Two things she got wrong

Oh, Taylor. His [ElBaradei] dropping in from outside Egypt to now be standing at the center of the protests brings back one parallel to the Shah of Iran back in ‘79 coming in to save the day, which didn’t end well at all. Seriously? You got this fact wrong? Do I really have to point out [...]

Read Full Post »

Sunday Morning Video: “But, the psychic knew things no one else could know!”

Derren Brown demonstrates to people from America, to the UK, to Italy, just how a psychic reading actually works. From Wikipedia: Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, illusionists, and con artists to determine or express details about another person, often in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject [...]

Read Full Post »

Some thoughts on Egypt

What a difference placement of a paragraph makes. The New York Times describes how the security police have retreated, leaving Egyptians vulnerable to looters and thugs. By Saturday night, informal brigades of mostly young men armed with bats, kitchen knives and other makeshift weapons had taken control, setting up checkpoints around the city. Some speculated [...]

Read Full Post »

I wanna be her big sister, even though she’s already got one

Long before My Life on the D-List I was a Kathy Griffin fan. Since that show debuted, I’m a devotee.  And with Anderson Cooper playing her straight man every New Year’s Eve, CNN is the place we go to watch the ball drop.  She is hilarious and I adore her. So, you will understand my glee when I [...]

Read Full Post »

Look over there! Sarah Palin!

To the commenter who posted his very first comment ever at this site, though I’ve seen his comments elsewhere in the Nevada blogosphere: By now you’ve probably noticed that I did not release your comment from moderation. In fact, I sent it straight to the dustbin. Though I assume you were attempting a tongue-in-cheek comment on this [...]

Read Full Post »

Always.

Gaius: The Third Degree, CIA black holes, and the presidential absolutism inherent in the notion that denial of habeas corpus is or ought to be a power of the Chief Executive are all of a piece. They are the statism of American conservatives. The Marxist-Leninists told everyone to trust them with unchecked, unprecedented, absolute power [...]

Read Full Post »

Can we quit saying they “fell from the sky” now?

Nope, not a sign of the apocalypse. Not that there was any real mystery about this whole thing (conspiracy mongers notwithstanding). The mass deaths of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Arkansas was caused by “blunt force trauma,” according to a new report by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Laboratory tests were conducted on 13 of [...]

Read Full Post »

Mugging America

Bob Herbert: When you see surveillance videos of some creep mugging an elderly person in an elevator or apartment lobby, the universal reaction is outrage. But when the fat cats and the ideologues want to hack away at the lifeline of Social Security, they are treated somehow as respectable, even enlightened members of the society. [...]

Read Full Post »

Much to say . . .

But not enough time to gather my thoughts which are swirling around the State of the Union and other topics. My initial reaction to Tuesday night’s State of the Union was that it sounded like so much of the the corporate cheerleading I’ve been hearing for a couple of years now. “We’ve turned the corner.” [...]

Read Full Post »

Rahm Emanuel thrown off Chicago mayoral ballot

Especially sweet knowing what his boss did to ride unopposed into his first elective office. As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers. The move denied each of them, including [...]

Read Full Post »