Obama!

‘This is our moment:’ Obama’s historic victory – Yahoo! News My man. (Hmmm? Whaaat? You wanna comment, but you can’t? No, you can’t, because I turned the comments off. I really don’t care what anybody has to say about this. I’m fucking exhilarated and I don’t want to hear anybody else’s bullshit. Go look at […]

Next Time You Think About Bitching About Your Car Payments…

Sometimes I think my life sucks. Then I read about shit like this, and I remember that nothing in my life will ever suck this bad. KAMPALA, Uganda – Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It’s tiring, boring and dangerous. Stephen is 9 […]

Memorial Day

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, when we Americans give our remembrance of those Americans who’ve died fighting for this country. (Estimates of the numbers vary wildly, but let’s say about 1.8 million Americans total since the War of Independence.) In point of fact, most Americans mark Memorial Day as the psychological beginning of summer. Personally, I […]

A More Perfect Union

This is the finest speech I’ve ever heard given by a politician in my lifetime. I really want to believe that this speech will be remembered in the way that the Gettysburg Address is remembered, the way that Kennedy’s speeches are remembered. The way Martin Luther King’s dream is remembered. To hear a politician telling […]

"I hate the gooks" – John McCain – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

“I hate the gooks” – John McCain – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth I’m of two minds on this. On one hand, it’s a hideous thing for McCain to have said. It’s something that I really don’t want to ever hear from someone who’s trying to be president. On the other hand…from a […]

Fidel Castro retires after 49 years in power – Yahoo! News

Fidel Castro retires after 49 years in power – Yahoo! News You mark my words — this is the beginning of the end of trad communism in Cuba, and — I suspect — the beginning of a sort of renaissance. I’m convinced that once things settle a bit, they’re going to start bringing gambling back […]