During his speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week, President Obama said this: Now is the time to invest in America. Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. I know that many of you have told me that you are waiting for demand to rise before you get off the sidelines and expand, […]

If you haven’t seen the new ad Chrysler ran during the Superbowl last night, you should really have a look: VOICE OVER: I got a question for ya. What does this city know about luxury, huh? What does a town that’s been to Hell and back know about the finer things in life? Well I’ll tell ya: More than most. […]

Just sitting here watching the Fox interview with President Obama during the Superbowl pregame. I’ve never seen such an unprofessional, disrespectful interview of any President ever. He constantly cut-off the President. He constantly interjected his own opinions. Un-effing-believable. President Obama was poised and answered O’Reilly’s questions intelligently and thoughtfully. I don’t know how he was able to do it given […]

I can’t even begin to express how absolutely full of awesome this is. There’s an online comic I read regularly called Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal that’s drawn by Zach Weiner. It’s a rather bizarro comic, lots of science fictiony type stuff, generally hysterical. Not long ago, he ran this comic: The odious homophobic, anti-gay, anti-same sex marriage group, National Organization […]

I just wanted to thank everyone again for their support that earned me the Daily Kos “Diarist of the Year” award. For those that missed the show, here’s a rare shot of me receiving my award: Hee, hee! I’m just sayin’…

If there’s one government program folks on both the left and the right love to hate it’s the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP). Started under George W. Bush and continued under Barack Obama, it seems everyone from the farthest-right tea party to farthest-left liberals hate it. It’s about to turn a profit. The program under the $700-billion financial bailout package […]

Um … me. Seriously, I have no idea how this happened but I actually won Diarist of the Year at Daily Kos (basically “Blogger of the Year” for non-Kossacks. Results HERE.) I would like to thank all of you who took the time to vote for me. I’m sitting here enjoying a celebratory martini letting this soak in. Wow. P.S. […]

First, a hat tip to my dear friend and fellow member of the Proud Pragmati, Blackwaterdog. If you haven’t checked out her blog, The only adult in the room, you should. She’s brilliant and is doing the job of keeping people informed about the successes of the Obama administration better than anyone else in the blogosphere. To say that the […]

You might think the GOP hates the poor and the elderly and, really, all of those that rely on entitlement payments of one sort or another. But I’ll bet you didn’t know how much they hate them. They hate them enough to introduce a bill that prioritizes paying off our debt to China over their monthly checks. That’s right. Congressman […]

I saw this item this morning over at the CQ Blog and thought I would pass it on. TIPS FOR PRESERVING SMARTPHONE BATTERY LIFE Plug in your smartphone whenever you can. It is OK, even desirable, to “top off” today’s lithium ion batteries, so taking advantage of outlets or a car charger is a good idea. Talk, don’t e-mail. Cellular […]

Funniest animated blog about dogs EVAH: Hyperbole and a half’s “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving” Hat tip to my daughter and sister-in-law, both of whom sent me this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Speaking of dogs, a woman in England returned her recently-rescued Jack Russell terrier to the animal shelter where she had gotten it. Why? Because it clashed with her curtains. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A […]