A Spork in the Drawer

Saturday Palate Cleanser

2012-01-28T14:00:00-05:00

Milk gives you pep and energy! .

Words, They Are A-Written

2012-01-28T08:21:59-05:00

George Fwill: Obama, an unfettered executive wielding a swollen state [...] People marching in serried ranks [...] fused into a solid mass by the heat of martial ardor [...] proceeding in lock step [...] obedient to orders from a commanding...

Id

2012-01-28T07:59:56-05:00

What fuels them: "I think it’s about time the Republican Party put somebody up not because it’s their turn,” said Carroll Jaskulski, 63, who works in real estate, “but somebody who will get in the opposition’s face." [...] “I got...

"Chuck"

2012-01-27T23:14:20-05:00

Did Fedak and Schwartz intend us to hate the last five years of our lives? The invasion of Italy back in '43 was less painful. .

Sweet, Sweet Music

2012-01-27T13:54:35-05:00

posted by gyma I saw this the other day somewhere else and failed to bookmark it. I don't know that much about Steve Schmidt other than he was an advisor to the Grandpa Walnuts 2008 presidential campaign. Failed presidential campaign,...

I'll Give The Right This

2012-01-27T13:10:47-05:00

They forced me to read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. I fail to see what the hubbub is. .

That Stupid "Angry Drunk Bureaucrat" Said Something Stupid

2012-01-27T11:05:13-05:00

And this is the result: Wait...I'm the one who did all the Photoshop work! Curses! You've bested me for the last time, O! .

Petard. Hoist. Own.

2012-01-27T10:50:17-05:00

It's tempting to gloat about Citizens United biting its sponsors on the ass but it's still a nasty bit of legislation judiciaryness. .

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 7.14AM, 53°F

2012-01-27T07:15:47-05:00

Things are passing strange. .

I've Got Nothing Today

2012-01-26T16:12:22-05:00

So here's Stephen Colbert's two-part interview with the brilliant (and very cranky) Maurice Sendak: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire...

Me And The Mittens

2012-01-26T15:54:30-05:00

posted by gyma How depressing. Mitt makes my annual salary in less than 15 hours. AND he isn't even doing anything productive in those 15 hours! Go here and you too can be depressed.

Scalping Funeral Tickets

2012-01-26T13:25:38-05:00

posted by gyma I wonder if this is a first? Local newspaper Centre Daily Times reports that free tickets were distributed for admission to the 16,000-seat stadium where the service is being held. Then, it seems, greed kicked in. “It...

I Guess I've Never Flown Alaska Airlines

2012-01-26T13:21:51-05:00

posted by gyma I'm fairly certain I would have remembered these if I had flown AA: Alaska Airlines flight attendants will cease a 30-year practice of handing out prayer cards with meals this February, the Seattle Times reports. The religious...

Smile!*

2012-01-26T09:24:54-05:00

posted by gyma Anyone remember something called Fukushima? It hasn't been in the news much of late, most likely because Mitt and Newt are sucking all the oxygen out of the news cycle. And we all know reporting about the...

The Liberal-Communist-Nazi Conspiracy To Control Your Garden

2012-01-26T07:49:29-05:00

It's getting warmer: On Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture unveiled what most gardeners have known for years: a new plant hardiness zone map that shows generally warmer low temperatures for winter than the department’s previous map from 1990. For what...

Normally This Would Be Good News

2012-01-25T19:34:35-05:00

posted by gyma The problem I have with this news is that I have little faith In who Obama would choose as his replacement. Lloyd Blankfein?

Newton Leroy Gingrich, Dreamer Of Small Things

2012-01-25T18:52:47-05:00

The Moon?! Think big, Newt: .

Theocracy Wow!

2012-01-25T17:10:31-05:00

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally sing a creationist anthem: [Via AV Club.] .

Separated At Birth?

2012-01-25T16:17:54-05:00

posted by gyma Any "The Office" fans out there? [via]

This Is Outrageous

2012-01-25T15:02:30-05:00

posted by gyma Well, in fairness it would be outrageous if the pin were on the other lapel. I find it interesting that since Republicans trained Democrats, pavlovian style, to dutifully wear flag lapel pins, they've stopped wearing them. (AP...

What The Hell?

2012-01-25T14:16:59-05:00

posted by gyma In the week that saw Gabby Giffords resign from Congress, Democratic state lawmakers in Missouri found crosshair stickers stuck to their office doors and a Democratic campaign manager came home to a dead pet cat with 'liberal'...

WTF Wednesday

2012-01-25T14:05:46-05:00

posted by gyma This week is a different kind of WTF. Not weird, but amazingly unbelievable. I've never, ever seen anything like it. You have to watch to the end to get the full effect. I tried finding a better...

Brave

2012-01-25T08:06:47-05:00

The vaguely lifelike Callista Gingrich saves her husband's life. .

Brave New World

2012-01-25T07:18:53-05:00

Land of the free. Corporations own your identity; the government owns everything else. .

No Escape

2012-01-25T07:13:36-05:00

Be evil: [Google] announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for...

Beyond Parody

2012-01-24T21:39:27-05:00

An Oklahoma state senator introduces a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food. Sen. Ralph Shortey says, "I don’t know if it is happening in Oklahoma, it may be, it may not be". Anything I could add...

