Sorry about the lack of posts, folks; we’re all swamped with real life. In the absence of actual content, I turn to the always illuminating Jay Smooth, who tackled that travesty of a town hall Michael Steele held at Howard University. Jay agrees with me: Steele is boring as hell. (And that when he attempts Read More
Colin Asher makes a point that I wish I had made first (damn oversleeping): Republican Representative Lynn Jenkins stepped in it twice over when she said the Grand Old Party was looking for a “Great White Hope” to stop President Obama’s political agenda. Not only did she put the lie to Republican claims that the Read More
Charlie Cook, of Cook Political Report fame, is very good at what he does, and when he says that the Democrats are looking at significant losses in next year’s midterm elections, it’s worth paying attention (via the Atlantic’s politics channel): “….confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely Read More
My Monday morning was bound to be something of a disappointment; after all, I was in an unusually good mood for most of this weekend and it’s pretty difficult to sustain that kind of high into the work week. Of course, I probably didn’t do myself any favors by starting my day with another poorly reasoned Read More
Because of technical difficulties and an unusually busy work day, this almost became Your Tuesday Random-Ass Roundup. Sorry I’m late again. Your PostBourgie-approved weekend reading material: First things first, Stacia, one of our co-bloggers, is writing a novel and posting a chapter a day at her personal blog. What is this space for, if not Read More
I tried my best to avoid the hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. It’s honestly hard to tell what the Senators really think because they’re so busy show-boating, and the only thing you’ll learn about Sotomayor is that she, like others before her, has the innate or practiced ability to be as bland as possible in Read More
My co-blogger Shani just twittered this comment on the confirmation hearings: The GOP’s roundabout way of saying that a woman of color has to work harder to be objective than a white male does is pissing me off. What pisses me off is this completely ahistorical sense on part of Republicans that the Supreme Court Read More
Hey, has anyone else seen that picture of President Obama ogling that 17-year-old girl’s ass at the G8 summit in Italy?: Of course you didn’t. Because there’s no such picture and he wasn’t doing that. Silly rabbits. And without any further ado, your reading material from the weekend: 1. On Friday, the Washington Post reportedthat Read More
Although politics in the Palmetto State are usually pretty odd, the past week has been especially strange for the residents of South Carolina. Last week, observers noticed that the state’s conservative governor, Republican Mark Sanford, had vanished from the halls of the state capital in Columbia. After several days of confused speculation, the governor’s aides Read More
