Obama's SOTU — 'PIVOT'

I live-blogged Obama’s State of the Union speech at Newsreal and began my coverage with this clip from “Friends” featuring the word, “Pivot!” The predictions for the SOTU speech were that Obama would use it to pivot toward the center. He didn’t, but I like the clip so much I’m keeping it. He did say …

You know who should be live blogging the SOTU? Republican members of Congress! THAT would be TEH AWESOME!!!

(H/T a commenter at Perfunction, which has other versions of this photo from the White House’s Flickr feed that are just as hilarious. Via Ace.) I just read Michelle Malkin’s post that Joe Wilson will be the first member of Congress to answer a State of the Union address with a live video post from …

UPDATED — Just a reminder before Obama's State of the Union speech

It turns out Barack Obama is not a magic Negro. It turns out there’s no such thing as a magic Negro. Dang. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The First 364 Days 23 Hours www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Watch this from Charles Krauthammer …

Hayek and Keynes rap duel

H/T Megan McArdle via Alex Massie at The Spectator, UK. Swear to God last week I ordered the following five books: Going Rogue by Gov. Sarah Palin The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek The Fatal Conceit: the Errors of Socialism by Friedrich von Hayek Socialism by Ludwig von Mises Liberalism by Ludwig von …

Photo proof Ellie Light is real — AND, she's written to Little Miss Attila

Well, the Right blogosphere is all aflutter today — Ellie Light is real! We have found her Facebook photo (above), AND she has written identical missives to Little Miss Attila, Dan Riehl (here and here) and other bloggers all proclaiming her reality and scathingly deriding the Right’s skepticism that she exists. Well, Obama got into …

My definition of 'womanliness' is fairly broad

see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dear Cassandra of Villainous Company has recruited a number of bloggers, including Little Miss Attila and me, to write posts over at her place of ruminations about womanhood, which she is calling “The Womanliness Project.” My first post begins as follows: In the lesbian community we have the full …

UPDATED — Kevin DuJan of Hill Buzz is NOT a racist and he needs our help

The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground have outed Kevin DuJan as the owner of the blog, Hill Buzz. They are smearing him with the false charge that that he is a racist. They are urging their readers to destroy his career and attack him physically. (I’m not linking them, but you can verify this by …