I keep hearing a lot about how Sarah Palin is ‘patriotic’, & that trumps her lack of qualifications and general awfulness. I’m usually quick to dismiss this as lazy thinking, since patriotism is a love of country, and a country is a set of principles (or truths that we hold self-evident ), and the current […]
You know, someday I hope to do more with this blog than parrot what was on the Daily Show, but damn…they’ve been on a roll lately. Might be NSFW, or too much for the overtly-Republican…
Well, I used to say that I was ambivalent about the two front runners for President, McCain and Obama. I had an unexplained level of respect for McCain, perhaps just from an understanding of his personal sacrifices as a soldier and his years of public service. And it helped that he didn’t seem to be […]
Ack. Just saw over on Pajiba that FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS was probably wrapping up for good. I’ve only lately come around to watching this show and slowly, ever so slowly, it got to me. Sure, some of the dim-witted-ness seems forced and can get repetitive, but hey…it’s also pretty damn funny about 75% of […]