Month: January 2008

Political Crack8 Comments

I Love Election Night

Crack Van tonight, starting at about 6 or so. We can all mock Chris Matthews and then watch Keith together. Incidentally, election night was the night I always volunteered to work when I was reporting. I didn’t care if they assigned me some tiny referendum or park district bond issue to write agate for; I wanted to be in the room during the buzz and bounce and crazy of results coming back, people calling, running around, ordering pizza, making plans for beer afterward, chasing back and forth to candidate parties of victory and consolation. I know people who hated working … Continue reading I Love Election Night

Political Crack6 Comments

Tomorrow’s Blogosphere … Today!

A selection of posts, diaries, comments and rants from the blogosphere, Jan. 4, 2008: 1. My candidate won! My candidate is TEH WINNAR! WHOOO! Beer! Fukken’ yeah! We’re on the way to a new America, motherfuckers, one which only my candidate can bring us, and all you other losers will come along eventually, but you’ll never know the glory of having been here, at this moment, with us, at this time, before everyone else knew my candidate was the coolest. So even if you support my candidate, you’ll still be a loser! Yeah! Whooo! 2. My candidate would have come … Continue reading Tomorrow’s Blogosphere … Today!

Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle6 Comments

Today On Holden’s Obsession With The Gaggle

I’m back, and so isDana Peroxide. Helen Checks Dana’s List Q This begins President Bush’s final year in the White House. What would you say are his most important goals, his priorities, the things on his “must-do” list before he leaves the White House? MS. PERINO: Well, there’s a few things that we need to do with Congress on… the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the FISA bill… No Child Left Behind reauthorization… modernizing the Federal Housing Administration… we have free trade agreements that are on the table, including South Korea, Colombia, and Peru… [snip] MS. PERINO: Helen. Q It’s … Continue reading Today On Holden’s Obsession With The Gaggle

Political Crack12 Comments

Prove It To Me, Baby

SteveB over inWhiskey Fire’s comments: There was a piece in the Economist about Obama, saying he showed promise but needed to prove his “seriousness” by going after the teacher’s unions on merit pay and charter schools. When I read that, I wondered, “What are Republicans required to do to prove their seriousness?” For some reason, it’s only Democrats who are required to fuck over their constituents to prove their seriousness. No member of the pundit class demanded, in 2000, that George W. Bush demonstrate his seriousness by taking on the oil industry. And who would dare to suggest that Huckabee … Continue reading Prove It To Me, Baby

Diary16 Comments

Where the Drifts Get Deeper

On balance, 2007 was ass. I mean, not even a large disaster or two, more like a neverending siege of small bits of nonsense, things going wrong. Three dead pets, my abdominal surgery, Mr. A working 19 hours a day at a job so incredibly awful it would have been a relief when he got fired except that it was the day after I got home from the hospital, three months of double unemployment, family illness, infertility drama, friends sick and dying, and I’m hugely grateful it wasn’t worse. Lots of people have had worse. Lots of you had worse. … Continue reading Where the Drifts Get Deeper

Immoral Values2 Comments

Resolution

Mary, Michael and Bride. This entire paragraph is fucking depressing, in that it paints women as these put-upon creatures with no lives or interests of our own outside of fawning over men and domestic chores, who don’t understand that going out and having fun stuff, but will, with wan smiles, tolerate our men doing these things because we understand that we must in order to fulfill our womanly duties towards men. I don’t doubt a lot of couples live like this, where he gets to have an outside life and an identity outside of the marriage, but she does not, … Continue reading Resolution

Geek Cred6 Comments

Come Jan. 6

Join me, Scout and the rest of the crew over atthe New Package for discussion ofThe Wire. It’s already makingthe Baltimore Sun, having been gutted and skullfucked by Chicago’s very own Tribune company, defensive and pissy: More problematic still is the way Simon links certain newsroom characters to real-life journalists through words and actions – and then depicts them exclusively in a negative fashion. Simon moves deeper into docudrama when he does that, and The Wire suffers as a result. The docudrama genre, which has come under increasing fire in recent years, combines the look of documentary film with the … Continue reading Come Jan. 6

Political Crack20 Comments

‘Months of Political Commentary Rendered Total Crap’

That was the headline at The Poor Man a week before Iowa, 2004. That was the moment I decided not to get riled up by THIS primary, and why, during all these months of OMG HILLARY and “national polls say WHA?” and YA HALLO THAR OBAMA and other such things, none of it really bothered me that much. The numbers, I mean, certain things about everybody’s campaigns bothered the shit out of me. The numbers didn’t bother me, though, because I knewthis would happen: In Iowa, it’s a three-way dead heat, at least when margins of error are factored in: … Continue reading ‘Months of Political Commentary Rendered Total Crap’

Stupid Republican Tricks11 Comments

A Petty, Vindictive, Nasty Little Man

Start paying attention to the next GOPer to get the rock star treatment, kids: Huckabee’s administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law — such as in health insurance coverage — for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling, but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to obtain private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby, he sped final … Continue reading A Petty, Vindictive, Nasty Little Man