A good blog is one that makes you stop and think for a few minutes. A great blog is one that causes you to stare off into space for a month or […]
Grow up and remember your youthful idealism, Democrats!
There appears to be two main narratives circulating about the cause of the widespread Democratic losses in the elections on November 2nd. The first is that the Democrats earned it because their […]
Election day blues
I don’t want to vote. That fairly well disgusts me, because i believe voting to be a responsibility and one that i’m both happy and proud to fulfill. Not that i take […]
Nota Bene #118: VOTE!
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.” Who said it?
The rent is too damned high
Politics sucks because politicians pretty much suck across the board. It’s not just that they all say the same thing in different words, or that when push comes to shove they really […]
Nota Bene #116: Long Live Elena Pavlichenko
“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” Who said it?
Redefining "pragmatism"
Ole Robert Gibbs sure let the cat out of the bag, didn’t he? Take that hippies, and by hippies i mean everyone to the left of and including Richard Milhous Nixon. Not […]
Nota Bene #114: Big Star
“The radio makes hideous sounds.” Who said it?
S&R asks: have you given up on voting yet?
The Scrogues – a fair percentage of them anyway – had a lively conversation recently. Though not a consensus, the “we’re fucked and it really doesn’t matter” contingent beat the (nonexistent) “the […]
Nota Bene #113: Seth's Near-Death
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.” Who said it?
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