Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
An actual phone conversation with my mom a moment ago:
Mom: Your dad and I just heard a story about a guy who lived to be 110. Who would want to live that long? All your friends would be dead.
Me: Well, in 40 years or so I could be at the old folks home with you.
Mom: Are you trying to prove our point?
I’m getting her nothing for Mothers Day.
Newt’s organizing another tea party:
Then, we should make July 4, 2009 “American Freedom Day.” Tea Party activists across America should plan to go out and recruit supporters from every Fourth of July celebration in their community.
Don’t we already have a name for July 4th?
This seems lot worse than saying “Happy Holidays” at Target. This is like renaming Christmas “Happy Holiday Day.”
For the Tunch fans:
Hhe has really been ornery lately. Not sure what is up.
I miss Monday Night Football:
Just a couple more months.
The (Republican) Speaker of the House in South Carolina puts governor Mark Sanford in his place:
It makes no sense for the governor to cherry-pick the funds he will accept — such as the $50 million to make buildings more energy-efficient that he requested the other week — and oppose money for teachers and law enforcement officers on so-called “philosophical” grounds. This is inconsistent with any kind of viewpoint and goes against what most people would consider to be common sense.
This philosophical rejection could mean the firing of 2,000 to 5,000 teachers, 700 prison guards being let go, three or four prisons closed and 3,400 convicted felons released onto the streets.
[….]During these difficult times that have sent our unemployment numbers to a record-high 11.4 percent — and consistently among the highest two or three rates in the nation — our state is in need of a true leader. Someone who is prepared to govern with decisive action, not just political rhetoric and ideology.
It’s tempting to say it’s surprising that someone so lucid and practical would be Speaker of the House of a government as dysfunctional as South Carolina’s appears to be. But there are pragmatic people everywhere, thank God. The problem with the Republican party isn’t that all of its elected officials are loons (they’re not), it’s that they’re letting the inmates, er, I mean philosophers, run the asylum.
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
I can already tell that the 60 Minutes piece on 401K’S is going to infuriate me.
Don’t forget- #1 Ladies on HBO.
*** Update ***
I tried PJ Madison’s Kashmir Cinnamon ice cream tonight, and it was delicious.
Life is too short to not eat ice cream every day.
My apologies- completely forgot to throw one up.