I Am Recycling This Joke

Sarah Palin’s upcoming book, Going Rogue (which might be a misspelling of "rouge") is already ranked #3 on Amazon.

Which means there are going to be a lot of disappointed fans if the book arrives and is just page after page of little black squiggly lines.

Tags: Books, Politics, Sarah Palin

As Tweeted On Twitter

RIP, Ted. I’m gonna retreat to my daydream world where you ran in 1980, kept Reagan away from DC, and America never heard of the Bushes

Tags: Politics, ted kennedy, twitter

Barney Frank Is Awesome

Here’s what I wrote on Bostonist about last night’s town hall smackdown. And I have never more clearly felt the angel and devil on each shoulder as when I was coming up with that headline.

Tags: barney frank, bostonist, health care, Politics, teabaggers

Cuba Libre

Obama’s really going to slightly open relations and dealings with Cuba?

Is that really a good idea? I’m no expert, but is seems to me that the sanctions and the embargo were only 25 or 30 years away from starting to show some signs of working.

Tags: cuba, geopolitics, Politics, president obama

In Which I Solve The AIG Issue

They’re contractually obligated to pay those execs those bonuses? The execs have earned them?

Great! Have a big ceremony! Announce their names, what they did to earn that money, and hand them the checks with fanfare and lots of publicity. Put it on TV. Hell, have it in a hall open to the public; maybe some of the taxpayers would like to congratulate them in person.

And then, if some of the checks never make it to the bank to be cashed, the money goes back into the treasury.

Down the Tubes

Maybe it’s just Boston/Cambridge, but having worked in a bookstore for a long time, I feel pretty confident saying that you could get more than a dozen people for a reading of your book of haikus comparing Tianamen Square with bird migration patterns, from a Greco-Bolivian feminist perspective (Note: if you wrote this book, do not contact your local bookstore to set up this reading There’s no nice way for them to laugh you off the phone).

So it’s sad to see that the state of literature in Washington, D.C., is so poor that they can’t even draw a dozen people to Borders to see the intellectual guiding light of the Republican Party. Don’t quit your day job, Joe…oh, wait. You did.

The Republic Survived

Eight years of W and we’re still here.

I think I owe somebody a Big Mac.

11/05/08

Congratulations, America.

UPDATE: Well, not so much you, California. Seriously, WTF?

“Second Comes Right After First”

Hurty Elbow has compiled a list of runners-up in every Presidential election ever. Some of my favorites:

• Al Gore karaokeing "Any Way You Want It"
• Richard Nixon responding to his critics (far right)
• Alf Landon, no comment necessary
• John C. Breckenridge’s amazing mustache
• and Henry Clay as the Cryptkeeper.

“Second Comes Right After First”

Hurty Elbow has compiled a list of runners-up in every Presidential election ever. Some of my favorites:

• Al Gore karaokeing "Any Way You Want It"
• Richard Nixon responding to his critics (far right)
• Alf Landon, no comment necessary
• John C. Breckenridge’s amazing mustache
• and Henry Clay as the Cryptkeeper.