• Clan: McTiVo

    PANnameh! PANameh-uh-uh-uh-UH-uh

    The recaplet by the wonderful Miss Alli is up for the most recent episode of TAR8: Television Without Pity | Season 8 Episode 5 The race heads out of New Orleans to Panama, where for the entire first half of the episode, absolutely nothing occurs to affect anyone’s placement that is the result of anything other than pure luck. Finally, after several bunches and unbunches that have nothing to do with anyone’s performance, there is one significant decision in the form of both the Paolos (in first place) and the Gaghans (in last place) deciding it is most advantageous to…

  • Childfreedom

    The Right Way: Smear Tactics

    Candidates Who Play Anti-Gay Card … might not be doing as well in the next election cycle as they expect: Here’s a press release from Ron Grignol, the Republican challenger for a House seat in the 43rd District in southeastern Fairfax near Fort Belvoir: Del. Mark Sickles, a Democrat, “sent a mail piece deliberately misleading the voters” by showing Sickles cradling a toddler in his arms. “The problem is Mark Sickles does not have a child or a family.” Grignol notes in the release that he indeed has children, which he says helps him understand how to improve schools, while…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    White House Schadenfraude

    The happy news just keeps coming. Are things finally starting to unravel at the White House? Are they completely dysfunctional now? Are the more principled, more reality-based members of Congress finally realizing there’s no profit in supporting a morally bankrupt White House? Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of unprincipled lying pocket-lining bastards. First, a selection from the Washington Post’s “20 most emailed articles” for today: Bush Aides Brace For Charges Vice President For Torture Harriet Miers Withdraws Nomination In Ottawa, Rice Seeks To Temper Bitterness About Bush Policies What Rice Can’t See Grand Jury Hears Summary of Case…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Huh? Sox Musta Won

    I was up reading last night around 11pm when all of a sudden, somebody started firing off Roman candles, fireworks, and maybe guns. What the? Then I realized. The Sox must have won the series. Meh – I’ll never be a Chicago sports fan.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Miers: Yer OUTTA here!

    Okay, so Harriet Miers has resigned. And now Charles Krauthammer is going to be insufferable to his friends and enemies, because he correctly called dibs on how the White House could “gracefully” get out of the nomination Nina Totenberg called a “disaster.” Nina dished some dirt; apparently in the WH coaching sessions for Miers, they couldn’t even get her to speak up loud enough to be heard; let alone get her to answer questions in a manner that would reassure Senate Judicial committee members as to her fitness. A previous story filed by Ms. Totenberg had detailed that “she’d flunked…