And wow are these files getting big. Our latest is SC GOP activist Rusty DePass, who decided say that an escaped gorilla was an ancestor of Michelle Obama’s: DePass did apologize, but that doesn’t excuse the hidden racism in this guy. To be able to make a knee jerk “joke” like this is telling of […]

And no I’m not talking about the Tom Cruise flick. Washington Post’s Dan Balz has a very interesting article up today about the shifting demographics in our nation and how it is really putting the hurt on Republicans, to the point they are facing a permanent minority status: For the past few months, political analysts […]

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX80 way back in 80. A couple years later I got a Commodore 64 and really fell in love. I spent so many childhood nights learning how to program, and that is what lead me into my career in the computer field. I actually still play with the […]

There is a ton of outrage going on over the Justice Department’s brief filed in a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, and that outrage is rightfully so. But there is something lacking in the discussion that has emerged – the fact that there are still a lot of unfilled positions in the DOJ. […]

So yesterday was the big day to switch to digital television. Estimates have it at over 2 million who were left without television following the switch. I just wonder how many are left with television, but much less television. Let me explain. I live in the country between Dayton and Cincinnati. I am right on […]

I never heard of “April’s Mom”, but apparently she was someone the pro-life right wing was getting behind. A young, expectant mother who was told her baby was mentality ill yet decided to give birth. She blogged about the decisions and raising the child. Only one problem. It was a lie. 26 year old Beccah […]

Watch this compilation video Media Matters put together of Joe Scarborough on the DHS report, then decide – is Scarborough suffering from amnesia or is he just a plan old liar? Last month Scarborough said he couldn’t believe that the DHS released a report “attacking right wingers” and then yesterday he said he never criticized […]

Republicans loved Chelsea Clinton. She instantly became their constant punch line. For example here is John McCain: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” — Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998. And let’s not forget Rush Limbaugh: it was Limbaugh who ridiculed Chelsea Clinton, then 13, […]

Following the shooting at the Holocaust Museum this week the right has been in defense mode. They are trying everything to pain James Von Brunn as some lefty or just a plain old loon. The problem with that is he isn’t. Just like in lefty liberal land there are extremes of right wing/neo-con land. James […]

The WHO just changed the Swine Flu to a level 6, its highest level which makes it a pandemic now.