I get email. Today the one from the McCain campaign dropped into my Blackberry with only one word of the subject line visible; "Emergency." While that pretty much summarizes the desperate posture of his campaign right now, I thought, incorrectly, that the email might be about the financial precipice where our nation struggles to find a foothold, but I should've know better. The sinking economy is last thing John McCain wants to discuss. The email, about the RNC's "emergency" voter... Read Full Story
Okay, here are a couple of post-debate must-reads and one must see. 1) E.J. Dionne writing for the Washington Post sums it up well in "Hockey Mom on Thin Ice." He says, in part: Palin has also brought out the very worst in McCain, forcing him to -- and I do not use this word lightly -- lie about her. In an interview broadcast Wednesday, National Public Radio's Steve Inskeep asked McCain if there would be "an occasion where you could imagine turning to Governor Palin for advice in a foreign... Read Full Story
Unless Tina Fey actually shows up at the debate tonight, don't expect the event to be "Thursday Night Live" as some pundits suggest. Sarah Palin will do just fine tonight. At this point, all she has to do is show up and not cuss, and she'll be crowned the winner. After all, the neo-cons have spent two weeks lowering expectations to the point that most Americans are turning on the evening news just to hear the latest Palin gaff. I mean, seriously, I watched the CBS Evening News last night for... Read Full Story
Look, this is a note to whomever is trying to hack into my cell phone and email accounts. Stop it. Stop it now. What you are doing is illegal-but we all know you don't care because you think you won't be caught, though you may be too stupid to understand that repeated attempts leave a nice cyber-trail. And frankly, what you'll find is just not all that interesting. Read Full Story
Poor Allen Freeman, his yard signs have gone missing, and he's stopped just short of calling out the National Guard (a group he was a part of when he did not leave U.S. soil during the Gulf War) in a effort to hold the evil robbers accountable. He's issued a press release (something he could not manage to do when the veterans were getting evicted) and called on the sheriff's departments in Bibb and Jones County to investigate. Hey, if the signs were taken over county lines, then maybe he... Read Full Story
I know that I should just be excited that we may avoid financial collapse, but I nearly cried when I read that a provision is attached to the senate version of the bail out bill requiring insurance companies to cover mental illness just as they cover other illnesses. Mental health advocates have been fighting for this for decades. Now, if we can just get everyone health insurance... Read Full Story
