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Snowed in, clumping mascara edition
Look at those branches. I think that’s the effect you’re supposed to get from using powder + mascara. Thickens the lashes.
I sure hope my internet doesn’t go out.
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Snowed in!
Several inches of snow arrived at the Smoking Lounge today, as you can see from the above photo. By the way, this is a rare opportunity for you all to see Raoul in his ectoplasm form, albeit covered in snow. See those two snow drift shapes in the chairs? That’s actually Raoul [...]
A fair deal for every American
That’s what the Justice Party is about: a fair deal for every American. Whether you’re rich or poor, male or female, black or white or brown or beige — no matter who you are, you deserve a fair deal. All of us do. Not just the bankers and the fat cats [...]
It’s that special time of year, when we celebrate the birth of the Cosmic Jewish Zombie
I was skimming around the blogs and news sites this evening while waiting to hear if Martha Coakley won in Massauchussets, when this post from Riverdaughter made me snort-laugh. She quoted the following Urban Dictionary definition of Christianity:
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever [...]
The female Andrew Jackson
(And now, a brief digression from our ongoing Diocletian working session, which continues here and here.)
Someone emailed me last night about Sarah Palin. “Do you think she’s going to run for president?” my correspondent asked.
Of course she’s going to run for president. She’s already running for president.
I knew that the day she resigned [...]
Dreaming of Diocletian
Friday, November 27, 2009 — ATTENTION: Wingnut/twit visitors. Read this. Thank you. (P.S. Not sure if you’re a wingnut or a twit? You probably are. Go read the link.)
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When the Roman Empire was broken, Diocletian fixed it. He completely revamped the imperial government, discarding centuries of tradition [...]
Why right-wing populism works
(This started out as a paragraph in the working session thing I’m knocking together, but it got so big that I decided it needed its own post.)
Why does right-wing populism work? Short answer: because left-wing populism is dead.
Or, to put it another way, and more accurately: Republican cultural populism [...]
About that non-vacuum in which Stupak happened…
Kate Harding has a good piece in Salon that captures the PUMA-a-year-later zeitgeist we’ve been talking about here (to recap: A year later, world suddenly gets what PUMAs were talking about, House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men, and Rachel Maddow is becoming post-rational).
Harding’s piece is called Face it: The Democratic Party [...]
House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men
Isn’t it exciting? I know I’m excited.
Earlier today, before the House began debate on the historic vote, President Obama delivered a pep talk to Congressional Democrats:
“I’m absolutely confident we’ll get this done,” Obama said, according to the aide. “And when I’m in the Rose Garden signing a piece of legislation to give [...]
A year later, world suddenly gets what PUMAs were talking about
So it turns out that the Democratic-sponsored health care reform bill will officially treat women as unpersons: freakish beings whose bizarre, non-human needs cannot possibly be considered part of basic health care. Perhaps we’re extra-terrestrials:
None of the bills emerging from the House and Senate require insurers to cover all the elements of [...]
