Posted by Morbo Progressives have good reason to feel depressed about the outcome of the 2004 elections. President George W. Bush was reelected, and Republicans expanded their majorities in the House and Senate. So is it time to put your head in the oven or flee to Canada? Or should you flee to Canada and […]
Posted by Morbo A wire service story making the rounds concerns a man in Worchester, Mass., who stabbed two relatives during a Thanksgiving Day dispute over table manners. Morbo supports the right to use deadly force when appropriate. However, there is some dispute as to whether this was an appropriate case. With that thought in […]
Posted by Morbo It’s not every day that you hear a staffer from the Heritage Foundation on CNN demanding more government regulation of industry. Yet that is exactly what Rebecca Hagelin did recently. Appearing on Aaron Brown’s nightly newscast, Hagelin, no less than a vice president at Heritage, insisted that the Federal Communications Commission must […]
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 […]