Can I have ten bucks?

This is Angie Paccione (rhymes with catch a pony) and she's running for congress against Mailyn Musgrave, who is not only an unethical witch, but also the author of the no-marriage-for-homos amendment for the Constitution.  Musgrave recently said (during a fundraiser) that gay marriage is the "most important issue" facing America today (sure am glad we got that War on Terror all wrapped up).  Musgrave has GOT TO GO—she's a source of much evil in the world and in congress in particular.  

Angie Paccione actually stands a good chance of winning. She is running a fantastic race and all she needs is a little bit more money to push her over the victory line!

I just gave Angie (another) $10. Please, pretty-please-with-sugar, contribute $10 yourself.  Ten bucks is nothing and it's a nice gesture that you are sick of people like Musgrave in the congress.

UPDATE: CQ Politics has just changed the rating of the race from "Republican Favored" to "Leans Republican." This is fantastic news.

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Lunchtime video fun

Here's Bill Clinton on Fox News Sunday with weaselly Chris Wallace. The Big Dog schools Wallace about a third of the way into it. 

This is beyond fabulous. Finally some honesty. It's nice to see him spend a little of his remaining political capital and I’m gratified to see him finally fighting back against the wingnuts who have made his life a living hell since the day he took office.  Let’s hope other Democrats continue to figure out that picking a real fight with the media and with these loser Republicans is not only good on the substance, it’s damned good politics.  When you attack the media and make those self-absorbed guardians of the national discourse part of the story, you break through their habitually snickering, narcissistic filter.  They can’t help but go with the story, if only to clutch the pearls and tut tut about your passion.  Just ask Sid Blumenthal.

And here's some reaction. First, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (who covers the rest of the media so I don't have to):

I think Jon Stewart's take on the media's reaction is, as usual, right on target. TDS once again strings together different clips of video to let people hang themselves, in this case it's the different talking heads shoveling thier bullshit for their sadly misinformed (especially in the case of Fox) viewers.  The video speaks for itself but Stewart's "oh really? Who the fuck are you?" is a great capper.

Next, some Keith Olberman:

Olberman is turning into the Edward R. Murrow of our day.

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Should I be concerned?

This evening for dinner I had a cheese sandwich and three glasses of red wine. Later, my roommate smoked me out (she made me).  I found a box of chocolates HP had squirreled away in a cabinet. I recognized this chocolate as a commercial promotion he brought home from work last Christmas — you know the kind, where the company puts its logo on a big bar of chocolate and sends one to each of the company's clients (which the client company's secretary intercepts and eats at her desk and then one day in January ends up crying in her bathroom from all the weight she put on over the holidays).  Naturally, this means the chocolate I am eating is a year old. And it tastes a little off, but I can't tell if that's because it's too old or because it's low-quality promotional chocolate.  But that's not even the thing that has me concerned. `

I turned on Comedy Central to watch Jon Stewart rip into somebody (sadly, a little disappointing tonight). I stayed on  through Colbert. In my tipsy, slightly-stoned and chocolate-scrafing craze, I watched an episode of Mind Of Mencia. And I laughed. I laughed my ass off.  It's kind of like the Man Show but this is actually funny. I even stayed up till 12:30 and am halfway through the second episode (it's the commercial right now).   This show is totally retarded and I am so into it.  Should I be concerned? 

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