So Al Franken’s going to be seated.  Norm Coleman only managed to deprive Minnesota of a second senator for 1/12 of a senator’s term.  Of course, did anybody think to ask Harry Reid?  I mean, he just might decide to seat Coleman anyway.  Did anybody check to make sure that Harry Reid’s glands weren’t releasing [...]

I know I just railed about states of exception or categories that only have one thing in them, but this is profoundly bizarre and absolutely amazing.  It’s the Sixties-iest thing I’ve ever seen.  The sets are incredible.  It’s like art on the corporate campus of a company that manufactured sex robots for the Soviet Union.  [...]

Maybe this is my secret middlebrow self surfacing, but I don’t understand the point of meting out a sentence that exceeds the human lifespan, let alone the life expectancy of a 71-year old man.  There is a certain rhetorical satisfaction in assigning a big number instead of telling someone, “You’re going to prison for the [...]

States that are ugly, conservative, homophobic, culturally sterile or some combination thereof.

Louisiana gets a bye due to New Orleans, but Georgia does not.  It’s a big heap of crazy.  Utah and Wyoming are so beautiful they can go as cuckoo bananas as they want politically and it won’t matter.  Florida and Pennsylvania are too awful [...]

I hate pride.  I hate the concept of being proud of things you didn’t actually achieve.  ‘Proud to be American’ rankled me from the moment it hit bumpers nationwide.  And being proud to be gay makes almost as little sense, although you could argue that there is something of a hurdle involved in achieving comfort [...]

This is as sad or sadder than when Bea Arthur died, because even though she possessed the power to wither flesh, it is entirely possible to conceive of someone like her one day coming along again.  Also, she didn’t perform per se and now I will never get to see Michael Jackson strut around.  Sadz.  [...]

Jed Lewison, DK’s compiler of video clips, might honestly be one of those rare bloggers who sits in the basement snacking in pajamas all day.  This really sucks.

That is supremely boring (whatever; don’t even watch it, although it does have Man Who Looks Like an Old Lesbian Lindsey Graham), as it basically documents only the [...]

Whenever there’s a sex scandal, it’s always hard to separate the hypocrisy from the fucking.  It’s easy to become a left-leaning prurient hypocrite when it looks expedient.  John Ensign, who tried really hard to get Larry Craig to withdraw gracefully from the Senate when caught with his pants down in Minneapolis.  I mean, that was [...]

When Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Connecticut Senate primary, a lot of that was due to Lieberman being a sanctimonious, warmongering douche.  But there was also a mobile sculpture that dogged him at events, called “The Kiss,” in reference to a supposed incident where Bush planted one on him, maybe at the [...]