Posted by Morbo Everyone knows that teenagers should not have sex. Hell, plenty of adults probably should not have sex, but there you have it. Evolution has provided us with a powerful sex drive. Getting those genes out there and propagating the species is the name of the game. The problem is, we don’t want […]
Posted by Morbo Carpetbagger is taking a few days off for a well-deserved rest. I, Morbo, will post in his absence through Monday. The first thing I would like to say is that rumors that Carpetbagger is taking time off to get Botox injections are inaccurate and mean-spirited — although amusing. On to my first […]
The bad news is I’m taking a little break and won’t be posting again until Wednesday, Dec. 1. The good news, there’ll still be plenty of information here for your reading pleasure while I’m gone. I’ve arranged for a small team of guest bloggers to post in my absence, who will probably start sharing words […]
Picking up on a point Kevin Drum raised the other day, it’s hard not to notice that it’s only been a few weeks since the election, but Republicans have been awfully busy. As the LA Times’ Janet Hook noted yesterday, “Republicans may have picked up only a handful of seats in Congress on election day, […]
Digby noted yesterday an important observation from a recent New York Times article. In the Senate, the Democratic leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who lost his re-election bid, delivered a poignant farewell speech that brought him a standing ovation. “It’s had its challenges, its triumphs, its disappointments,” Mr. Daschle said of his 26-year career […]
Matt Yglesias had the same reaction I did when I heard Dan Rather was stepping down as CBS News’ top anchor. Dan Rather stepping down raises the pressing question — who watches network newscasts anymore anyways? Old people, I guess. I have the same assumption. My friend Chuck, however, had a terrific idea that would […]
There are 15 cabinet agencies and one Dem cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Care to guess whose opinions are rejected the most often by the White House? In the past four years, the White House has rejected nearly as many Department of Transportation regulations as those of all other departments combined, according to administration […]
One thing I’d like to see Dem groups do more of is develop front groups. That is, the left would probably benefit if we had more phony organizations with impressive sounding names that can pretend to exist and generate attention. The right does it with surprising efficiency. Consider, for example, this item from today’s Washington […]
The unwritten rules seemed pretty clear: if you want to be chairman of the DNC, you should rule out running for president in 2008. Tom Vilsack got the message loud and clear this week. Howard Dean, however, apparently isn’t concerned about the dilemma and seems to want it both ways. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean […]
To help get around the fact that the president has embraced “tax reform” without mentioning a single detail about his approach, Bush is prepared to move forward on creating a “bi-partisan commission” to study the issue. President Bush’s bipartisan commission on tax reform, whose members will be named early next year, is expected to work […]