Google Video & Hulu have allowed us to relive some of the finest moments from TV. One of my favorite characters from SNL was Debbie Downer (played by a morbid Rachel Dratch). These two were my favorite clips, mostly because the cast couldn’t stay in character (if you can’t see these below via RSS, [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by JM
One thing that has vexed me for years is the fact that poorer, relatively unskilled people across the country tend to vote Republican, even though Republican economic policies tend to favor the rich. I’m not the first to wonder why many relatively poor people vote against their own economic interests. A good friend of mine [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by JM
After reading the rousing words of ADF legal counsel Brian Raum, I felt moved enough to write the ADF and commend them for their efforts:
Thank you for supporting bigotry.
Bigots all around this great country of ours have had a hard time lately making their views the law of the land.
Constantly harangued by equality-obsessed radicals, the [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by JM
I know people will bemoan McClellan’s lack of loyalty to his former employer. But it’s important to keep in mind that when your boss abuses his/her power, to the detriment of the common good (especially when it leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, ruins the economy, etc.), then you have an [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by JM
Is that all they’ve got on Obama? The Republicans are showing how desperate they’ve gotten, reduced to grasping at virtual straws because that’s all they’ve got left.
Let’s see, whenever you make an accusation of dishonesty, it’s instructive to look at intent. Why would Obama confuse Ohrdruf/Buchenwald with Auschwitz? Are those who liberated Auschwitz somehow [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by JM
The Bay Area is a unique place, and SF in particular is. I think it’s partly due to the fact that the average age seems to be 25 (it’s a popular place to move right after college), and in some ways is much more advanced than the rest of the country in terms of progessiveness [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by JM
Because it sucks.
I always, stupidly, check it before dressing in the morning. At least 50% of the time, it’s off by more than 10 degrees during the day.
Today, it said it would reach a high in SF of 73 degrees F. We’re in SOMA, a relatively warm part of the city, so I figured, if [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by JM
Much like Rapunzel, Barack Obama seems to have spent much of his life in an ivory tower. I’m beginning to think Rev Wright is less of a problem for connecting with blue-collar voters than his propensity to use ten-dollar words when anything beyond a $2.50 word is incomprehensible to those without a college education. (That’s [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by JM
Every time one of the Democratic candidates seems to get “the momentum” after a spate of contests, they lose it the next go-around. Could their foibles and scandals really be so precisely timed as to take the wind out of their campaign precisely after it seemed like it was gaining strength?
Philosophically, I’m a Taoist. Taoism [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by JM
