Ed. Note: The editor’s note below was written before the last election. This essay is somewhat moot now, but it’s still interesting. Thus, I am publishing it now.Ed. Note: This was written a while ago, obviously, but it still holds true today. Even though Bush’s popularity rank has slipped drastically, there are still some people… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Politics
Kiki’s Disillusionment
Ed Note: I wrote this before the last election, obviously. Sadly, I was pretty fucking prescient. 4:23 p.m. 2/1/05 I was talking to my best friend after the Iraqi election. Full disclosure-I have stopped reading anything Bush says. Well, almost anything. I find that it upsets me too much to read it, or it sinks… Continue Reading
The Grand Old (BIG Emphasis on Old) Party
Wow. I would have thought that the GOP had hit rock-bottom, but that was before I listened to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response to the State of the Union Address which it was in all except name today. I had read the rousing criticism to Jindal’s speech, but I figured it was exaggeration. Let me back… Continue Reading
Here, Chickie, Chickie, Chickie
Ed. Note: This was written awhile ago, but I still stand by every word. Chick lit. Chick flick. Anything with the word ‘chick’ in it makes me cringe because it is usually said disparaging, and usually by men. It seems to be the most disdainful thing in the word to real men who would rather… Continue Reading
In Praise of Huey Freeman
Ed Note: The Boondocks is no longer with us in the cartoon form, and I haven’t seen the series, so I can’t comment about that. 6:31 p.m. 1/7/05 What’s this I feel coming on? Is it a rant? No, it’s a rave! How novel. How unexpected! I actually have something good to say about something… Continue Reading
Yeah, So?
I am sick. No, I mean literally this time. Physically. I get bronchitis fairly regularly, but this is beyond what I usually get. Everything hurts. My eyeballs, my joints, my muscles, my tendons, my eyelids, my elbows, my knees, my scalp, my throat, and my chest. That is just the short list. So, for today’s… Continue Reading
Bite Me.
Ok. I am done with my self-imposed ban on politics, and today, I have plunged back into the world of lefty blogs and lefty shows. Now, I have to warn you that I am pretty dang sick, which means I’m grumpier than usual. The light hurts my eyes, and the water from my bath hurts my… Continue Reading
T’ing Up the Republicans.
All right. I have read the blogs and the pundits (all lefties, of course) eloquently detailing what is going on with the Republicans and why they are doubling-down on the shit that got them canned en masse in the first place. It all makes sense. I mean, there are only five truly red states now–you… Continue Reading
Eight is MORE Than Enough, Damnit!
Udate: I just read the headline that the mother’s mother said her daughter was obsessed with having kids and this has to stop. Um, too little too late. I am not one for involuntary tube-tying, but I will make an exception in this case–and in the case of Michelle Duggars. Gah. What the–huh? Is she… Continue Reading
Just Go, Blago.
Breaking News: Illinois Senate unanimously ousts Blago! Plus, they unanimously bar him from ever working in an Illinois public office again. What a surprise. Yes, I am still pissed off at the Republicans, and I fully intended to rant about them today–but something else came up. I was listening to NPR, and the subject… Continue Reading