How can anyone take David Brooks on Sarah Palin seriously? Parallel Sidewalk does a good job of fisking a particularly disastrous Palin eruption, and you should read. Now. I simply cannot let this pass: People who’ve never been in a Wal-Mart think [Sarah Palin] is parochial because she has never summered in Tuscany. – DavidContinue reading “David Brooks Spoke on Sarah Palin and “Elitism,” and the Peasants Grabbed Their Pitchforks”
Category Archives: Dirty Politics
The VP Debate, Speaking Personally
I agree with a lot of what Sarah has written about the VP debate. When Sarah Palin first arrived on the scene, I regarded her as a worthy political opponent, someone who would keep the Democratic party on their toes. I welcomed the idea of a woman VP candidate, regardless of party affiliation. But aContinue reading “The VP Debate, Speaking Personally”
“What To Expect When You’re Aborting”
This is a good site. Of course, the author’s getting a ton of hate-mail already, so write her an e-mail and cheer her up. Don’t you just love it when “choose life” folks (the ones who talk about “loving” women and babies a whole lot) turn into raging Neanderthals the minute they come across aContinue reading ““What To Expect When You’re Aborting””
The Election: If you don’t want to cry, you might as well laugh
Joe Hormes “On the Issues.” It’s the latest in both our humor and election 08 sections. There’s nothing quite like publishing these after getting back to reality after a particularly raucous wedding. This has been one of my “lost weekends” and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Just how stupid does McCain think we are?
This “let’s postpone the debate” thing is so transparent it’s practically a joke. He knows he’s going to get hammered now that the economy has gotten past the point of being in the crapper and is simply getting flushed down into the sewers of hell, so he wants to pick a better day, after AmericansContinue reading “Just how stupid does McCain think we are?”
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