I was pleased and proud to have this man as my president.  Pleased and proud to have his family as our First Family.  I was prou...

“  Time moves in one direction, memory in another. “   -- William Gibson, writer ...

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.“   -- probably...

"Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."   --  Mark ...

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the sim...

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."   --  George Eliot ...

Since the latest battle in the Republican Party's 15 year long campaign to gut the ACA will reach its catas...

"Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy...

And h/t to Digby for remembering this. From The Harvard Gazette , December 15, 2011 : Harvard [Institute of Politics] pol...

“Dammit, Henry, Frank Burns is a menace! Every time a patient croaks on him he says it's "God's will" or somebody else...

“If we can't make memories, we can't heal.”  --  Memento   Links:   ...

" The simple truth is that I am and always have been opposed to the Obama Administration's plans to nationalize health care. Pe...

This is from a post I wrote 12 years ago , during the first half of Barack Obama's first term as president.   Betwee...

For the record, I would be delighted if Barack Obama were on the top of the Democratic Party ticket this year.  I would gavotte across b...

As part of a nascent and irregular feature* on this blog, let us once again travel back roughly eight years and check in with President-el...

It turns out, in the Great Media Fish Slapping Dance, me and my little blog and podcast swing exactly as much cod as Hate Radio and Fox ...