I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
No, actually. No girl fight. As most of us know, Minnesota Congresswoman and American history mangler Michele Bachmann is running for President. She’s announced this two or three times now and she’s on the road either announcing it more or raising money in primary states as we speak. That’s a good thing because while she’s out of DC announcing things, she’s not in DC trying to horn in on the debt ceiling talks. Michele Bachmann…
I’ve gone on a weird Sarah Palin research bender the past couple of weeks. I’m not sure what sent me on this knowledge quest: maybe the bus tour, maybe the bells she rang to alert the British that Americans like guns, maybe the feature length film about herself that she didn’t really commission because when she suggested commissioning it, the director just offered to make it gratis. Who knows. Whatever the case, I have read…
I just saw this quote from Newt Gingrich and it’s bothering me. “Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to occupy the White House.” – Newt Gingrich, quoted in a new book, Subversion Inc., as reported by the American Spectator. Ok, usually, I have to give a lot of credit to Newt. He’s a smart guy, a thinker, a fan of science and a master of language. I don’t agree with…
If you want to throw up a little in your mouth, watch this video. If you are not interested in throwing up, I can sum it up for you: 51 women talk about whether or not evolution should be taught in schools as if this is a legitimate question with real merit. All of them treat the idea of evolution being taught in schools like a radioactive subject and act as if they’re being very…
Remember Billboard Douche? If you don’t, read my post about him. Rehashing the details makes me go all incoherent and angry. Anyway, I’ve been keeping one eye on him to see what the outcome of this case is. I really want the billboard taken down on the grounds that he shared private – and possibly erroneous – medical information about another person in a way that was potentially harmful to her. So far there’s been…
NOTE: There were a couple of other photos on this post at one point that made speculations about the creator of the original billboard. While I could argue that they were protected speech under the parody or satire allowances, I’m not in the mood to get sued by a goon with a lawyer who takes all insults really personally. The remaining images do not make any judgments about the person who wrote the original billboard…
Much to the shock of no one in particular, Representative Anthony Weiner got up on tv today and admitted to sending pictures of his goodies to some woman on Twitter. The reason this is not shocking is because the goody shot has been circulating for a week and Weiner has been obfuscating for almost as long, neither confirming nor denying anything. If it wasn’t his goodies, he would have said “No, dude, I don’t eve…
Yesterday, I read this little gem from Sarah Palin in the Washington Post. “In my opinion any mandate coming from government is not a good thing,” Palin told reporters outside Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, the latest stop on her whirlwind bus tour up the east coast that began on Sunday. She sure covered a lot of ground in one short sentence. All government mandates are bad if she’s to be believed. All of them. Not…
I have the worst case of writer’s block. It’s like the sections of my brain given over to words have been filled with oatmeal instead of ideas. I can’t get into reading anything either because anything having to do with words is such a mental slog. I keep waiting for everything to shake loose so I can get rolling again but the longer I go without reading or writing, the harder it gest to read…
