There’s nothing important going on in the world and, what the hell, Kristof’s got the Middle East and Asia covered, so Tom Friedman decided to write a column extolling Tom Watson for his good round of golf while being old.  My cliche count registers at a four (including the title, “59 Is the New 30,” [...]

So Sarah Palin ain’t the governor of Alaska no more.  She didn’t exactly go out guns blazing, but with another blob of verbal protoplasm.  Her style of impromptu self-interruption littered with platitudes reminds me of the way people speak when they’re being grilled by their superiors–except she talks that way with prepared notes.  Palin did [...]

The federal minimum wage rose on Friday to $7.25 an hour.  When you think about the powerful vested interests who oppose paying the poorest workers that much (and do consider what their likely views on cash benefits and state assistance likely are), it’s kind of amazing that it’s even that high.  That means that, with [...]

I can’t help it, but this image is arresting.

I know, I know, it’s an ad and even though clicking the ads on the blogs you read supports those blogs [Queerty in this case], I’m getting suckerpunched in the solar plexus by a car insurance company.  (If you actually click the ad, you can see a [...]

Sarah Palin: soon to be a woman without an office.  If she’s the least bit serious about 2012, she’s going to need a crusade to stay relevant.
Birthers: a percolating stew of the disaffected.  Nothing crystallizes their paranoia about everything like the idea that the black president with the Muslim name might be an alien.  Any [...]

This might be one of the more controversial opinions I have: there is a constitutional right to bear arms.  It is unambiguous and expansive.  Let me now temper the fury no doubt raging in the vast reaches of the blogosphere upon hearing that remark by saying that God is for the retardant and gay marriage [...]

Via Joe.My.God., the Free Republic has courageously called for the dissolution of the legislative and executive branches of government, which essentially means the end of the United States as a nation.  Visually, it lacks the punch of calligraphy on a scroll, more closely resembling an Angelfire webring site from 1997.  But I’m sure deep down [...]

Not back to the Triassic period, like the protagonist’s psychological state in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (which I just read and it’s quite well overwritten).  More like back to 1983.  Lately, all I do is complain about what a mediocre president Obama is turning out to be and all the rest of that [...]

I wonder how many vials of smelling salts Jo-Ann Fabrics sold yesterday, because blogger Marcy Wheeler/emptywheel said blowjob on the teevee.  This violated everything in the book.  It ranks up there with such grave constitutional crises as Bill Clinton’s receiving one, a notable episode from back in the days when pretty much everything was comparatively [...]