Leftpedal

Someone really needs to make me stop reading my rss feeds of horrible right wing and/or libertarian websites. I just can’t *not* read them if there are updates, but man, they’re really getting to me these days. They were relatively funny back during election season, but now, the inanity is just too much for me to handle. Also: listserves. Like “Expose Obama” and RedState warriors or whatever. I need some sort of filter for this stuff. I don’t want to unsub, cause I do want to know what stupid tricks are out there sometimes; I just don’t want any more stupid Chuck Norris manifestoes anymore. Not right now.

just to note: I hate this word.

“What political stories aren’t being covered because of newsroom cuts?” (via Poynter, LA Times)

But maybe not for much longer?

“Tongue jut. Rolling eyes. Pshaw! Ugh. Ropadope. Tongue jut! LOL!” Wait, huh? This is our political discourse?

Don’t believe the lies. Obama will lower your taxes. Unless you make over, say, $500,000. Then you’ll get taxed. Suckers. But if I made over $500,000, well, I think there’d be a little to go around. http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. Will publish at least until 2010. Cool. http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/ [via NYT ]>

glbropqxitan!

from all this weirdly serious posturing and talk of NUCLEAR war over Poland and South Ossettia & Georgia. WTF? I guess it’s enough to make me say something on this damned website 2 days in a row. Who are these people?

Why doesn’t the President of Georgia go on Charlie Rose instead of Larry King? Oh, right, there’d be hard questions. I just don’t want a provocation or thought of nuclear war with Russia… who, by the way, I thought was an ally, not an “ally.”

The US can send humanitarian aid to Georgia (the one on the other side of the world, natch) in a matter of a few days and risking even greater tensions with Russia, but we couldn’t get aid to Louisiana and Mississippi for weeks after Katrina.

Put this on during the nightly “news hour” on network tv. Talking. About real stuff. Normal talking. Informed normal talking.