Huh, so this is a thing that happened today.
President Obama Nominates Potential 2012 GOP Opponent to be Ambassador to China
In the White House’s Diplomatic Room, this morning, President Obama announced that he would nominate one of his potential 2012 Republican opponents, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to be Ambassador to China….
During the transition, then-President-elect Obama told [...]

I have no clue where this image comes from, but I am goddamn sure that having a Rushmore golem patrolling the countryside cannot possibly go terribly wrong. This is the future of politics, people.

It turns out the fellow who draws Mother Goose and Grimm also draws editorial cartoons. The daily strip is an exercise in the banal, but the editorial cartoons are actually pretty good.

It’s strange watching the right-wing attempt to protest; their heart is in it, but they don’t know what they’re actually supposed to do. To be fair, the right isn’t any better than the left at staying on message.

Operation Coffee Cup was a campaign intended to organized opposition to “socialized medicine”, or Medicare. Regan cut a record for it.

On the recording Reagan states the following about Medicare –

…one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his first duties in office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
That executive order is expected during Obama’s first week on the job — and possibly on his first day, according to two transition team advisers. Both [...]

Do you remember the random fact generators, particularly the Chuck Norris generator? The database was quickly overrun, the clever entries diluted into harmlessness by hundreds of “lol roundhouse” jokes, with the aftermath leaving Chuck Norris a regular commentator on World Net Daily. A few days ago e posted a tongue-in-cheek list of campaign [...]

There’s a greeting card kiosk across from the counter at work that I’ve had to see a lot of, and there’s one card in particular that’s beginning to bother me. (Well, two actually, but I don’t really want to write about a card that prominently features a crudely drawn asshole at the moment.) [...]

The crap surrounding the Attorney General and the seemingly political firings at the Justice Department just got a little more interesting. You can read the article at the New York Times, and it’s a good article, but there’s something quite subtle in there. Here’s the opening paragraph.
WASHINGTON, March 13 — Under criticism from [...]