Serenity… an expedition

Used by retiring or resigning or whatever Dem, Eric Massa, to describe Rahm Emmanuel:
"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn," Massa said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."

 
Er… am I hearing echoes or [...]

Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully:
Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman:
You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions provide for? [...]

I type too slow.

But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this:
News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready [...]

Lately I’ve been remembering a short story I read a few years ago in one of those little Ellery Queen or Alfred Hitchcock magazines. I think it was by Bill Pronzoni. It went something like this:
A series of letters between a woman and her husband, who was in prison for stealing a large amount of [...]

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)?
My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always [...]

When Obama’s presidency was declared a failure by some on the leftish end of the spectrum – before he’d even been inaugurated – I decided I’d give him a year in office before I really started either critisizing or praising.
This did two things… allowed President Obama to build up a record beyond that of [...]

Liberals who find out they’ve spent years and millions underwriting conservative ideology.
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Iran
I really wish I had something meaningful and relevant to say about the situation in Iran, but I don’t. There are plenty of people who actually know something about that part of the world and all the ins and outs of their politics who are saying it so much better. Me, my thoughts are with [...]

In the past few days I’ve read a few things, mostly related to Eric Boehlert’s new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press that, of course, brought back many memories of the primaries – and the massive, massive failure of most feminists and feminist and progressive sites in navigating [...]

This is pretty cool.
There was nothing remarkable about the case before Hosi Nwamitwa II, chief of the Valoyi tribe that lives in the lush hills here. A villager said his brother’s wife had failed to show up for a hearing on an accusation that she insulted neighbors. The accused pleaded guilty and was fined $30, [...]