SNL is reviving again, and I am grateful. These two bits made my whole week. Really!?! – Seth Myers and Amy Poehler This new segment is fantastic. I was laughing so hard that I almost fell off the couch. Worth staying up to watch. Hardball – Amy Poehler (as Hillary Clinton) and Darryl Hammond (as Chris Matthews) This was brilliant. I like the court jester approach, and there are some grains of truth in the exaggerations here. However, as with…
Some recommended reading – do your homework. Saving the World By Stopping the Pentagon’s Programs By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet All that work against nuclear proliferation – gone, gone, gone. Another way we make the world a more dangerous place. Then there is “Complex 2030,” a proposal to consolidate and update the entire nuclear complex, including the opening of a new plutonium “pit” facility capable of producing 125 new bombs a year. Estimated price tag: $150 billion over 25 years. The…
I have always loved the idea of synchronicity. I heard this song for the first time tonight as I contemplated whether to watch the State of the Union Address: Prodigal son by Jan Gloeckner If you find you keep slipping on your tongue well I got some suggestions to offer you pick one you can tie it round your neck, like a prodigal son but you won’t win the game cause it’s already won could of helped a man who…
Please join more than 30 leading non-partisan Election Integrity organizations who have signed the following letter demanding that Congress enact legislation requiring a paper ballot for every vote cast. Problems throughout the 2006 primary and general elections have made it clear that only a paper ballot — not a “paper trail”, nor a “paper record” — will begin to help re-establish confidence in our tattered electoral system.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day My son came home from school and told me that he was so grateful for Martin Luther King Jr. “Mommy, did you know that if he didn’t tell people to be nice to each other, that I wouldn’t have any black kids at my school? I’d only be with other white kids.” Hmmm. I like his “gratefulness,” I think, although I’ve never known him to use that word before. I like that he instinctively…
Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline It covers 8/1/90 through 6/21/03, and you can use the year-slider on the left or else generate pages based on tags. Have fun. I did.