It is at times like this that I am so glad that I don’t watch TV. [Read more…]

Stephen Colbert points out how the oligarchy seems to be pulling out all stops in their effort to get Mitt Romney elected by threatening their employees with dire consequences if Barack Obama should win, and are even forcing them to take part in his campaign. And it is all legal, apparently. [Read more…]

Among other things, he points out that when it comes to foreign policy, there is only one country that matters, and that is Israel. [Read more…]

I have to say that he really nails Romney’s smarmy phoniness. [Read more…]

This is a bit late but Jon Stewart makes the roughly accurate point that during the debate what we saw was Mitt Romney adopting Barack Obama’s foreign policy, while Obama has adopted Bush’s policy. [Read more…]

Conservative circles are buzzing at the release of a new home video that was taken by Barack Obama’s father during his actual birth. Although old and grainy, the video clearly shows a white woman giving birth to a baby, with Obama’s mother’s name (Ann Dunham) on her chart, her photo, a calendar open to the month of August 1961, and a flag of Kenya. This proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Obama was born in Kenya. [Read more…]

I am not generally a fan of insult humor of the kind made famous by Don Rickles, which consists of rude put downs of the other person. I tend to prefer the more subtle forms. [Read more…]

For reasons that are not at all clear to me, Fox News seems to think that the story of the attack on the US consulate in Banghazi that resulted in the deaths of four diplomats is a huge story in this election and is pushing it relentlessly, though there is no evidence that people care that much about it. [Read more…]