Saturday Stuff

Nice to know that Willard Mitt Romney surrogate and former Repug U.S. House Rep Pete Hoekstra is as big of a dope as he ever was; naaah, the Repugs aren’t waging a war on women…not much they aren’t (here)…



…and Happy Titanic Day – watch out for stray icebergs.

Friday Stuff

I would like to thank the 59 Catholic leaders who have officially expressed their opposition to the latest budget scheme from Paul Ryan, noted here...



...and I realize it's probably a big step for me to assume that Ryan even has a soul, but assuming he does, he should try listening to this song.

Thursday Stuff

Looks like it’s time again for “the professional left” in the form of yours truly to take Number 44 to task over this; sooo…he quite rightly supported overturning DADT, but he apparently has no problem with LGBT discrimination in the workplace (here)? And that goes on top of the JOBS bill BS as noted here (the first sign of trouble is when sleazy weasel Eric Cantor showed up for the signing into law – he shouldn't even be in the same area code...I give you Matt Taibbi on this here).

Oh, and you know the recent strip search ruling by the Supreme Court? It was actually supported by the Obama DOJ (here).

There are some things that can be excused by right-wing looniness, but not this…



...meanwhile, looks like Willard Mitt and his GOP playmates continue to have self-inflicted “woman trouble” (here...more charming and related stuff here and here, and oh yeah, this too)…



…leading to this potentially game-changing development (wink)…


Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself

…but returning to the Obama stuff, I happened to hear this tune once more recently, and sadly, I think it still fits.

Tuesday Stuff

Yeah, somehow I’m not surprised that he now wants to run away from those stinking, ruinous tax cuts of his (here)...



...and adios, Little Ricky – have to admit that I never thought he’d get this far (a testimony to the lunacy of the Repugs as far as yours truly is concerned)...



Update 4/12/12: ROFLMAO...

...and concerning the all-but-named Repug presidential nominee, I give you this...



...and I thought this was a whompin’ little number, so here it is.

Sunday Stuff

RIP Mike Wallace – I don’t know if it’s completely accurate to say that he invented investigative TV journalism, but if he didn’t, he came pretty close.

There are probably hundreds or maybe thousands of clips out there of interviews he conducted (perhaps the most famous – or infamous, depending on your point of view – broadcasts he was responsible for had to do with Gen. Westmoreland and the Vietnam War, Jeffrey Wigand and the Brown and Williamson stuff, and Khomeni and the quote from Sadat rightly calling the Iranian thug a “lunatic”). For no particular reason, though, here is a clip from a 1964 interview with Malcolm X (as I heard this, I was struck a bit by the parallels – as I see them, anyway – between the “Negro community” and the “Occupy” movement).

I may feature other Wallace clips over the coming days, depending on what I can track down. As a country, we’re better for his efforts at “afflicting the comfortable,” as the saying goes (and Malcolm X was referring to former NYC Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, by the way)…



Update: And oh yeah, this was memorable also...



...and more stuff is noted here...



…and Happy Easter to everyone observing the holiday.