Per aspera

From a WSJ/NBC poll:
More Americans express doubts about a candidate who served in Bush’s cabinet (59%) than one who is gay or lesbian (53%).
(via Shakes)

“That’ll do, pig.  That’ll do.”

From HotSoup.com, which makes HuffPo look like the Weather Underground:
Where else on the Internet do people of opposing views mix things up?
Wh-
Yeah, you guys are going to do great.

From some guy on blogspot:
There’s this attitude out there where one’s foreign policy abilities are judged by whether you supported the right wars, with people like Peter Beinart checking off their little lists. The foreign policy hawks see supporting wars as courageous acts, as if sending other peoples’ kids off to die and voting for […]

Via BoingBoing, some truth for God’s youth:
The Church of God is made up of seven separate eras, recorded in Revelation 2 and 3. Today we live in the Laodicean era (Rev. 3:14-21)—the seventh and last era of the Church. Last century was, for the most part, the time of the sixth era, Philadelphia.
Okay, that’s harsh. […]

It’s only one poll, but that’s a hell of a big number:
Mr. Bush’s job approval has slipped to 34 percent, one of the lowest levels of his presidency, posing a complication for the White House as it seeks to send him out on the road to rally base voters. Mr. Bush’s job approval rating has […]

Second-hand - a cabbie from Uganda describes what it was like:
“Bush is a dictator. Did I offend you?”
“No. What makes him a dictator?”
“You cannot joke about killing him. Hell even under Amin we danced and sang death songs at him. He had a hotel complex that he tortured people in. The difference between Bush and […]

Two years too late, but hey.  Wouldn’t have wanted to influence the election or anything.
Touch yourself with the bowtie of understanding.
(Via Atrios, who is also making you guess.)

John Rogers:
The anecdote … it was stirred by the latest from famous lawyer Alan Dershowitz, in which he argues that there is a scale of innocence, and anyone but the infirm and elderly who has not fled forthwith from Israel’s assualt on Lebanon is some sort of Hisbollah collaborator. Not may be. IS.
To wit, we […]

As most of you know, my hatred of de Beers is pure.
Diamond engagement rings are the result of a de Beers marketing campaign.  Diamonds are as expensive as they are because de Beers controls the supply.  And any diamond you buy is very likely awash in the blood of an entire continent.
I mention this now […]

As TPMmuckraker’s Justin Rood says, “So this is how Dems run an anti-corruption platform?”
Moran: Democratic Majority Means More Money for 8th District

If Democrats win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran said he would use his position in the majority to help funnel more funds to his Northern […]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
There is literally no good reason to ban marriage between people of the same sex.  As we know, however, there’s an election coming up, and the Republicans once again feel the inexplicable need to pander to their Nazi wing, and so have resurrected the disgusting campaign to write bigotry into […]

Scott Lemieux has a post about the panty-sniffing article about the Clintons’ sex life that the New York Times put on the front page Tuesday Sunday, above the fold.
To those of you who think this entry exists only so I can link to a post that makes reference to a Rilo Kiley song in its […]

“Even Baby Jesus accepted gifts, and I don’t believe it corrupted him.”
- North Carolina State Senator Drew Saunders (D)
Now THAT’S how you weasel yourself a higher donation-reporting limit!  God damn.  It’s your world, Sen. Saunders, we just live in it.
(via Pandagon)

This morning I read that the Senate has voted to make English the official language of the United States.  Apparently there’s suddenly such a crisis in Republican poll numbers immigration that we need an official language for the first time in our nation’s history.  James Inhofe, rock-stupid Senator from Oklahoma, was the sponsor, and the […]