Sarah Palin On Chris Christie On Newt Gingrich

2012-01-24T14:56:14-05:00

posted by gyma Here I was hoping Sarah Palin had decided life wasn't worth living and had relegated herself to an ice floe adrift in the Bering Sea. Sadly, that is not the case. Every now and then Roger Ailes...

Proud American

2012-01-24T14:40:28-05:00

posted by gyma Mr. Wingnut himself is touting the fact that Romney supports a very strange religion more than he supports his country, because the charity referred to in that tweet is the Morman church. Hell yeah, America First!

Brilliant Ideas

2012-01-24T14:33:49-05:00

posted by gyma Just another one of Newt's brilliant ideas: Before Newt Gingrich left Congress, he sponsored a piece of legislation that ought to haunt him to this day: the Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996. Had it passed,...

Congratulations Are In Order

2012-01-24T13:06:50-05:00

Steve Benen .

Bushland? Gingrichland?? Cheneyland???

2012-01-24T12:16:04-05:00

posted by gyma Which one of our failed politicians should we use as a theme park? The French have chosen Napolean. The Battle of Waterloo, which put an end to Napoleon's rule in France, is expected to be recreated on...

Moneyball

2012-01-24T12:02:32-05:00

posted by gyma I fell asleep after about 30 minutes of this movie and although Mr. gyma watched the entire thing he didn't give it high marks. So... Will someone please tell me why everyone's talking about this movie? Do...

This Is Why We Won't Get Single Payer Health Care

2012-01-24T12:00:00-05:00

posted by gyma Because the majority of our elected officals can afford this type of health care, they don't really see the need for providing reasonable health care for us schlubs: The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of...

Sad Facts

2012-01-24T11:31:50-05:00

posted by gyma According to this terrific essay in The New Yorker by Adam Gropnik, we've effectively institutionalized slavery: More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass...

The New GOP Stupid

2012-01-24T09:21:45-05:00

Lead isn't harmful to people. Next up: "Mercury: Gateway to Neurological Health!"; "Your Friend, Dioxin!"; and "Hemlock: Good enough for Socrates, Good enough for You!". .

Or Not

2012-01-24T08:57:37-05:00

No, I've never thought 9/11, I've always thought Saul Bass. Perhaps the producers/designers were intentionally referencing the Day that Changed Everything™ - it wouldn't surprise given the time - but the sequence evokes (to me, at least) "falling" as a...

My Annual Reminder

2012-01-24T07:48:18-05:00

This is the day I take to reflect on my hearty dislike for President Woodrow Wilson. He was the dumb bastard who decided to make a tradition of presidents showing up before Congress to deliver the State of the Union...

It Would Never Happen Here

2012-01-24T07:25:29-05:00

Too many companies' profits would be lowered by a percentage point or two: The [European] regulation would compel Web sites to tell consumers why their data is being collected and retain it for only as long as necessary. If data...

Popcorn Time

2012-01-24T06:45:15-05:00

2008 McCain campaign manager Steve Schmitt: Look, I think, not only are we not moving towards a coalescing of support by the Republican establishment for Newt Gingrich, we're probably moving toward the declaration of war on Newt Gingrich by the...

Noted Without Comment

2012-01-23T15:44:44-05:00

Okay, one comment: no old-timey gold prospector doll? That's a pity. [From TPM2012.] .

Newt!Newt!Newt!

2012-01-23T14:41:20-05:00

posted by gyma If Newt pulls this off, expect much more of this: Swampland: They [the Republican Establishment] see Gingrich as the political equivalent of a Fukushima nuclear plant worker, with polls showing him to be lethally irradiated by his...

Surprising

2012-01-23T12:31:19-05:00

The Supremes rule unanimously that the government must get a search warrant to install a GPS tracking device on your vehicle. I'd call that a clear win. .

Eliding The Point

2012-01-23T10:01:49-05:00

The NYT's Bill Keller doesn't think that bombing Iran is such a good idea and notes in passing: Having a nuclear option is seen as a matter of Persian pride and national survival in the face of enemies (namely us)...

The Road To Serfdom

2012-01-23T07:58:33-05:00

Destroy the unions, make workers dependent: From the Cooper Tire factory in Findlay, Ohio, to a country club in Southern California and sugar beet processing plants in North Dakota, employers are turning to lockouts to press their unionized workers to...

Giffords To Retire

2012-01-22T19:57:51-05:00

Best of luck to Gabby on her continued recovery. .

Too Soon?

2012-01-22T17:51:49-05:00

Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To Tell Their Superiors First Thing Tomorrow Nah. .

Because It's Sunday

2012-01-22T10:55:42-05:00

posted by gyma [via]

Not The Onion

2012-01-22T10:28:11-05:00

posted by gyma This might be taking political correctness a tad bit too far: Canyons School Board members in Draper, Utah have rejected the “Cougars” as a high school mascot, deeming it offensive to older women. My first thought was...

Clueless, Simply Clueless

2012-01-22T10:05:42-05:00

posted by gyma I'm going to miss Rick Santorum. No, really. Ladies and Gents, I'd like to introduce you to Conservatives Unite Moneybomb or C.U.M. That look on Santorum's face must be the look of naïveté. Ricky is as pure...

Eventually The American People Will Have No One Else To Turn To

2012-01-22T09:15:10-05:00

Shorter Tom Friedman: Any day now, voters are going to wise up and demand that I be made President for Life of These United States. Also: “The people are so far ahead of the politicians,” says the Democratic pollster Stan...