Al Franken, the junior senator from Minnesota, shows off his prodigious sketching abilities yesterday at the senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Senator Franken’s portrait is of Senator Jeff Sessions. I suppose he had to stay alert doing something, given Sessions’ constant droning about nothing in particular.
Entries from June 30th, 2010
American Nationalism On Display
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Comedy
h/t daily dish
Tags: america·Nationalism·Soccer·World Cup
Glenn Beck: Blacks Don’t Own Martin Luther King
June 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · america, Democracy, News, Political Fringe, Politics, Racism
Digby breaks it down: I guess it just doesn’t occur to these people that any discussions of “owning” an African American civil rights icon are, by definition, offensive. To then derisively tell blacks that they don’t own him and then in the next breath say they have gotten “lazy” and distorted his ideas is so [...]
Tags: america·blacks·Civil Rights·Glenn Beck·Martin Luther King
Are Republicans Changing The Race Narrative Into Something Else?
June 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · america, Faith, Politics, Republicans
Bravo to South Carolina, for a change. South Carolina is now home to some of the most pioneering political sea change in the Republican party in more than 50 years. Nikki Haley, a conservative Indian-American, is poised to become the state’s first female governor– and first minority head of state in its history. Republican state [...]
A Thought On The Passing Of Senator Robert Byrd…
June 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Democrats, News, Politics
Sullivan speaks: Speak no ill of the dead? Well, let me simply say that the racist, populist, larcenous bigot of a Senator – a man who robbed the American tax-payer to pave his state with baubles and bribes – is not going to be much mourned in these parts. Byrd’s past was not necessarily prologue [...]
Tags: Robert Byrd
In Jail For Being in Debt?
June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · america, News
What does this really solve? As a sheriff’s deputy dumped the contents of Joy Uhlmeyer’s purse into a sealed bag, she begged to know why she had just been arrested while driving home to Richfield after an Easter visit with her elderly mother. No one had an answer. Uhlmeyer spent a sleepless night in a [...]
Clint Webb For Senate
June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Comedy, Politics
When are we going to get to the point when we actually respect our elected officials? When we elect Clint Webb to the United State Senate. Clint Webb. Brutally honest.
Tags: Clint Webb·Comedy·Politics
Why Is Brian Kilmeade On Fox News?
June 26th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Comedy, Political Fringe, Politics
To elevate the collective intelligence of the other anchors of course. Here’s a prime example of the sheer volume of his intellect: Yes Brian! Why hasn’t the president put on his damn wetsuit, and raced to the bottom of the gulf to cap that hole? Surely it must take no time at all, since his [...]
