Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

You Gotta Have a Gimmick

If you wanna make it, Twinkle while you shake it. If you wanna grind it, Wait till you refined it. If you wanna stump it, Bump it with a trumpet! Get yourself a gimmick and you too, Can be a star! – Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics from the musical, Gypsy See the full-size FLASH animation here.

Finally Facing My Waterloo

“We invented the Revolution but we don’t know how to run it.” – Jean Paul Marat from Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss From the National Journal: A day after Sunday’s historic vote in the House in favor of the Senate’s healthcare plan, sending it to Obama for his signature, critics mocked DeMint’s “Waterloo” comments on his [...]

Mr. Bunning, Monsieur the Marquis

“It is extraordinary to me,” said he, “that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that.” He threw out a gold coin for the valet to [...]

NSFW Obama!

I ran across this delightful adult toy this morning as I was working at my day job – which is porn: He’s called Beatin’ Barack and if you go to the Pipedreams site, you can see him in “action”. If you click the pic above, you can see him in his NSFW plastic glory.

Jumping on the Twitterwagon

Even got the TwitPic account: *note* Not sure why the TwitPic embed cuts the head off the image but what the hell. It’s free and you get what you pay for.

I did never know so full a voice

…issue from so empty a heart. But the saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.” William Shakespeare from his play Henry V John Heilemann and Mark Halperin starring in the painting Three Gossips by Louis Grosclaude (Late 1800s)

The Whack-A-Joe Game!

Give Joe Lieberman the smackin’ he deserves for being such a jerk!Click the pic and play away!

Boehner Bawl

I learned two things after watching yesterday’s long-winded preamble to passage of the House HCR bill: 1. Abortion scares the shit out of Washington D.C. 2. John Boehner cold reads his scripts speeches. Bonus lesson: Ahn Cao possesses the gift of independent thought.

Happy 2009 Election Day!

Doug Hoffman as Buffoon Playing a Lute by Frans Hals (1623-1624) So? Will the conservatives win big? Will the media succeed in painting this small smattering of contests as a “referendum on Obama?”