Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania governor and frequent Hillary apologist on Hardball, looks very much like a man with “deep union roots.” Who can tell me what that’s a euphemism for? And who can honestly tell me Rendell wouldn’t bolt for Barack in a heartbeat if the latte liberal offered him a veep spot? Dispatch your emissaries, O Hopeful […]

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Sadr can’t make up his mind with this cease fire. First it’s on, then it’s off. He can’t decide whether or not he has a death wish. Either way he definitely has a weight problem.

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The New Yorker predicts the death of newspapers in their latest issue (but not the preferred elitist rag of midtown housewives, conveniently enough). Look. Papers ain’t goin’ nowhere. We’ll have papers as long as we have commuter trains. Why? ‘Cause you can’t get any fucking wireless on the train. Don’t believe Gov. Patrick when he says […]

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Mike Gravel, our most benign statist, has joined the libertarians. What’s holding you back, cynical liberal arts boy? Join us.

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The new Providence superintendent of schools, a former Army captain, told the Journal education and national defense are the two most important things in America. Retired officers get discount booze at package stores. Retired teachers pay full fare. Which team would you join, cynical liberal arts grad?

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McCain has “backed off” more “stringent” tobacco regulations, according to the AP. I stand with Sen. Khan on this one. Butts don’t kill people. Smart bombs do. Plus you can tax the hell out of cigarettes. Plus they’re cool as shit.

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Found sound fails, unless you find it in a hip-hop sample or an Orcabeat track. Take John Cage, father of found sound. Everyone under thirty pretends to like him, until they hear “Dream.” Then they really do like him for two minutes and forty-seven seconds. On “Dream” he found the piano.

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Cheney looked about as comfortable as Tom DeLay at a gay bar standing next to Abbas yesterday. The rub for these neocons is that their rhetoric forces them to stand next to these ay-rabs from time to time in the mode of liberal interventionists. If they’d adopt Dr. Paul’s rhetoric they could stay at the […]

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Brunch interests me. The breakdown between coffee drinkers and mimosa drinkers interests me. Kids in their twenties drink coffee, ’cause they’re hung over and can’t see the virtue in spending an extra five, ten dollars. Kids in their forties drink mimosas, becasue they drank moderately the night before, played a board game and forced themselves […]

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I watch a lot of Stephen Merritt and Wu-Tang online. I saw Merritt drinking Starbucks in one clip. He shouldn’t drink caffeine. It’ll poison his muse.

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Why do Iraq movies suck? Because AIPAC gets final say over editing. Ooops. Guess I’ll never get elected president.

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Hillary has released all of her records, according to the AP. This undoubtedly includes the entire discography of Pat Boone.

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“In March and June 2008,” proclaims the World Naked Bike Ride website, “in cities around the world, people will be riding bikes naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against car culture.”
Maybe it was the New England Quakers who originated […]

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easter’s early this year, guess jesus didn’t see his shadow (only the second time i’ve used this joke since i came up with it yesterday, still newly minted, yet not as offensive to xtian sensibility as i’d like)
eyes on the ground: watching street trash (you find a lot of money and drugs this way)
eyes on […]

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The AP reports this morning that a healthy percentage of college students feel “stress,” and that many of them feel it “all the time.” In spite of this, most students report “enjoying life.” Sounds like citizens of empire to me, right before the fall.  

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