Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

And I was, really, when I wrote this title last night. But I’ve been “politically involved” for approximately one day and already I am tired of it. Sigh. I think, possibly, it’s because it seems to me that to get to the Teabag Republicans we have to go through all the perpetually disappointed Democrats first. [...]

So,  the “true progressives” at FireDogLake have a front page post up about mounting a primary against President Obama in 2112.  In order to… er… save the Democratic Party. (I guess maybe in one of those “we must destroy the village in order to save it” type things?) Anyway, nothing new or startling, considering the [...]

By mail, sent it off Saturday. Straight Dem ticket, except for State Treasurer, or something, where I voted for the Green and the unopposed, Republican-held congressional seat, where I wrote in luther blissett. Yes on pot and pretty much just followed the voter guide the unions sent out on the other initiatives. Left the judges [...]

I think it was during the 2006 elections that NPR had on a couple of attack ad voice-over professionals. Anyway, if I remember correctly, one guy did the “positive-attack” type ads, the nice, reasonable sounding ones. And the other guy, Scott Sanders, did the dark and ominous sounding ad voice-overs. Anyway, the host had them [...]

Which is somewhat annoying – or would be, if I wasn’t going to vote by mail. At least, I hope my mail-in ballot gets here, otherwise… it’s to the polls I go! Sometimes it’s pretty funny there. I remember a few years ago I walked into the polling station and I was the only one [...]

You know, one of those birds that pretends to be wounded to provide a distraction from their nests and their young? I could be wrong – I often am, after all – but I don’t think the midterms are going to be as bad as some predictions. I just remember during the primaries (and the [...]

I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]

Booman put together this list and since I’m on a half-way political kick this week I thought a little good political news would be in order. This should have been a good “news” week for President Obama and the Democratic congress - and would have been (to the extent that anyone pays attention to legislation and stuff) if [...]

He’s almost single-handedly smashed to smithereens the justification used to get us to vote for – or, at least, not vehemently oppose – anti-choice Democrats: “Don’t worry, there’s only a few of them and they’re with us on the big stuff.” Good luck anyone trying to pull that one on again.

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 [...]