Sillybean

Mostly reprinted from Twitter:

Watching CNN’s little undecided-voter meter, it’s clear that people know she’s pandering every time she says “hockey mom” or “Joe six-pack.”

Every time she says “nucular,” a Democrat gets his voter registration card.

We’ve landed in Bizarro-world:

Why Secretary Paulson asked for seven hundred billion dollars: “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.” Excuse me while I run screaming around the room here for a minute.

OK, I’m done. Next up: McCain is running [...]

The Washington Post compares the McCain and Obama tax plans.

Foreclosed = disenfranchised in Michigan.

Alone of all Alaskan cities, Wasilla — while Palin was mayor — charged rape victims for their exams. The rape kits cost between $300 and $1200. The state legislature had to pass a law to end the practice. Charming.

Palin’s book-banning efforts. “Palin [...]

We were in the mood for hamburgers tonight, so we went to a little joint where they have half a dozen booths ranged around a long bar. It’s built-in entertainment: you, the sit-down diner, get to listen to the conversations of the beer-and-wings diners.

Our bar guys tonight were most excellent entertainment, being loud, ignorant, and [...]

Just got home about 20 minutes ago. I have to say, I really can’t recommend spending eight hours in an elementary school gym with your fellow citizens, no matter how similar your politics might be. If the Texas Democratic Women hadn’t been funding a scholarship by selling bottled water, and if a local lawyer hadn’t [...]

Well, that was interesting. I was one of the people who stayed after signing in — basically, we were all just curious, and had no idea what was going on. Things got started late because the officials stuck their heads outside and realized the crowd assembled was too large for the room they’d set aside, [...]

Because I could not say it better than he did, I’ll defer to Keith Olbermann:

If you prefer text to video, here’s the transcription provided by the YouTube uploader:

“I didn’t vote for him,” an American once said, “But he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.” That—on this eve of the 4th of July—is [...]

I love Digg. Having discovered their collective power earlier this week with the whole AACS thing, today they invented an impeachment poll where one didn’t exist — namely, in Nancy Pelosi’s office. While I feel really sorry for the poor people answering this phone line, I’m tickled that Digg users have figured out how to [...]

I’m 3/4 of the way through the novel. My brain is leaking out my ears.

I am not going to Chicago this weekend as originally planned. (Sad glyph.)

SFWA politics are even nuttier than Texas politics. I mean, damn, people. This election is reminding me of that West Wing episode when the DNC went nuts and had [...]

The House, the Senate, AND a sensible person in charge at the Pentagon? Thank GOD. Five-minute end zone dance; then we get to work on fixing this bleeding, broken mess of a country.

All the Katrina links are in the sideblog. I’m too angry to write. I might have to cancel all my fall plans, because there’s a strong possibility that I’m going to be camped out on the steps of the White House and/or FEMA headquarters, wherever that is, SCREAMING MY FOOL HEAD OFF.

A must-see video clip: Bill Maher, Robin Williams, Leslie Stahl, and Joe Biden riff on Jeff Gannon. Absolutely hilarious.

Hang on a sec. Is Michael Powell — indency fines, media outlet consolidation, broadcast flags, yes, that Michael Powell — seriously trying to take credit for the consumer electronics boom?

Powell cited the growing popularity of cell phones, digital television, and digital music players as evidence of the technological advances during his tenure.

“Evidence of our success [...]

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At least there’s a little bit of good news.

first:

An utter failure in domestic policy, an antagonizer of nations abroad, and a man whose presidential actions show very little but contempt for the wide majority of Americans whom he was selected to lead. George W. Bush should never have been president at all. So not only is he not worth voting for, he is [...]