Now more than ever

One of my coworkers here also lived in Wisconsin for many years. She just visited there over the holidays and brought back this clipping fro...

This is kind of interesting. Slate paired up with a market research group to graphically display the believability of Bush's Wednesday ...

A big congratulations to my friends Marc and Christy who just had a baby yesterday. Ollie is already blogging , precotious cuss.

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense , Wonkette reminds us. Of course, we love Tom Paine...

Those who know me, know that my cat is a cat only a mother can love, really. He's obese, asthmatic, and suffers from clinical depression...

Today is my dad's yarzheit . He's been gone twenty years--rather incredible. I was missing him tonight. I lit my memorial candle and...

I just got back yesterday from a trip to upstate New York where I was connection-less. So now I'm catching up. I was staying at my siste...

Shakespeare's Sister calls our attention to this gem from shrub's Saturday radio address : "[A]ll Americans can take pride in ...

It seems John Bolton is back on the job market.

In yet another demonstration of the US's astounding ability to back the wrong horse, Daniel Ortega was elected president of Nicaragua th...

Via After School Snack comes the video of the day .

Garrison Keillor's piece for the Chicago Tribune yesterday. This paragraph almost made me cry: People still care deeply about our govern...

The Dems have the Senate. It's official. Allen conceded . My favorite part of the article is this bit: Allen was comfortably ahead in po...

From SL comes this collection of Rummy classics. Ah the passing of an era: "As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we kn...

Complete election results including ballot measures are here .

I'm really thinking someone needs to rerecord National Brotherhood Week with an "everyone hates the queers" slant. The dems w...

The Onion put it best back in February: "We are entirely capable of bungling this opportunity to regain control of the House and Senat...

Has anyone else noticed that Bush pronounces "I-DE-Ology" the same way some people pronounce "eye-talian"? And let me sa...

Rumsfeld is resigning. If I still drank you better believe I'd be pouring out a glass of champagne right about now. The only better new...

Okay, I'm back. I thought for a while there about posting a "Blog Dark" notice like they do in theaters when there's nothi...