He almost got the job the first time around. As everyone knows, especially fans of his like timr, he has raised the tone–and quality–of news coverage, especially with his biting commentary sections on Countdown. However, he has been fired more times than Britney Spears has been in the hospital, practically being fired from every job […]

My personal blog is more than five years old. When it was in its infancy I presented a view of one of the most loathesome critters in the United States. There it is again, over on your right, the correct place for it to be. That was in the old days, when it […]

No timr, I have not abandoned this open thread post. I just wait until it gets some wear and tear or reaches the bottom on the page. But to paraphrase a movie favorite of mine, All Quiet on the BoB Front, judging from the last few posts. So here we are again. Have at it.

Set aside Obamajeebus and obamajeebusism. Think about Obama as professional political candidate and Obamacorp as professional political organization. Inevitable bumps and gaffes aside, consider how remarkably and relentlessly efficient and smart and effective and competent Obama and Obamacorp are compared to McCain’s or Clintons or, of course, Bushco.
Watch: Republican operatives, their mouthpieces, anti-Obamers, will portray […]

Obama has given an interesting speech on the Bible and Christian principles and values. James Dobson, the Christian extremist who heads Focus on the Family, is all up in flames over the talk. He is especially upset that Obama pitted him with Rev. Al as an example of the variety of individuals who bear the […]

If true that in scheme of wheeling galaxies (or, to go infinitely smaller, in the lives of starving children in Zimbabwe) the difference between a donkey-whore and an elephant-whore is measured in the bulge of secret Bermudian bank accounts, there’s always rooting for Obama because asshats like Richard Cohen disqualify him for the presidency because […]

If America had philosopher kings, George Carlin would have been one.
Carlin looked at the same world all of us do, but saw it differently. He saw connections we didn’t, as in his famous comparison of football and baseball. He could boil down everyday life to an essence that eluded the rest of us, as when […]

He has to endorse Obama, but when will he do it? Will he drag it out so that HE can be the story, again? Will he wait until the convention, or wait until he sees what role he will be given at the convention? Or is an endorsement part of the deal the Obama camp […]

I have long been a little concerned about the use of unmanned strike aircraft in the Middle Eastern wars. Many of these planes are actually flown by pilots sitting at a computer terminal in Nevada. I do not know how their terminals are set up, but I would imagine that they can only see what […]

OK. This is me in a Finnish TV commercial. I am the Director, the big boss. We filmed it in Tokyo, the waitress is really Russian. Now you will know what I look like.