Nick Lachey (of Nick & Jessica “fame”) played Tom Jones on “American Dreams” tonight. Thankfully and amazingly, the universe did not wink out of existence. Yet.
Author: Adam (Page 11 of 224)
Bush’s National Guard service, or lack of same, has been quite the topic on the political internet lately. I must say it’s been fun watching Scott McClellan squirm under the gaze of the wakened-from-slumber White House press corps. Right wingers are fond of saying, “They shouldn’t have released *any* records. It’ll never be enough to satisfy them. NEVER!”
Well unfortunately, the opposite is also true. No matter how many inconsistencies, torn and blacked-out documents, and conflicting testimonies come out of this, it will never be enough to convince Bush loyalists (or even undecideds) that anything important happened.
I understand why the Dems latched onto this. With an actual war veteran as a candidate, they thought exposing Bush’s lackadaisical service record would make a huge dent in his main selling point these days – his “regular guy” image. But the problem is, most people already know Bush was a pampered kid who got a lot of breaks, and they don’t care. The only thing remaining that might *possibly* make a dent is drugs, and that’s virtually impossible to prove.
So everyone’s running around like chickens with their heads cut off. And with so much in the here-and-now to hammer Bush on, I think they should stop running.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I offer this Adam Green cartoon to commemorate my wildly ambivalent feelings toward this “holiday.” (Many thanks to David for sending the cartoon to me initially, setting in motion my insane fanboy relationship with Green’s work.)
Ever since Howard Dean’s spectacular flameout, I’ve been looking for a candidate I can support wholeheartedly. Well, I think I’ve found one. And his platform is pretty good, too.
Congratulations to Phyllis Lyon, 79, and Dell Martin, 82, long-time gay rights activists who have been together for 51 years (!). They were married yesterday in San Francisco, after city officials issued 95 marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law.
There’s so much to say, but it’s all already been said. I wonder if they’re registered anywhere?
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of Sen. Zell Miller (D-Georgia). But in his latest rant, a combination sermon and Limbaugh-esque namecalling fest, he manages to:
-declare his support for Judge Roy “10 Commandments” Moore of Alabama
-extensively quote the Old Testament on the Senate floor
-claim there is no concept of separation of church and state in the Constitution
-blast the idea of gay marriage
-advocate that Kid Rock be tarred and feathered
-compare the “culture of far left America” with running over a skunk
Memo to Zell Miller: Bite my shiny metal ass.
I have been called Amish in the past for my refusal to have call waiting on my phone line. I know it’s unusual not to have it, but I hate it when you’re talking to someone and another call comes in, and you can almost hear the gears turn in their head – are you more important, or is the new call more important?
I still feel that way. But since I work at home and get lots of nuisance calls during the day, I’ve finally added Caller ID to the line. And I have to say I’m enjoying it. It takes call screening to a whole new level. Plus, I can add people from the call list to the phone’s memory easily.
I know, this is like listening to someone at the turn of the century describe with wonder their new “horseless carriage.” Just call me Amish Reformed.
Adam aspired not to be a dogsbody or lickspittle, but rather to become, one day, an amanuensis.
“Why cook at home when there’s Perkins?”
I’ve been accused repeatedly, especially recently, of being blindly partisan. The conventional wisdom is that I would never criticize anyone on “my side” of the ideological fence.
Well hold onto your hats, because I think Howard Dean has done something extremely wrong.
In an e-mail to me and thousands of other supporters last Thursday, Dean wrote:
“We will get a boost this weekend in Washington, Michigan and Maine, but our true test will be the Wisconsin primary. A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2 and narrow the field to two candidates. Anything less will put us out of this race.”
In the same e-mail they put up one of the Dean fundraising “bats,” and raised more than the $700,000 goal in a single day to pay for ads and more campaigning in Wisconsin. I myself “hit the bat” again because of this e-mail.
And now Dean says he won’t quit the race after Wisconsin, no matter what happens.
This is wrong on so many levels. The worst is, he goes back on an important promise. And integrity and honesty have been Dean’s calling cards all along. But there are other problems: it makes the “bat” seem like a cheap fundraising trick. It sets Dean up for some sort of Perot-like opposition campaign, which can only hurt. It makes it easy for Republicans to laugh at Dean as a Clintonesque language-parsing “depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” Democrat.
All of this sucks, and it’s no one’s fault but Dean’s. If he doesn’t win Wisconsin (and the polls are not smiling on him here), he should get out. I want him to be a force for reform in the party, not a spoiler. He has a chance to make at least some lemonade out of this situation – I hope he still can.