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Poetic Justice or Delicious Irony?

This is just too freaking funny to be missed: Tax Cuts Help Porn Industry It brings a whole new meaning to the words “Economic Stimulus Package” doesn’t it? Ruins my plan to invest it all in European companies and the Obama campaign, but it’s still kind of fun to imagine the heads of the Christianists […]

So many ways to enjoy the Onion!

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Pretty much sums up how I feel

Needs no explanation at all.

Civic Duty: be an Election Official at least once in your life!

This is a call to action. Every election needs trained election officials to be non-partisan for a day and help the polling places run smoothly. These officials are mostly volunteers (yes they get paid, but often the pay is nominal and trivial), they have only a little training from their county board of elections. Mostly […]

Congressional Primary June 10th

Reminder if you live in Virginia, go vote tomorrow! Here is my non-partisan, unbiased page (there is only one of those – normally I rant and/or rave a lot): https://blog.scottnolan.org/virginia-congressional-primary-june-10th/ The 8th, 10th, and 11th congressional districts all have bipartisan primary elections. In Virginia, you are not registered with any party, so any registered voter […]

Please help me figure this out

I am trying to think of ways to heal the rift between Clinton supporters and Obama supporters, because the most important thing is to defeat John McCain in November. I started this election (years ago) liking first General Wesley Clark, then Senator John Edwards once Clark endorsed Hillary Clinton. When John Edwards dropped out (just […]

Superdelegate Tuesday

A flood of super delegate endorsements for Barack Obama have come in today. According to both CBS and CNN, Obama’s total count is now 2106 (Update: now all the sources I track delegates with agree that Obama has over 2100 delegates, he will definitely cross the 2117 line tonight) which puts him close enough that […]

Why is the next President so critical?

The current members of the United States Supreme Court are: “Liberals” John Paul Stevens, born in 1920, is 88 years old; appointed by Gerald Ford (R). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, born in 1933, is 75 years old; appointed by Bill Clinton (D). David Hackett Souter, born in 1939, is 68 years old; appointed by George H.W. […]

When does compromise become appeasement?

It has been a long and contentious primary campaign season for the Democratic party in the United States. Bringing the nomination to a close, with some semblance of a unified party is perhaps a bit overdue; but I am very glad that traditionally late primary states have finally gotten a say in the process, and […]

1984 + 41 = 2025

According to the following trackers of Democratic nomination delegates, Barack Obama has reached 1984, which means that if he gets the expected 41 pledged from Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana; he’ll be at 2025. Of course, there is a strong possibility that the goalpost will have been moved by the rules committee meeting tomorrow, […]