X-Tra Rant

I picked up the November issue on newstands and scanned in the article. Check it out. It has one of the funniest things I’ve ever said in there: “Yes, but I doubt very much that Jay-Z can rap in iambic pentameter.” Read the article for context. If you’re interested in Drinking Liberally, check out www.drinkingliberally.org for a chapter near you.

Okay, so we all know by now that the new SCOTUS nominee Samuel “Scalito” Alito is rabidly conservative and rabidly anti-choice. But did you know he’s even against giving workers additional time off to cope with things such as childbirth? (Something even REHNQUIST, of all people, ruled in favor of!)

n 2000, Alito authored an opinion in which he ruled that the FMLA was an instance of unconstitutional congressional overreach. In particular, he said that the FMLA was unconstitutional because there was no evidence for the notion that women are disadvantaged in the workplace when they are not allowed to take family leave. Furthermore, he argued, the requirement that everyone be guaranteed 12 weeks of unpaid family leave was a disproportionately strong remedy

Ahhhhh yes, the Republican Party and their Supreme Court nominees: Working for the common man.

/sarcasm

Update: This jackass also thinks employers could fire AIDS patients for having aids, machine guns are a-okay and 10 year old girls don’t have the right not ot be strip searched under a warrant not pertaining to them, among other stuff. Fuck yeah! What a stand up guy!

(Dad, is this the sort of “compassionate conservative” you support with your voting for George W. Bush and all? Just wondering…)

A pumpkin made into a computer.

In honor of Halloween, I’m going to link back to a couple of my (true?) ghost stories I wrote about a few years ago. Ghost Story #1 and Ghost Story #2.

Then go on and read over at ESPN’ s Page 2 a couple of baseball ghost stories, “Seeking some baseball spirit”.

Just want to give a welcome to Indianapolis Monthly readers who came via the article in the November issue about Drinking Liberally: Indianapolis (scan coming as soon as it hits newsstands). If you want to join our mailing list, use that link. If you want to learn more about Drinking Liberally nationally, check out www.drinkingliberally.org.

…we hardly knew ye. via Kos

Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis “Scooter’ Libby Jr. was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case. Karl Rove, President Bush’s closest adviser, apparently escaped indictment Friday but remained under investigation, his legal status a looming political problem for the White House.

The indictments stem from a two-year investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald into whether Rove, Libby or any other administration officials knowingly revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame or lied about their involvement to investigators. The five-count indictment accuses Libby of lying about how and when he learned about CIA official Valerie Plane’s identity in 2003 and then told reporters about it. The information was classified. Any trial would shine a spotlight on the secret deliberations of Bush and his team as they built the case for war against Iraq.

Ahhh yes. Bringing respect and dignity back to the White House. One indicted advisor at a time.

Ma pika na Exxon CEO Lee Raymond. Me dwana nobata. Me ainti kanuta kabuk.

Chuba je chuzu muna ja.

(bonus cookies for the first person to tell me what language that is and to translate it)

Okay so Tom DeLay sez: “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics!!”
What is being criminalized is money laundering and campaign ethics violations.
THEREFORE: conservative politics = money laundering and campaign ethics violations.

Hey I didn’t say it! It was Tom DeLay! I just applied logic to his statement.

Oh wait. Forgot. Conservative politcs and logic are like antimatter and matter. My mistake.

Well Harriet Miers didn’t have a good week. How about you?

It’s pretty obvious by now that the right hated Miers because she never came out and screamed at the top of her lungs “ABORTION WILL SEND YOU TO HELL, BITCHES!” even though there was plenty of evidence that she is anti-choice. And the left hated her because she was an unqualified political crony appointment (who also happened to be a pretty heavy conservative on key issues).

Now the question - will Bush give us a real moderate to match the makeup of the 50/50 split in this country? Or will he give us an even CRAZIER conservative and say “hey I tried a moderate”? I am guessing the latter. People on the left will be too busy going into convulsions (rightly so) over the rabid right-wingerness of the new nominee to vocally challenge that Miers was not moderate to begin with, so people will accept that as fact. The Generally Accepted Truth will end up being: Bush nominated moderate, moderate failed, so he wenty back to pleasing his base (no matter how far from the Actual Real Truth that is).

I just hope the Dems have the balls to fight this one. We gave them their rabid neo-con in Roberts. He replaced another rabid conservative so it was a wash. But O’Connor was most defintiely a moderate and we need to fight for her to be replaced by a true moderate.

I’m somewhat interested in this Draft Prado movement to get Ed Prado on the bench. We coudl certainly do worse (*cough*janicerogersbrown*cough*)

A cartoon based on the video game Destroy All Humans? The game is insanely funny, so if that’s kept in the show it would work. But knowing Fox, they’ll screw it up somehow.