Posted on February 25, 2011, 4:07 pm, by cocktailhag, under
News Network.
In this video, which although it’s a bit long, I highly encourage watching in its entirety, my poor little heart leapt at the Schadenfreude. Posted without further comment… (h/t Salon.com, which reports that ALL their hateful sites are down now….)
When I finally stopped laughing, spraying booze all over, and dumbfoundedly slapping my forehead over Wisconsin Governor (!) Scott Walker’s fawning and delusional 20-minute kiss-up to an anonymous caller unconvincingly posing as uber-oligarch David Koch captured on tape, I got to thinking. What, in heaven’s name, could make a person so gloriously, blindly lacking in [...]
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Ronald Reagan,
Sarah Palin,
Scott Walker,
Sean Hannity,
Teabaggers,
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Posted on February 22, 2011, 2:22 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Day Job.
I went up to the penthouse today to do a couple of paint touch-ups, and it was looking so nice after the owners’ Herculean organizing efforts over the weekend that I thought I ought to take some pictures. (For before and during pictures, search “penthouse” in archives, and everything should come up…) This is the [...]
I’ll confess: My mother was a public school teacher, who, according to America’s right, was a greedy, bottom-feeding freeloader ripping off the taxpayer for her own commie-tainted self-aggrandizement, but oddly, I remember her differently. I remember her correcting stacks of papers each evening, sharing piles of Valentines, cards, and art projects from the children she [...]
Posted on February 19, 2011, 9:24 am, by dirigo, under
Baloney,
Burlesque Cronies,
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Day Job,
Holy Singers,
How Do You Feel?,
Just Desserts,
News Network,
Not in Front of the Servants,
Pants on Fire,
The Sweet Spot,
Thrown Shoes,
Unhinged,
WTF?.
CHNN’s managing editor has been clamoring, seemingly for weeks on end, for something – anything!!! – on Silvio Berlusconi, the 21st century’s first world-class, hair-plugged, near octogenarian diva, major domo buffo – and now! - criminal defendant, with a prostitution charge stuffed inside a grab bag of official abuse allegations in his capacity as Italian [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but I get a little offended at the sheer lameness of the lies that pour daily out of the GOP; it’s as though they don’t even care what the truth is anymore, since they rightly recognize that their “base” consists of, well, stupid people. Today, right-thinking Americans everywhere are aghast at [...]
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Teabaggers,
Unemployment,
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While it is widely understood that reality has a liberal bias, never is this simple fact so glaring as when some righty cabal gets busted cooking up an illegal dirty trick or two; the fact that they don’t accept reality, or must clumsily attempt to create it on the ground, always proves their undoing. So [...]
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Glenn Greenwald,
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Hunton and Williams,
Karl Rove,
LATimes,
Palantir,
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US Chamber of Commerce,
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Posted on February 13, 2011, 3:38 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Golden Oldies.
When I was Production Manager for Ballet Oregon back in the late 80′s, the company was in a sort of death spiral, which predictably ended in a merger of our company with the larger Pacific Ballet Theatre shortly after I left. To draw needed ticket revenue (and touring gigs in the hinterlands), struggling ballet companies [...]
Posted on February 10, 2011, 4:36 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Going Galt.
I never was able to work up the sort of affection for Rand Paul that I felt for his irascible but endearing dad, who bravely and repeatedly bucked his lockstep authoritarian party during the Bush years, but today I might have changed my mind. It seems that the curly-headed Medicare freeloader lately of Kentucky has [...]
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Sharron Angle,
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At long last, George Bush is receiving some comeuppance, albeit a rather mild one, for torture, the worst of his many crimes; as of now, not only will he perhaps die having never heard yodeling in its natural habitat, he’ll even continue to have to have his bankers come to him to do business. You [...]