paperhaus November 5th, 2008
Every state where I have lived for a year or more — Florida, Rhode Island, Virginia, New Hampshire, California, New York and Pennsylvania — helped to make Barack Obama President. I couldn’t be happier if I’d voted in each in and every one.
paperhaus October 22nd, 2008
Which is seems a little cheap when you hear that wardrobe was $150,000.
I bet Tina Fey’s is cheaper.
paperhaus November 19th, 2006
Two annoyed diplomats at the Asian economic summit (unnamed in the NY Times caption) and …
George Bush: I’m not wearing any underwear.
Vladimir Putin: [silently] Why did I ever learn English?
Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile: My arms! I can’t move my arms!
Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada: Hold still — George isn’t wearing any underwear. Again.
paperhaus November 7th, 2006
The Tribune company continues its hellbent destruction of the L.A. Times, driving out respected editor Dean Baquet. More departures and cuts are sure to follow.
In much better dumping news, Britney finally kicks K-Fed to the curb, divorce papers and all.
Welcome to Pennsylvania, Max. We’re now Santorum-free.
A long-lost Silverblatt brother surfaces at the Bat Segundo show with guest Scott Smith.
At Largehearted Boy, LBC nominee Sidney Thompson provides a soundtrack for his book Sideshow.
James Ellroy pulls his Alpha Author Act for the NY Times: “I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived.” Tell ya, I’ve gotta love it. But when did he get skinny?
Speaking of crime: actress Adrienne Shelly’s supicious death wasn’t suicide; it was murder.
Is it possible that Virginia voters will send macaca-man to the Senate? Currently he is ahead by fewer than 5,000 votes. 24,000 voted for the Green candidate. Will we liberals never learn?
paperhaus November 7th, 2006
10:00pm concession speech. Rick Santorum: “Karen and I and the kids just want to thank God.”
As do those of us who voted against you, Rick. We also thank the voters of Pennsylvania. And Darwin, too.
paperhaus November 7th, 2006
This election day my thoughts have turned to Hunter S. Thompson, whose Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is both smart and hilarious, and never matched up to the mumbling, addled Thompson I remembered. So of course I turned to YouTube.
I think the BBC captured the true Hunter S. Thompson in this interview (I’m guessing 1976, since they mention Carter in comparison to Nixon). It begins with him saying Richard Nixon stands for the dark side of the American dream (poetic, but he’d written it before), shows him smoking pot and, behind the slate between takes, doing a line of coke off his hand, all the while being two steps ahead of the interviewer. When he knocks his whiskey over into the lawn, he cracks a joke about rolling his ice in chlorophyll, and the poor reporter can’t see he’s kidding. Stay with it until the end, to hear the cogent, sharp journalist Thompson admit “When I speak at universities, I’m not sure if they’re inviting Duke or Thompson; I’m not sure who to be.” Seems like it wasn’t long before Duke took over completely.
Ah well, as drug-damaged as he got, HST was against the war in Iraq. Which reminds me, it’s time to go vote.
paperhaus September 19th, 2006
So the good political news about living in Pennsylvania is I get to vote against America’s most reprehensible Senator, Rick Santorum, in the fall.
The bad news is that it can be a perfectly beautiful day and I’ll come home to find this on my front door:
Freedom by Right
We don’t live in America
America lives in US1) Protect, defend and obey the Constitution for th U.S. which is based on Biblical principles.
2) [blah blah reduce taxes blah blah]
Restore morality - return prayer and the Ten Commandments
Restore resposibility - Abortion is not a form of birth control
[blah blah 2nd amendment blah blah]
Jim Barr for State Representative 20th Legislative District
I’ll give it this: it’s better copy edited than most wacko right wing tracts. However, properly placed commas are not enough to swing my vote to Jim Barr and his we-hate-abortion "consitution party." In fact, stacks of thousand dollar bills wouldn’t be enough.
paperhaus August 23rd, 2006
Once upon a time I thought Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was a radical right-winger who had to be stopped. Not anymore. Arlen is a Republican, sure, but in terms of Pennyslvania Senators he’s my hero, a voice of moderate reason.
Because the other Senator from Pennsylvania is Rick Santorum.
Maybe you don’t know Santorum, a man who is against birth control, against abortion, against stem cell research and against Darwin. He’s not nice to the poor, he’s not nice to the environment, and he’s awfully nice to the freaks at the far fringe of the right wing. He’s so atrocious that Dan Savage’s readers voted to use his name to describe, er, a certain sexual effluvium.
Rick Santorum will be debating his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, Jr., on September 3rd on "Meet the Press." While Casey is to the right of mainstream democrats, he’s still better than Santorum, who has been called "the most vulnerable congressional incumbent this election season."
A cool thing about being registered to vote in Pennsylvania: I get to vote against Santorum. Rock.
