Archive for September, 2008

Triumph of the Hope

Jeremiah Wright, meet your competition.
Music teacher Kathy Sawada and her army of doe-eyed grade schoolers are so fucking earnest that they automatically top anything that the good reverend could dish out. While the idea of a 9 year old singing a song she wrote for Obama is kinda cute, the Leni Riefenstahl style production value [...]

Mooselini.

Ha ha that’s my favorite nickname for Sarah Palin and I thought it might get your attention. Anyway If you need a good listen at work this week I produce a radio show, RadioNation with Laura Flanders, and I think this is a strong week. We have two reporters who just got back from Alaska [...]

Just thinking out loud here …

But is another stock market crash, followed by civic unrest and an October of looting or rioting etc. the 2008 Republican version of an “October Surprise?” It’s a terrorist attack or a bin Laden video times 20. I don’t even understand the bailout vote well enough to know which party torpedoed the thing, but it [...]

Rumor has it …

… and that’s what we traffic in, rumors as of 1:45 that the bailout isn’t going to pass congress which is crazy? Or GOOD? Or bad maybe that’s bad? If you know please explain to me the entire economy in the comments. I think the bailout not passing is bad, even though it’s a bad [...]

Monday: Making your travel plans?

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: It was a slow Sunday for us. Pinko drank too much at that BAM event took the day off. The news and the election did not. The quick rundown: Congressional leaders reached a deal on the bailout but now it may not have enough Democratic votes to pass. Here’s a compelling piece on the [...]

Embracing ageism! Why we have retirement.

They’re wrinkly, adorable, wise, and just a little bit racist. They’re old people. They tell the world’s greatest bedtime stories. They know how to cook everything from memory. They know how to fix any car built before 1975. They all lived in this crazy hometown that only had uphill hills. But they don’t [...]

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go phillies! shhh.

A few thoughts on that debate.

When I lived in Philadelphia I lived at 20th and Spruce, two blocks from the worst bar in the world, an Irish Pub called, creatively, Irish Pub. It was as close to a suburban experience as you could get in a major urban area; the sort of place you would go if you had to [...]

Why I hate New York sometimes.

Saturday Pinko Daily Briefs

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS. I played Kate’s fabulous debate drinking game last night and there was a clear winner: Makers Mark, which defeated me somewhere near 10:05. At this point I’ve given up guessing who wins these debates; last night I groaned when McCain said P.O.W. and was just certain that he’d won the debate hands [...]