Don’t drop the soap

Michael at Pushing Rope points out just how batshit insane Redstate’s Erik Erickson is.  Check out Erickson’s reaction to a Washington state law on the Earth-shattering, mind blowing, uber-important issue of, uh, barring phosphates in dishwasher detergent: At what point do the people tell the...

Israeli PM Netanyahu treats Obama like the president treats GM

The title of this post is the best metaphor I can think of to illustrate what Netanyahu has done with his threat to Iran.  He’s issued an ultimatum not just Iran but Obama, too. To see this as an ultimatum, you have to ask if Netanyahu is bluffing.  In thinking of the answer to that question,...

Depression (Both Kinds) Is a Government Conspiracy

McClatchy picks up an article from the Fresno Bee, about Mendota, California, where unemployment is 41% and people don’t have $1 to pay for a blouse in a thrift shop: The customer seemed interested in a black blouse offered for $1 at the thrift store. But instead of buying it, she set it on the front...

Americans Fault Bush and Wall Street for Economy, Not Obama

Despite the eagerness among conservative bloggers and media pundits to make  Pres. Obama responsible for the fact that the economic downturn has not righted itself in the two months since he took office, Americans in general are more inclined to blame the former administration and Wall Street malfeasance, a...

More Annals of Stupidity

Hot on the heels of the “turn on all your lights and electrical appliances and roast some animal flesh for good measure” nyah-nyah from the Rebels Without a Cause crowd, comes this new hyperventilation. It seems that Hillary Clinton, while on a visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe...