Monthly Archives: January 2009

High Fiiiiiive

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

No explanation necessary. HIGH-FIVE INAUGURATION! – watch more funny videos [via Wonkette]

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Keith Olbermann Has Known Links to Al Qaeda

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

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Law: Laid Down

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

Here’s the inside scoop from the Bush-free Department of the Interior’s first all-staff meeting. New Secretary Ken Salazar says: Yes to science, no to government-sanctioned criminality, and also, let’s all play us some basketball.

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Because Why Not?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

This is a couple days old, and it’s clearly designed to elicit breathless denunciations. But it’s also something that really shouldn’t go without being breathlessly denounced. So here goes. I get that Christopher Hitchens likes to swing his big contrarian … Continue reading →

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Speaking Of…

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

And speaking of news from on high, here’s some more bearded lads that are blowing up all over the place — the Fleet Foxes — playing for the cameras on network television.

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News from on High

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

Love that line. Blue Mass Group used it best, announcing that a press release from the Speaker’s office had found its way onto their internets. In that spirit, I note that Rolling Stone, which is a magazine, throws some love … Continue reading →

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Obama Buys off Media – With Access?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

So now we know: Barack Obama does have love the bulk of the newspapering media, and does just hate that Che-tatted rag, the Times, as had been widely rumored. Because: One of Hopey’s first official acts as King of Amerika was rolling … Continue reading →

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Occupy Yourselves

Posted on January 15, 2009 by admin

This web-blog, already limping along under the awful weight of full-time employment, will be taking a long weekend while its author heads to upstate New York for the purpose of sitting in a cabin and drinking some gold medal-winning beers. … Continue reading →

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Send in the Clowns

Posted on January 15, 2009 by admin

The Phoenix‘s Chris Faraone has written the story every State House journalist dreams about – a savage takedown of the bloated, do-nothing Governor’s Council. It’s right here, for those that don’t wish to soil their hands with filthy black lung-ish … Continue reading →

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Line of the Day

Posted on January 14, 2009 by admin

Here’s Deval Patrick’s new transportation secretary, Jim Aloisi, responding to Senate President Therese Murray’s withering criticism of his Pike service plaza privitization plan as “disjointed.” “I am on the second day of my job. The fact that I’m able to … Continue reading →

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