Last night at the Democratic debate, the crowd made its displeasure very clear when Clinton refused to let the Obama plagiarism canard go, quipping “it’s change you can Xerox”. Then at the end of the debate, she very powerfully emphasized that she was “absolutely honored” to be on the stage with Obama. I believe that …

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The Senate was created to protect slavery. Over the last few months, I have heard this assertion independently from people I consider knowledgeable progressives. It isn’t surprising that progressives aren’t happy with the Senate right now. There are, indeed, aspects of how the Senate is constituted and how it operates that currently act to impede …

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In a recent speech, John St. McCain said the following: The war in Iraq was part of the fight against Islamic extremism, the greatest evil, probably, that this nation has ever faced. As Earth-Bound Misfit rightly points out, there may be a few other serious fucking candidates for “greatest evil, probably, that this nation has …

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Driftglass had quite a bit to say yesterday about right-wing screeching over telecom immunity for felonious and unconstitutional spying on American citizens. As usual, he nails the motherfucker, and his entire post is well worth a read. I want to comment, however, on one of his remarks in particular: The remnants on the leadership caste …

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From the AP just now: Top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism Monday, the latest effort by her campaign to undermine the Illinois senator’s credibility. Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, during a conference call with reporters, pointed to a speech Obama delivered at a Democratic Party dinner in Wisconsin …

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Hanging around in Kent. Yeah, the guitar solo is fucking boring.

George Bush to Congress: If you don’t become complicit with me in violating the 4th Amemndment, there is going to be a double-9/11, American citizens are going to DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!!!!! at the hands of the Islamofascist hordes, and it’ll all be all your fault. It’s nice to see that finally the vast majority of …

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Miek and Mike in the Morning, a very popular daily syndicated sports talk show on the ESPN Radio network, had a lot to say this morning about the Congressional hearing before which superstar baseball pitcher and accused user of performance enhancing drugs Roger Clemens and former trainer and accuser Brian McNamee appeared yesterday. Let’s just …

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Apparently, Sports Illustrated has decided to create a Web site devoted to their “swimsuit” issue. According to Salon’s Machinist, this site will host every photograph from the print magazine, as well as plenty of additional “content”, including videos. The swimsuit models are extreme outliers in terms of body composition, shape, and size, and the entire …

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All I’m hearing in the shitstream media about the Democratic nomination is the goddamn motherfucking Superdelegates. And what’s worse is that even Democrats are acting like naive stupid idiots and propagating ideas that are favorable to the right-wing. Jesus H Christ! Enough already!