However, unlike many of the populous blogs I don’t think things will go quite as planned. While our country has been dominated by the extreme right, it does not necessarily follow that we will move hard left. The pendulum will swing more left but no more than the vast proportion of our country is comfortable with.

The movement left will undoubtedly move the Senate and the House into Democratic territory because that is our only current choice when we seek to oppose. This movement will begin to fracture in 2010 and 2012.  Read more 

Go on over and read her firsthand.

SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I’m sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted on the MTV Choose or Lose ’08 Vlogger competition.  Read more 

You’ve gotten the email, or heard about it in the checkout line, or around the water cooler. “Don’t Buy Gas On May 15!!” it sez, with much ranting and pent-up fury and a, sadly, entirely fictitious claim that “this was done in 1977 and gas dropped 30 cents the next day!!” and the like.

Hey, I’m all for it. Not because it will bring down the price of gas though. Nothing will bring down the price of gas except a reduction in the consumption of gasoline in this country. But the call to arms for the Ides of May is still possessed of some merit if only because it gets people talking and thinking about the subject.

Boycotts are not as hopelessly eye-rollingly futile as people would like you to believe. Collective action is never wasted.  Read more 

Not a fan of the Sun Bull? Well, why the hell not? Everybody knows that He’s the bedrock of our society:

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