Monthly Archives: January 2009

New Repug Party chair is Obama clone — is anyone fooled by this cynicism?

Associated Press photo Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, pictured today, beams after having been elected as the first black Repugnican National Committee chairman in Washington. Lest you buy the ruse that the Repugnican Party is no longer racist, you should … Continue reading

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Assorted shit

Associated Press photo OK, so Rod “$enate $eat for $ale” Blahblahblahblah (pictured today above) by a unanimous vote of the Illinois state Senate is now the former governor of Illinois, but does anyone think that he’ll ever really go away? That … Continue reading

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He didn’t inhale!

Updated January 27, 2009 (see below) Reuters photo Ted Haggard, pictured above earlier this month, says that his sexuality is complex. (Uh, it seems pretty simple to me…) And the young man with whom Haggard claims to have had a … Continue reading

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Why the messianic complex?

  If President Obama isn’t the former one, he’s at least the latter one – right? Why do even otherwise intelligent people regard Barack Obama as some kind of a messiah? How do they find it so easy to dismiss those … Continue reading

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The harpies are still harping

AFP photo Someone please inform these two peas in a pod that the Democrats now control Washington because the American voters have rejected the Repugnican Party. Talk about timing. Repugnican Sarah Palin-Quayle — um, didn’t she just lose an election? … Continue reading

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I do solemnly swear — take two

Reuters photo U.S. President Barack Obama (pictured above in Washington today) tonight had to take the presidential oath of office again because he didn’t recite it perfectly yesterday. The Associated Press notes that two other previous presidents, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. … Continue reading

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Text of Bishop Gene Robinson’s inaugural invocation from Sunday

Associated Press photo Openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson delivers the invocation for the kickoff of the inaugural events on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Via Salon.com: O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will … Continue reading

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There is little to celebrate today — unless you ignore the past eight years

Reuters photos George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, at left in the photo at top, look on as Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, takes the oath of office today in Washington. So today is Inauguration Day. … Continue reading

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Relationship movie

Sinking together again: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in a scene from “Revolutionary Road,” the scene in which they first meet and believe that one day they can be the king and the queen of the world. (Instead, they end up … Continue reading

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There’s so much that I hate…

But I love lolcats… And I consider myself to be more of a dog person that a cat person, too… These two just might be my favorite lolcats of all time, though:

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