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Archive for August, 2008

McCain/Palin 2008: “Bitches Ain’t Shit”

Posted: Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 1:23 pm in Political | 12 Comments »

Remember how John McCain giggled and chuckled when a supporter asked him, “How do we beat the bitch?” (referring to Hillary Clinton)?

(If you have problems viewing the embedded video, head over to YouTube to watch it.)
Well, his running mate, Sarah Palin, also thinks it’s pretty funny when somebody calls her political opponent a “bitch” and [...]

Just A Gigolo?

Posted: Friday, August 22nd, 2008 @ 1:23 pm in Political | 1 Comment »

Remember how, four years ago, John Kerry was derided as a “gigolo” because his second wife had so much money?
But if there is one characteristic of Kerry’s life that should disqualify him absolutely as a candidate for president, it is the fact that he has sought out millionaire wives to take care of him. Not [...]

Wingnut Terrorism, or “Deliver Us From Evil”

Posted: Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm in Political | 9 Comments »

First it was Jim Adkisson, the wingnut who loved Savage and Hannity and shot up a Unitarian church because he wanted to kill some “liberals and gays.” He shot up the church “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that [...]

RIP, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted: Monday, August 4th, 2008 @ 4:24 pm in Literature | 3 Comments »

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a hero, “a symbol of freedom and the durability of the human spirit,” as his obit in today’s Post has it. But let’s face it, readers, he was not a very good writer.
Did you ever actually try to read The Gulag Archipelago? It’s like being trapped down at the end [...]

Virginia: New “Swing State”

Posted: Monday, August 4th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm in Political | 7 Comments »

An article in today’s Washington Post says that the Commonwealth of Virginia, traditionally a bastion of conservatism, has become a “swing state.”
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and President Bush carried the state twice, by nine and eight points. But the campaigns of Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, [...]