Not My Mother’s Blog

Can we talk about the things that most “liberals” don’t understand? Here’s the thing. I keep listening to the cable news and the so-called mainstream media and – okay, listening isn’t quite the right word. My living room is the scene of some pretty loud and vocal one-way debates that consist of me yelling at [...]

Juice Analytics has a very cool little gizmo going on – a visual tree map that lets you vote on what you think of different parts of the stimulus plan. Keep in mind that the numbers in the bill represent the Senate bill as it existed on January 15 and there have been a LOT [...]

I’m sitting here listening to the tide turning and shaking my head in disgust – not at our President, but at the total ridiculousness of the mainstream and cable news media. We’re hearing all over the place how the president’s approval ratings are taking a huge hit, the whole country is disappointed, the president is [...]

Mika’s response to the statement that the Obama team considers “welfare programs” like increased food stamps, extended unemployment benefits and increased aid to states for Medicaid to be stimulative: a startled laugh and “You’ve got to be kidding!”
Well, no, sweetheart, we’re not kidding. And I seriously long for your father to give you one of [...]

So a search for Dunkin Donuts coffee references on the web led me to a blog post that posited an old conservative talking point: building the economy from the bottom up doesn’t work. To quote Political Pistachio:
Provide money to the poorest, I suppose, so that they can spend the money, and then as they buy [...]

Obama made Rush Windblow a happy camper last week when he told Republicans that “you can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and expect to get things done”. I’m dying over how many different ways that statement can be taken out of context – my favorite so far is Limbaugh’s contention that Obama is “more afraid [...]

Happy New Year!
We wake up this morning in the Year of the Ox, under the leadership of the world’s current most famous Ox – Barack Obama. Born in August 1961, Obama is an Ox by birth. While his Western astrological sign is Leo, Obama’s designation as an Ox is most akin to a Capricorn in [...]

In Common
by chameleon
I still remember how she told me how
she pissed her pants in fear
“thirty-fuckin-four years old
wettin my pants because
he was the law and he was
lookin at me and he was”
mad as the boy who held
a knife at my throat because
the only white women on these streets
are ho’s, mama,
and so I knew how the heat
and [...]

Obama- ‘Hope over fear‘

I can’t help shaking my head at all the pundits declaring that Obama didn’t deliver any quotable quotes in his inaugural speech. If anything, his speech contains an embarrassment of quotable riches. Just listen to the first minute and a half of Obama’s inaugural speech above. Just listen.
We have chosen hope over [...]

This morning on MSNBC, Savannah Guthrie announced the reason that the Obama camp has been so reticent with WWD and other top fashion industry mags about what Michelle is wearing to the Inauguration. Get this:
Michelle Obama has not decided what she’s wearing for the Inauguration yet.
That’s right. The Inauguration is less than 24 hours [...]

I’m still blinking at that statement. Bush’s final press conference, he’s asked about the negative view that others have of the United States. He says that he disagrees with the assessment that our country is viewed negatively, that “most people respect America” and that we are viewed as “strong, compassionate people”. And I’m still blinking. [...]