they want but their daughter's lack of skills lead to losses, they console their daughters that they did everything right and someone else is to blame (Obama?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbV7mURP0I I know all there are scores of too-cool-for-school kids who hang out on Bill Maher's Facebook page and stoke this little man's enormously fragile ego. Bill's always been a big fan of Ron Paul's, although he's not too keen on...

What's more extraordinary is that this incident was almost entirely peaceful!

Yet, there was something magical about that night, maybe the electricity in the air, the astounding lightening strikes, the pounding rain, the roaring wind, or the so, so freshness of the rain cleansed air.

What happens when a homeless couple shows up at a homeless shelter? The policies and procedures will punish them for their audacity, and rightfully so.

I'd been planning to offer some thoughts on another right wing meme, "political correctness," to follow up on my piece about "personal responsibility." With the latest furor over "Bow Gate," today seemed like a good time to post it....

Speaking of America, new plan to destroy it. Mahir has pretty much convinced me we're never gonna train dolphins to walk upright on land and fire bazookas, so scratch Operation Fire In The Blow Hole.

A Reckoning Long Overdue

But they didn't, did they? Some succumbed to Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy; others became Reagan Democrats. Most watch Fox News now. Why?

Rather than speaking of "American Exceptionalism" as de Tocqueville described the experience, they applied the purely Palinesque definition of the phrase - in other words, the "dumbass definition."