After two days of ominous and bloody protests, Egyptian social media is now back online. Meanwhile, the dictatorial regime of the ossified Hosni Mubarak is bracing for yet another day of street confrontations.  The U.S. State Department has issued a relatively enlightened statement about the incipient revolt — enlightened, at least, to how bad the [...]

The generality, vagueness and basic vanilla blandness of President Obama’s SOTU speech was, in its way, rather politically brilliant.  It also unofficially marks the onset of his re-election campaign. Conservatives were primed to pounce on what might have been an address laden with liberal legislative promises.  Progressives were sort of hoping the Prez would give [...]

I was laying around today thinking about how many different ways we are getting screwed by so many in power and one thought led to another. I concluded at the end of this exercise that, indeed, all roads (especially those stemming from screwing) lead to sex. And, therefore, what better time to link to the [...]

If she’s not careful, Sarah Palin might wind up being the victim she portrayed herself as in her grotesque “blood libel” speech. I don’t think I’m revealing a state secret when I say it is common knowledge that there are a whole lot of  potential Republican presidential candidates, strategists and party-poo-bahs who would love to [...]

Sorry, I’ve been VERY busy and now will attempt to start blogging again. Let’s get a quick jump-start with Sarah Palin. I will allow Bill Saletan to deconstruct her vastly ignorant and offensive remark about “blood libel.” But having listened, in great pain, to her jumbled and quite defensive statement issued earlier on Wednesday I [...]