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Obama: Birth Of Hope Doll

That's the title of an entry at Collectibles Today's site. And yes, it's adorable:

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Happy Birthday Blub

Blub, with a side of special birther sauce.

Personally, I want a pony for my birthday.

Dear Mr. President, what's a trillion dollars? And why are the banks and insurance companies taking so many of them from us?

What was it that Atrios was saying?

Without commenting on the broader issues, I remember being entertained in '08 when Naomi Klein, at a pretty non-political Free Press conference, spent her allotted time informing the assembled audience that they were all morons for thinking that things might be better in an Obama administration.

Don't misunderstand. I have nothing against Obama critics. I am one! Just, you know, direct your fire at him not the "stupid" people who support him.

I couldn't hear it over the cute overload:

Too bad it's not appropriate to look back at the 2008 campaign...

... otherwise, we could watch dissectin' Danny Schechter tell the story they* didn't want you to know about: Barack Obama's historically historic historicism.

Ain't it grand? He's the "People's** PresidentTM"!

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* Other than the entire media and blogosphere, and nearly every Democratic insider

** Other than for people who needed mortgage relief, single-payer health care, the separation of church and state, the end of DADT, a downsized military, the trillions handed to Hank Paulson's golfing buddies, the repudiation of Reagan's values, the restoration of Constitutional government, and a trustworthy, un-misogynistic, un-classist, un-ageist left-blogosphere

"Defines Cool"

He's so cool, he doesn't even watch the news:

"“When you hear he likes ‘Entourage,’ you have to go, ‘That figures,’” said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. “Anything Obama does is cool by definition. He’s the Internet president, he’s the BlackBerry president, and now, I suppose, he could be called the HBO president.” Obama likes “Entourage” so much he even rearranged his campaign schedule not to miss an episode."

Via BTD at Talkleft.

Personally, I think Blackberries suck, But I have no strong feelings about Obama's tv habits*.

Arms sales

From the "Title Nine" activewear catalog, about the bearer of the world's most famous bare arms:

She does all of us post-Title IXer's proud, but Michelle Obama is not singular, just the most visible of a whole generation of fit, powerful, post-Title IX women. When we celebrate her, we are, in fact, celebrating our own strength, our own true selves. And, ...

We've only just begun.

Michelle Obama does represent a healthy symbolic shift in people's perceptions of a First Lady (as a certain Mr. Clinton would have, as well). And if someone can make a buck on athletic-grrrl power in this economy, more power to them.

Rushmore can't wait

The man about whom everyone tells us "wait until he's done something" now has a school named after him.

In an emotional ceremony, a plaque commemorating President-elect Obama's future accomplishments was unveiled in the lobby, before the students went to their homerooms and voted "present."

Change of diapers you can believe in

In 8-1/2 months, there may be a mini-Baby Boom:

Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a serious aphrodisiac. And voters under 30 went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. When you combine those two elements—randy people of child-bearing age—the likely result is what the online Urban Dictionary has already dubbed "Obama Babies": children "conceived after Obama was proclaimed President, by way of celebratory sex."

And perhaps, shortly thereafter, there will be born a child who will one day run for president on the subtext of repudiating everything they stand for. How adorable would that be!

75 days to the inauguration, and I already have diabetes

Screencap from HuffPo:

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