Homage to Icarus

48 hours later, and I’m already com­pos­ing an apolo­gia for Obama. Well, let’s get into it on Rahm Emanuel:

I live in Chicago
I con­tributed money to Obama’s cam­paign
Emanuel is the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for my district

To be hon­est, the main rea­son I had for both­er­ing to vote in the elec­tion before the bailout was to vote against Rep. Emanuel. […]

Glenn Greenwald is dis­cussing the stun­ning hypocrisy of Republicans, as they decry the viciously par­ti­san Democrats for out­ing a gay Republican  —  osten­si­bly because drag­ging per­sonal sex­ual con­duct into pol­i­tics will drive good peo­ple from gov­er­nance.
Color me cyn­i­cal, but why is this such a shock? This is the same crowd that spent a large chunk of 1992 […]

So I’m lis­ten­ing to an older clip from CNN, and I have to say this. To ask George Allen whether he is Jewish or not is a scum­bag ques­tion. The “he’s just a celebrity” excuse is lam­en­ta­bly lame, and I for one got the impres­sion that Arianna Huffington would just as soon the per­son who […]

I’ve delinked American Samizdat after a racist post was not only pub­lished, but defended by both the orig­i­nal poster and another con­trib­u­tor to the site. My exact com­ments on the racism are avail­able on the offend­ing AmSam post, for those who are inter­ested. Supposedly the same post got them banned from Daily Kos. I had […]

Sigh. After only a few short months of pay­ing atten­tion to them, I have already tired of the Democrats and their assorted min­ions.
If noth­ing else, the idea that it’s some­how in the Bush Administration’s best inter­est to claim the NSA spy­ing pro­gram was some advanced data min­ing pro­ce­dure  —  and thus be able to wave the magic […]