The Iran-Contra scandal sounds pretty interesting. McCains role in the scandal also sounds pretty interesting. Another thing, it  seems that the only country that has benefitted from the invasion f Iraq is Iran as basically they now have a friendly Shia country on their border where they used to have a secular rival.  Maybe one of [...]

Pretty much the day after surgery I started watching season 2 of The Wire and I just finished season 4 last night.  Season 3 was probably the best, one of the funniest scenes had to be Snoop buying the nail gun. Season 3 was also good in that it showed the potential if you legalize or [...]

Ezra Klein looks at how we got Bushed and asks if the country has learned its lesson. My guess is “no”. Conservatives like Grover Norquist and other architects of Bush’s failed administration will never admit that conservitism is a failure. I think it was Rudy Guiliani who kept spouting off about the need for further [...]

For a while now people have been talking about rising food prices. I wonder how much of price increase can be attributed to stronger enforecment of US immigration laws. It seems like many jobs that involve food production also use a lot of immigrant labor. If Republicans ever get their fence I wonder what that [...]

Mattew Yglesisias takes on the electibility argument This part here makes a lot of sense: This business of Travis Childers winning an extremely Republican district on the heels of two other Democratic special election wins drives home how infuriating the idea of even having an extended “electability” argument about “who can win” is at this point. [...]

I got this via pandagon.net Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday. The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments [...]

The Clinton campaign has been mostly kept afloat by loans from the Clintons(Bill and Hillary) for quite some time now, she has loaned herself over $11 million. This money mostly came from Bill Clintons income as a paid speaker.  The question becomes how much of his speaking fees were paid by people who knew that [...]

It sort of feels like you’ve been kicked in the nuts, other than that it is not too bad

Rove made this observation here…I found a nice chart on Think Progress pertaining to this:

Now that HBO is in a coma, this is probably my favorite show: