HRC 4 SOS and spittle-flinging. That bitch v that bastard. Links you haven’t earned. Theme song of American progressives with bonus diagnostic song 4 pwoggles!

As some of you know, I am not a big fan of Thomas Friedman, but today he is asking an important, new question about whether or not Hillary Clinton should be the next secretary of state. He says, after four years of covering James Baker for #41, that foreign diplomats always knew that Baker spoke […]

It wasn’t so long ago that I was thinking of leaving BoB because of the endless stream of panic-stricken negativity that surrounded comment on the Obama campaign. I decided to chill and adopt a wait-and-see position. Well, what do you know? The guy knew what he was doing. The biggest Democratic victory in decades came […]

I’m furious. And, I am hereby abandoning my pledge to give Obama 160 day pass to do his thing without any criticism from me. I justify the change of heart and mind because Obama is already backpeddling on his pledges for change, to change the way things are done in Washington, to bring in a new team. What? Only former […]

Joe Lieberman is so corrupt, so unprincipled, so undemocratic, yet he walked, without even an apology, full of arrogance and continuing defiance, justifying his dual “celebrity” by falsely claiming that he was putting country first by trashing Obama and kissing McCain’s ass. The vote wasn’t even close. What does Lieberman have that the Democrats so desperately […]

Best novel I’ve read in a year. Links you don’t deserve. Steely Dan? Go-Betweens’ classic!

This would have happened.

And that is that the current almost total collapse of the US has a very visible predecessor. The State of California. Apparently William Bradley at HuffPost agrees.
Many of the lead actors (literally and figuratively) who have caused the degradation of this incredible state have left their muddy footprints all over the federal […]

Interesting set of recent posts on the moribund auto biz and what to do about it and lots of debate beyond BOTB, for sure. If Obama is serious about fixing the economy, global warming, technology leadership and restoring a leadership position in the world, the single most effective move he can make is revitalizing […]

No that’s not a typo. The rumors picking up steam all day to day and now into the weekend that Obama is thinking of appointing Hillary to be the Secretary of State is rather depressing. She is not experienced for the position, so this would represent pure politics, not change. John Kerry is 1000 times […]