I feel really stupid

To think I've gone years and never known this: Aluminum Foil Locking Tabs.

McCain isn't the only one channeling Grampa Simpson

Bob Dole unloads on McClellan

There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. "No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique."

Tell us how you really feel Bob.

until it happens to you

The Washington Monthly

it's not as though McClellan didn't know that people were having their good name savaged by the White House. It's not even as though he had not willingly participated in that savaging. But he never seems to have thought that it could happen to him.

That's a hard thing, and part of me sympathizes. But another part thinks: you should figure out what's wrong with trashing someone and destroying his credibility when you do it to someone else. You shouldn't have to wait until it happens to you.

A Republican is a Democrat who hasn't been smeared by the GOP.

Happy "Suck On This" Day!

Atrios provides context

Waiting for Godot

Paul Kane of the Washington Post gives us some valuable insight into what undeclared superdelegates are doing.

Post Politics Hour - washingtonpost.com

Washington: Looking at the most recent Rasmussen daily polls, I see that Hillary manages a tie today against McCain, but Barack is down by five points to McCain. What piqued my interest was that while Hillary had a "highly unfavorable" rating of 32 percent (i.e., as I see it, people who never will vote for her) Barack was at 35 percent. On Jan. 30, as we entered primary season's main show, Barack's "highly unfavorables" were 20 percent and Clinton's were 35 percent. Is this something superdelegates may be watching?

Paul Kane: I've spent the past several months talking to as many super-delegates as any reporter in America, I'd guess, since I cover on a day-to-day basis about 280 of them here on Capitol Hill.

I hate saying this, because all the Clinton people are going to flip out and say, You're biased, you're biased, you're biased. So go ahead and flip out if you want, but the simple basic truth is that the super-delegates stopped paying attention to the Clinton-Obama race about a couple days after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

They've stopped paying attention to the primary, and instead they're focused on an Obama-McCain matchup in November. That's the basic, simple, definitive reality that has happened in this race. The "undecided" super-delegates at this moment are not going to "decide" any time soon, because to them the race is over, they're just waiting for Clinton to drop out.

I used to think that, once the primaries were over (June 3rd) there would be a flood of superdelegates to Obama. But Kane's answer suggests that many of them will continue to hold out in the hope that Clinton will finally "see the light" and just drop out. They don't want to be seen as forcing her out of the race.

The question is this: if Clinton doesn't go peacefully and threatens to disrupt the convention in Denver, will that force them to finally force her?

I've never been as concerned as some about the convention in chaos scenarios because I just don't believe that many people want that, even Clinton supporters. Thus, if it starts looking like it might go that way I expect to finally see that flood of endorsements. I even expect to see a few more Clinton supers switch sides. This report doesn't overly change my thinking on this. I just think it means it might take a couple more weeks than I previously thought.

"People won't vote for a black guy!"

To which I respond, "But they will vote for the white woman?"

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Impeach Bush

Daily Kos: Just sayin' that I was just sayin'...

And I said this the day Libby's sentence was commuted by Bush. If Bush used his pardon power to protect someone who could implicate Bush in a criminal act then the pardon is itself an act of obstruction and thus an impeachable offense.

The power of pardon is unimpeachable. The way it is used is not.

McBush vs. HillBama

I've seen this picture before:



But this one is even more disturbing:

No network for you!

Well, at least they'll be safe when the Cylons attack.

Invisible Friends

garfield minus garfield

Classic SF

The Last Question is a seminal short story by Isaac Asimov that informed my early perception of science fiction as a genre. Its the first SF story I can clearly remember reading and going, "Wow!" at the end.

It's a little dated, what with the presumption that BIG computers of the ENIAC/UNIVAC variety would be standard millions of years into the future. But if you just read "Internet" everywhere you see a reference to one of these "Analog Computers" it holds up just fine.

Google Bomb

Is Barack Obama Muslim?

Schrödinger’s LOLCAT

meow

Fighting old wars

Taking the Adversary Seriously: History and Condescension I highly recommend this essay by Rick Perlstein about his new book, Nixonland. While his book is apparently about how the condescending attitude of liberals towards conservatives allowed the right to ascend to its current position of power (I've just added it to my library reading queue), the essay itself is about how said condescension has virtually vanished from liberal discussions while the right still thinks it is as strong as ever. I agree with this sentiment:

... the fact that conservatives keep on trying to do so strikes me, as a liberal, with absolute delight. The left has changed and matured; and our adversaries on the right haven't even begun to reckon with that change. They still think we're all John Lindsay and Abbie Hoffman (who is, truth be told, probably treated as harshly in my pages as Richard Nixon). When I say Americans are still stuck in the categories of "Nixonland" even as the objective reality those categories seek to describe have largely slipped away, my most forceful possible argument is the prose of George Will. His "liberals are condescending" trope is the only way a conservative like him knows how to talk about liberals. Even as an entire new generation of American voters probably has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.

Hmm, sounds like condescension has switched sides, doesn't it?