econtrario
Where things will go your way...or they won't
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Blog warrior
Is this really the Democats?
Nuff said!“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize – an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride – unless of course you are the Republican Party.
“The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim,” Woodhouse said.
small victories
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
ambivalence
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"the biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
This is your rump republic party...ctd
“I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 that don’t have a set of beliefs"
Friday, April 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
the logic of tea baggin
Update: I guess the teabaggin movement has given new meaning to the word wingnut?
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
a funny thing happened on the way to the colosseum
An ancient version of Monty Python's dead parrot sketch sees a man buy a slave, who dies shortly afterwards. When he complains to the seller, he is told: "He didn't die when I owned him."
reason # 3,765 not to start a land war in Asia
Monday, April 6, 2009
you gotta believe in no rain
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Metstache time, You Gotta Believe Baby!
Monday, March 30, 2009
define worked?
Question of the day: What should I say the next time someone tells me the surge "worked"?
green mind part deux
"If I keep stewin’ ’bout how I feel
eventually you'll split, then I won’t have to deal
sounds like a plan."
Friday, March 27, 2009
opening day teaser
Join us in our season-long quest to get David Allen Wright to become the latest and greatest in a long line of mustachioed Mets. He will do it. We will make it so. ‘Cause the mustache has mojo. Ya gotta believe!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
atlas shat upon
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.