The Flippable District No One Knows About
One congressional race completely off everyone's radar is Eastern Washington's fifth congressional district. However, this is a race that may very well be in play: We have a uniquely qualified and...
View ArticleEnuff about freakin Federal Hall
At what point does the specificity get bizarre?I almost wrote this diary the other day when I was watch McNovaCane talk about the "town hall challenge", and I just saw the same thing again in my...
View ArticleAsterisk Culture
There's a front page diary right now about the McCains, and the fact they have credit cards. The debate rages on the thread there about the appropriateness in political debate of this level of...
View ArticleThe John McCain OMY@C Drinking Game
"I've never said that." (1 shot) "I've always said that..." (1 shot) "I've cast manys of votes in the Senate, and can't possibly remember them all" (2 shots) "Twerp." (2 shots) "As you...
View ArticleMarriage and Drinking Fountains
Molly Ivins (Lord, how we miss ya) wrote several times that it was the drinking fountains that turned manys of my parent's generation to the left as children--it was so ridiculously, obviously, and...
View ArticleMy arbirtrary list of things McCain could have done today, but didn't
*His job*Planted a tree*Tipped a busker*Been intellectually consistent*Watched Ratatouille*Eaten ratatouille*Made his own cranky, crotchety list of things people could have arbitrarily done in a feeble...
View ArticleWhy the frak don't we get anything?
Or, "I'm so tired being angry at the big stuff (war, torture, habeas), I've decided to start being angry about the little stuff.So, what started as a casual email to my father (who's not a congressman)...
View Article"The Lifeboat Game"
The problem with having to waste my day at work is that I read excellent diaries on the trolley in the morning, and stew and ruminate and percolate all day but don't have time to comment on them. So...
View Article"The Party of Freedom"
Every week on ABC, it seems, Will feels the need to point out that they'll tell you "what kind of car you can buy." He's apparently obsessed with the automotive options that will be presented to him...
View ArticleDear Mr. President--Start talking about living wills.
Because all a "Death panel" really is, after all, is just reimbursing your doctor for spending time talking about end of life issues with you. That's not scary.Well, it is a little scary. But people...
View Article35 words.
"Everyone knows what republican means-- get the refs off the field and give the poor rich people a break. The past decade was a laboratory for that premise and everyone knows how that movie...
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