Not My Mother's Blog

Fast on the heels of reports that Hawaii’s new governor is going to do whatever he can to put a stop to birtherism, we get this explanation about the origins of birtherism from the Keith Olbermann show — birtherism originated when the Obama campaign posted the short form birth certificate on the campaign website.

So all right. I’m not an economist. I don’t have any letters after my name so I’m talking from a pure common sense perspective here. After reading about how our tax policies encourage corporations to invest in jobs overseas, I have a suggestion for economists to mull over and poke holes in. The Harvard Tax [...]

Sarah Palin & Spiritual Warfare Let’s talk about unsavory association for a moment. Forget the Alaska secession and take a look at what the people she prays with believe. They believe that their prayer is responsible for death and destruction of those who are ‘against us’ – and who is that? How about Mother Theresa [...]

The McCain-Palin Mob Just watch it. Hat-tip to Clarus Visum for this one: If ignorant hate was currency, one rally could bail everyone out. Can I have that on a t-shirt? Please? CV also asks a question that’s been bubbling in my mind for days – are they trying to rile up some kook to [...]

As of now, I am probably relegating myself permanently to the wingnut conspiracy-theory sideshow. I’m going there because for a few years, I flirted with the edges of the Warrior of God religious right – and I recognized it in her from the night she stepped up on the stage and said she’d be thrilled [...]

Can someone please explain to me how this makes sense in our world or any alternate world you can imagine? It is my understanding the numbers on wall street today are due to the increase of unemployment figures,people that have been living off of their credit card lines can not get credit even with credit [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a web content writer, one of the things that I try to keep up with is the search terms people use when looking for something on the internet. It’s pretty important when you’re publishing web content because when you know the words that people enter into that little search box, you can try to [...]

Not a lot to say about this other than that the idea totally tickles me: Even though Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites that inspired A-Space are predominately the domain of young people, there apparently is no such generational divide on A-Space. “We have found that participation in A Space crosses every conceivable age line [...]