This is a crucial time to contact your member of Congress regarding the Republican’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. You can do so by clicking HERE. Call them and tell them that you want them to vote against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Need some reasons why? How about because, despite their ridiculous name for the […]

I’ve learned this week that I am, not kidding, a “freedom-hating communist”. Why? Because I have no problem limiting Americans’ right to bear arms. I’m not talking about taking away Americans’ right to bear arms. I’m talking about limiting that right. Sort of along the lines of limiting the right to freedom of expression by making it a crime to […]

I’m guessing we’ll be hearing a lot more of this over the next two years: Back in Ohio, almost everybody says, ‘Oh, you’ve got to cut spending.’ But then they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you meant my spending.’“ I hope that attitude bites you on your small-minded little Tea Partier asses. I’m just sayin’…

I love making bread and buy whole wheat flour in 40 pound bags. Unless I get too busy, I make all the bread we eat in our house. Our favorite is whole wheat pita bread which is actually FUN to make! You roll out the loaves into what look like little mini pizza doughs. They go into the oven onto […]

It’s my wife’s birfday today so we’re off to hike with the doggerz and then down to Detroit to the art museum. But, first, an assortment of oddball, silly things I found on the innernetz this morning. Maybe I’ll start a new EclectaFeature with it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~From the “Life Imitates The Onion” Department: Pat Robertson: Snow Is God’s Way of Punishing […]

I generally won’t have anything at all to do with the Democratic Underground. I consider that site to be the liberal equivalent to the Free Republic in terms of its overall integrity. I’m not saying there isn’t anything good at DU — there is. Lots of good stuff. It’s just way overshadowed by too much really over the top rhetoric, […]

Much has been made about the epic fail of the Democrats with regard to their messaging. On health insurance reform and nearly every other issue you can name, they always get their asses handed to them by the Republicans. The Frank Luntz right-wing messaging factory has been a far superior operation and has been far more successful at framing the […]

He’s crushing all the leading Republican contenders for president in the McClatchy/Marist latest poll. Today Obama would beat Republican Mitt Romney by 51 to 38 percent, the poll showed. In a December McClatchy-Marist poll, he trailed the former Massachusetts governor by 46-44 percent. Obama would defeat Republican Mike Huckabee by a similar margin, 50-38 percent. In December, the president led […]

So, anyway. When did it become censorship to ask people to show a little tact, consideration and decorum? Since we started asking conservatives to stop being douchebags, I guess… I’m just sayin’…

A wrestling coach in Minnesota is on administrative leave for being an idiot. Marisa Vette, the [White Bear Lake High School] district’s director of communications, confirmed to Fox News Radio that [Jacob] Volkmann is on paid leave. She refused to say if his comments about President Obama sparked the investigation. “We have an employee who is on leave and the […]

WTF is it with Tea Partiers and their desire to solve every problem with violence? The latest effluent (membership req’d) from Judson Phillips of the Tea Party Nation is another example. In his essay, he rightly characterizes the Westboro Baptist Church and their leader, Fred Phelps, for the shitbags they are. Not content with that, however, he goes on with […]