Not My Mother's Blog

In response to a discussion about why the label liberal is an insult: I’m not insulted when someone tries to use that term (liberal) to disparage me. If understanding that skin color has no bearing on potential but a whole lot of bearing on accomplishment marks me as a liberal, I’m proud to be one. [...]

I’ve been trying to formulate a post about ‘how stupid are the American people’ for a couple of days now. It’s one of those things that I remember I’m doing whenever someone points out some other ridiculous statement by the McCain campaign, or bit of idiocy out of Sarah Palin’s mouth and people exclaim, “Surely [...]

Last year, when the news broke about Bush’s suspension of habeas corpus, endorsement of torture in cases of terrorism and issues of domestic spying, I started telling friends that I had serious fears that the upcoming elections would not be held. I had visions of Bush announcing a major terrorist plot – or of a [...]

Please do not give my share of the $7 billion to those banks that already have proved that they are shysters and crooks and con men. I know that right now it’s popular to be all self-righteous if you weren’t one of those people who fell for the line your cronies and pals were selling [...]

One of the things that McCain supporters (and I’m being kind because I’m really talking about Obama-haters here) like to throw out in the past week or two is how much Obama profited from Freddie and Fannie. They base their information on this quote from McCain: While Fannie and Freddie were working to keep Congress [...]

One of the things that I’m finding hardest to stomach these days is the new fad of blaming the current economic crisis on those fools who dared to dream that the American Dream might include them. The accepted response to “who is most at fault for the failure of the economy?” is ‘all those people [...]

From the New York Times this morning: The vice presidential debate will have a different format than the presidential debate. While the presidential debates will allow McCain and Obama to engage in back and forth dialog, Palin and Biden will answer questions given them but not address each other. The reason? McCain advisers said they [...]

This morning’s news from AP is that the SEC has placed a temporary ban on short-selling stocks to curb falling prices. That’s been a favorite aggressive market maneuver by options traders for a while. I’m not a market expert, but I’ve got a little common sense, and this is a common sense move. Basically, short-selling [...]

that’s what this rag calls itself. What it really looks like is a shill site that panders to the gullibility and credulity of people in debt to rake up fat affiliate profits from barely legal advertisers. Case in point – the banner ad on every page is for Cleansepatch, which claims to “effectively and immediately [...]

Lately, I’ve found a new addiction – www.mylot.com. I don’t recommend it to anyone for much of anything – it’s the domain of people who think they can get rich clicking on ads on various affiliate ad websites (don’t EVEN get me started on THOSE). This particular one pays people a few fractions of a [...]

…but he can’t bring himself to convincingly call a prevarication a lie. Right now we are losing momentum because Obama can not for the life of him express an idea in less than ten paragraphs. It’s time for him to put his speechwriters on hiatus for the rest of the campaign and bring some copywriters [...]