Bad journalism as batting practice

It is with a heavy heart that I write this post.
You see, I like Christie Blatchford. I really do.
Yeah, she can be simpering at times, and she has never understood the meaning of the phrase “save the drama for your mama” … but she’s a good columnist: quick-witted, nasty as she needs to be and [...]

Why Thinking People Hate the Bush Administration: Part Eleventy-Billion

You know a smart administration is making the decisions when they “take scientists out of decision making on species status.”
And it’s just awesome that doing so “doesn’t require the approval of congress.”
In totally unexpected reaction to this move, “developers welcomed the plan, while environmentalists derided it.”
No! Really?
Environmentalists derided a plan that would put the decision-making [...]

Shooting Fish In A Barrel

I haven’t written shit on this blog for nearly a month. And I don’t see the point in writing shit now. For two completely contradictory reasons.
The first reason can be summed up nicely by this bullshit:
During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser [...]

Crucifying Obama

I know I’m kind of a sucker for Barack Obama these days. I know there’s a tag on my blog that exists because I keep posting about cool shit that he does. I know I’m supposed to use this blog to call out the bullshit obfuscation that is so prevalent in politics instead of cheerleading [...]

Signs of the Endtimes: Vol. 1

Look, I need to do something to justify my creeping sense of impending doom, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to walk around telling everyone the sky is falling like Chicken Little with a goatee and glasses.
So to help relieve the gloom, I figured … fuck it, if the ship really is going down, [...]

The Crazy Primaries: In 10 Minutes

If you missed all the weirdness, or even some of it, MSNBC has put together a wonderful 10-minute recap of the past six months of American politics … it’s really all you need to see to come to the same conclusion as Stan Marsh.
“Dude … this is fucked up right here.”

Typical American Racism

Hey! Check it out everybody! this comes from the file of Shit-I-Probably-Shouldn’t-Have-Needed-Maps-To-Realize…
First, a map of how Barack Obama stacks up against John McCain in current electoral college votes as of this week (Obama is blue, obviously):

Next, we have this map:

But to play the race card in this election would be just another example of Obama’s [...]

Finish. Them.

I have nothing else to say until both the Stanley Cup Finals and the Democratic Party nomination process are over.
Both results are so close I can taste them.
But they’re not over yet.
So this seemed right:

Election stories Vol. 884: In which I chortle as a muckraker gets smacked down by a veteran

So there’s this little kerfuffle see, because Barack Obama went out and claimed that his uncle helped to liberate Auschwitz, and then it turned out that it was another concentration camp (whoops! Now talking heads are calling it only “a work camp”, but see the end of this post for more on that), Buchenwald, that [...]

Obama walks the walk

It’s one thing — as any Hillary Clinton or John McCain supporter will loudly tell you — to throw around fancy words and moving rhetoric about ‘change’, ‘hope’ and ‘a new kind of politics’. Any asshole can do it, really, they’ll say. And they’re right.
What takes guts is backing up that talk when it isn’t [...]