Cross-posted at Daily Kos. I watched the first installment of the gloriously filmed and narrated Ken Burns series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” last night. As a major supporter of the National Parks system, I have been eagerly awaiting this since I first learned of it. NOTE: Here’s a link to last night’s episode HERE. From taking my four-year […]

This was first posted at an earlier version of this blog in 2007. Today, we’re going to process 100 jalapenos into these remarkably awesome stuffed peppers so I thought that I’d repost it. Enjoy. At long last, I’m finally getting this recipe up. We do HUGE amounts of these at once but the recipe is for 15-20. The photos are […]

The Lansing State Journal reported yesterday that the ACORN office in Lansing, Michigan is closing its doors after receiving a threatening phone call (H/T Eric B. at Michigan Liberal): An angry voice mail laced with a racial epithet was the final straw for Carrie Guzman. An anonymous caller to the local Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, […]

Leonard Pitts, Jr. has a most excellent opinion piece in today’s Detroit Free Press in which he calls upon so-called Christians like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy and Bill O’Reilly to live up to their Christian beliefs and stop telling lies. Even better, they put it on page two, not buried on the Opinion page. Referring to Beck claiming […]

The AP is reporting this week that there is a massive, nationwide shortage of ammunition for guns. Bullet-makers can’t keep up. And why is this? The answer, of course, is obvious: Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress […]

I’m not very reactionary or easily worried. In fact, the whole H1N1 swine flu thing, to me, has been sort of a ho-hum deal. I really haven’t expected much to come of it. Something along the lines of the Y2K bug or something, I suppose. Then the emails started to arrive this week. Now I’m starting to get a leeeeetle […]

Will Ferrell and friends have a snarky take on the health care debate, courtesy of MoveOn.org: Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell I’m just sayin’…

With 564 amendments (maybe more, the number seems to change hourly) to the health care reform bill put out by Max Baucus’ Senate Finance committee, you just know there’s gonna be some serious pork hidden in their somewhere. That’s how Congress operates, after all. And, yes there are some particularly ridiculous amendments as outlined by mcjoan three days ago. But […]

This past weekend, Talking Points memo reported that Louisiana governor Bobby “Howdy Doody” Jindal’s took action to cut all state funding to ACORN in his state. His executive order effectively cuts off imaginary funds as the Times-Picayune noted. According to the state’s Division of Administration, no state agencies have existing contracts with ACORN. They also reported that Tim Pawlenty, governor […]

I used to defend Kwame Kilpatrick when the racist white people I work with in Howell derided him as “the Hip Hop Mayor”. I told them that maybe Kilpatrick’s fresh approach was just what Detroit needed after years of corruption and inept governance. Then the text message scandal broke. And we found out he spent an inordinate amount of money […]

The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire reports that organizers of last weekend’s Million Teabagger March (oops, 75K Teabagger March, sorry) are upset about the level of service offered by the (government-run) DC Metro transit system. As blogger Brody Mullins puts it: seriously. Rep. Kevin Brady called for a government investigation into whether the government-run subway system adequately prepared for this […]