Archive for October, 2008

The Good Times are Killing Me!

Fresh off the heels of the announcement that the Obama campaign had raised $150,000,000 flippin’ dollars in September, Colin Powell goes on Meet The Press and endorses Obama! I don’t know how much more good news I can take!
Colin, you know that time you said Saddam Hussein tried to obtain uranium from Niger in your [...]

$150,000,000

The Obama campaign has just announced that they’ve raised a record $150 million dollars in September. That’s million, with an M.
It was not immediately clear how much of that $150 million dollars was raised through people replacing their Obama yard signs that McCain supporters stole in an attempt to “sabotage” the Obama campaign.

I hope Alec Baldwin washes his hands… [Updated]

I just caught the Sarah Palin’s cameo on SNL. Pretty lame. We’ll have video in the morning, but I don’t think I’m spoiling anything when I say that there were several times when Alec Baldwin could have easily just reached over and snapped her neck like a chicken mess up her hair. As fine of [...]

Time for a PSA

We know things have gotten ugly in this campaign, and they are bound to get uglier as November 4th approaches. Some of this ugliness has been manufactured by the McCain campaign with their innuendo, fear-mongering, and attack ads; some of it is ugliness that has long existed in this country, and that is being brought [...]

Daily briefs, weekend edition.

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS. It’s cold out! We love it. Other things we love? Colin Powell and a possible Obama endorsement tomorrow. Obama outspending McCain dramatically because of all that money I gave him. This wonk-ish look at the rural-urban divide, population density and voting. This pumpkin curry I used to eat, drink and practically bathe [...]

On Bill Ayers and facism and the klan.

McCain’s New Campaign Strategy Bears Fruit.

From McClatchy:
[ACORN Spokesman] Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she “is going to have her life ended.”
A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of “We know you get off work [...]

Who IS Barack Obama?

A former fetus. A MUSLIM former fetus.

Friday!

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: What would a real Democratic massacre actually look like? This rundown at Daily Kos is fantastic, listing the down-ticket races, ballot initiatives, margin of Obama victory and the circumstances that would amount to an utter and absolute humiliation of the Republicans on Election Day. With no money and not much time left [...]

Recession of 2008, bad for sex work?

My absolute favorite writer for The Nation, JoAnn Wypijewski, has an interesting piece out today that looks at sex workers as a bellwether for the struggling economy. Like beauticians or personal trainers, she writes, sex work is a profession where the depths of recession can be measured in real time. 
In hard times a client might [...]