Alabama Governor: The Toxic Culture endorsement

Look, we know it’s early. The primaries aren’t until June 2010. Only one candidate has filled out the paperwork formally throwing his hat in the ring. But after reading Saturday’s Times Daily, we don’t need to wait for Davis or Folsom to announce. It’s clear that the only choice for Alabama Governor can be Sam [...]

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Reform: Crafting a New Monkey Diet

I saw today that Citigroup got a second multi-billion dollar rescue from our government. The NYT article said that the markets reacted like they had received “a shot of adrenaline.” This is a great metaphor because the federal bailout money has become a drug, totally addictive with each infusion causing a diminished effect.
And just like [...]

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The rest of the election news

Obama won. No real surprise there. But there were a lot of other things happening in this election besides the race for the big prize. At this writing, the Coleman-Franken race is too close to call, and a mandatory recount is going to happen. Montgomery’s mayor, Bobby Bright, beat Jay Love to win a seat [...]

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This election day…

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Election Videos

Linus runs for election and because his opponent is such a good kid, he votes for Linus. Linus wins the election by a single vote and goes to the principal’s office. Watch the video for some scathing Charlie Brown political action. Kick that locker Sally!

Dead Prez are [...]

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Sheldon Adelson

Since our blog readers are from all over the world, I sometimes worry about spending too much time about one of the subject areas I know best: Alabama. As you can see from our tag cloud, we have a lot of posts about Alabama. Still, I think it’s an interesting place and I have been [...]

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Post Debate Groove

Looking back on the debates, I think about the things unasked, the spaces in between. The candidates weren’t asked about guns and the recent Supreme Court decision in Heller. And they weren’t asked about prisons. And they weren’t asked about America’s lack of industrial production as it relates to our growing addiction to consumerism and [...]

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Presidential Debate #2: We report. We decide.

The debate was utterly awful. It was a terrible and wretched, soul-melting nightmare. It was a perfect cap to a day of pathetic political theater in which Palin uttered all of the issue-dodging character smears that McCain once said were off limits. It was horrible. The only positive result of the debate was that we [...]

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Post Palin Beatdown

Yes, Palin got smoked on national television. No, she didn’t stumble and bumble, nor did she break down in tears. Because of this, people think she did a good job. Many media outlets claim she did a good job because they have an interest in seeing this presidential race remain as close as possible for [...]

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VP Debate: The Reaction

Last Friday, I was on KCRW (one of Los Angeles’ outstanding public radio stations) talking about how I thought that the presidential debates were basically national embarrassments. I talked about how the next day we were going to teach several hundred middle school students something much more demanding than these joint press conferences. I said [...]

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