As you know, this is an election of historical importance.  Not just on the national level, but all down the line.  On the California state level, there is one proposition which could get lost in the shuffle of the economic implosion.  I believe that every person should have the ability to marry the person they love. It is actually a fundamental ( Read more... )

What is the point of watching this kind of kabuki dance??

The questions will "be culled from a group of 100 to 150 uncommitted ( Read more... )

Now, only at the end, do we understand...

So we have McCain today getting his crowd riled up asking who Barack Obama is and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out "terrorist."

And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out "kill him", though it's not ( Read more... )

Did you read the nasty op-ed by William Kristol in today's NY TimesWhy the editors gave that intellectual featherweight valuable space in the paper I'll never know.  You have ( Read more... )

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I just read this headline:

The McCain camp has just sent word that the senator is suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to deal with the financial crisis.

McCain is also calling for a postponement of Friday night's debate and for Obama to suspend his campaign as well.

No ( Read more... )

Remember way back in 2000, when the republicans were pushing the hogwash that Bush would be the first "CEO President"?  Uh-huh, I guess he was snoozing through all of those business classes... or just skipped them, like he skipped the meetings on the Iraq war in the White House.

Not that we didn't know this already, but there was an article in the ( Read more... )

I went to go see my favorite local jazz band last week at Yoshis... Steve Lucky and Carmen Getit.  It has been quite awhile since I had the opportunity to see them, and let me say, they didn't disappoint.  They have added a few new members since the last time I saw them.  Their new tenor sax man is just blazing hot.  Man can that guy blow!  Of ( Read more... )