Your Humble Blogger doesn’t know anything about the people behind this, but I was pleased to see Shut It Down October 17, 2007 linking anti-war activism to the labor movement (or what’s left of it). I started musing about how…
Here’s the thing. When they (you know, “they”) talk about throwing a bit of red meat to the base, in YHB’s case the Democratic base, generally it seems to be a very small bit of meat indeed, and has a…
Benjamin Rosenbaum has made a Lazyweb Request for people with mad graphic design skillz to make up posters parodying the rather nasty SVP “black sheep” poster of which you may have heard. Or not, depending on what news you get….
Your Humble Blogger was surprised to read in the Hartford Courant this morning that General Petraeus had been Changing The Debate: WASHINGTON – The report and proposed troop drawdown Gen. David H. Petraeus offered Monday opened a new phase in…
So, every now and then, I get very cranky about political argument. I think the particular thing I get cranky about is a fairly common source of crank among people who like rhetoric and argument. It’s the lack of persuasiveness….
Just as a one-liner, Your Humble Blogger is fond of this press release from Rahm Emanuel (D-IL): Alberto Gonzales is the first Attorney General who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things….
I’m not sure that Gentle Readers will have seen Adele M. Stan’s note on Tapped Pelosi: If Things Were Different, I’d Want to Impeach. And I know many Gentle Readers have been wanting to get out the impeachment gavel for…
The article called Senate tied in knots by filibusters, by Margaret Talev for McClatchy Newspapers, has been the subject of some discussion in Left Blogovia, as it shows that (a) the filibuster, or rather the threat of filibuster and demand…
So, if it’s OK with y’all, Gentle Readers, I’m just going to fling at you a bunch of things I thought were interesting to post about, but which I haven’t actually written a post about: There are some interesting things…
It’s been a while since Your Humble Blogger featured a political speech, here in this Tohu Bohu. In fact, I’ve made it almost all the way through this political season without paying much attention to speeches. I’ve paid attention to…