Laura Flanders and GritTV

Everyone knows that I adore Rachel Maddow .. I also have a huge intellectual crush on Laura Flanders. Her latest project is GritTV. Check it out.



And yes, for those of you keeping score .. they are both lesbians ... sigh .. i can never catch a break.

Jim Webb or John Edwards ?

My short list for Obama's VP has two names on it ....
Jim Webb

and
John Edwards


I am torn because I think that we need good Democrats in the Senate but Webb would completely obliterate any BS talking point that McCain's military experience (which, we must remember was not exactly a stunningly successful career) somehow makes him uniquely qualified.

Webb for VP would also free up Edwards for either Attorney General or Secy of Health and Human Services (with a mandate to fix health care .. not health insurance).

Michael Medved ... dolt

Over at pharyngula, PZ Meyers has some thoughts on Michael Medved's latest bit of stupidity

As is usual for Medved, a dullard incapable of any kind of thought beyond the superficial, he doesn't think his thesis through. Wouldn't this imply that Moslem immigrants to Europe, with their risk-taking willingness to move to new environments, are their true hope for the future? That the old blue-bloods of this country are less fit than, say, the Nisei? And if the descendants of African slaves are not successful go-getters because their arrival was coerced, what about the immigrants who were fleeing religious persecution, or all the Americans who are descended from indentured servants? Are there no successful entrepreneurs in Europe or Asia or Africa? Should we give extra bonus points to the descendants of nomadic tribes of warriors, like the Germans? It's a very peculiarly narrow view of a kind of simplistic genetic determinism that ignores the complexities and the varieties of ways people got here to promote a ridiculous premise.

It never ceases to amaze me when a wingnut uses scientific style talk to justify some particularly odious point of view. I guess it is only fair, since they do they same thing with religious style talk as well.

Two Views ...

Which is your view?

Kevin James -- Cluelessness in action

In typical wingnut fashion, Kevin James talks out of his ass.

better than dropping the gas tax

over at fueleconomy.gov there are some handy hints that will save you more than the 18.4 cent gas tax ... and they are permanent ...

My favorite one, because it is easiest, is "dont drive so fast".

sigh .. are we so stupid that actually has to be explained to us? Apparently so.

sigh...

My Last Horse Race

sigh

I love horse racing .. but I just cannot justify it to myself anymore. This happens far too often