Archive for January, 2011
Joe Sestak was Right: Pat Toomey IS the Manchurian Candidate
Remember this?
Joe Sestak wasn’t kidding: Pat Toomey really DOES put China ahead of his own countrymen:
“I intend to introduce legislation that would require the Treasury to make interest payments on our debt its first priority in the event that the debt ceiling is not raised,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) wrote in a Friday Wall Street [...]
Backwards
The Two Abortion Wars: State Battles Over Roe v. Wade
Away from Washington, another ominous anti-abortion battle is accelerating in the states. Anti-abortion forces have been trying to take advantage of the 2007 ruling in which the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on a particular method of abortion.
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Twenty-nine governors are considered solidly anti-abortion, up [...]
Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria
That’s what I call a clusterfuck of mammoth proportions, and it’s a hugely complicated problem: it’s very difficult NOT to celebrate popular revolts against dictators. At the same time, these dictators have been propped up by the United States government, and there’s every reason to expect that if the revolutionaries win, there will be negative [...]
Read More..>>Show of Unity, Part 3
Looks like “Date Night at the SOTU worked well, because we gots more bipartisanship:
The top Democrat and top Republican in the Senate agreed Thursday to swear off seeking major changes to rules in the chamber in this Congress — and the next one.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced a series of rules changes for the [...]
Screaming the Blues at the Top of Your Lungs
My buddy Nikolai caught this video from one of our weekly jam sessions. I’m sad to have missed this: just listen to the guttural noises emanating from that woman’s throat. And keep in mind, my buddy’s filming from OUTSIDE the bar.
The :49 mark is the best. That’s where you realize she’s got a real [...]
Post-SOTU
I didn’t watch the SOTU last night: as I’ve mentioned several times over the past few weeks, I’ve been living under a [partial] news blackout. I’ve been paying attention to stories i think are important (like the Bradley Manning saga), but for the most part I’m tuning out. When the big story is [...]
Read More..>>RIP, Charlie Louvin
Charlie and Ira are together again. Here are some youtube clips of country music’s greatest brother duet.
Read More..>>A Philly.com Editorial
This is what passes for an editorial in Philly, the city where more than 52% of adults read at or below the same level as a 10 year old:
Dining with Dom
Want to invite Dom to your dinner? E-mail him at askdomg@aol.com and put “Dinner Invitation” in the Subject field. Or drop him a line at [...]
Ton Meillure Ami
Thanks to Erin for this one. The video doesn’t match the lyrical content at all.
Read More..>>Show of Unity, 2
I couldn’t help myself. I called Bob Casey’s office to see if he’s going to participate in the latest bit of theatre, by sitting next to a Republican during the SOTU.
He TOTALLY is: he’s sitting next to Pat Toomey.
Dude, I wonder if they’ll kiss? Or if Bob will give Pat his lunch money?
