I always suspected Elizabeth Hasselbeck was a terrorist

Michelle does The View. Fist jabs all ’round. I don’t see a flag pin in the bunch. Why does The View hate America?

The out-of-towners

Big weekend underway. New York bigwigs watertiger, res ipsa loquitor, (and Brooklyn Girl, I think) will be flying into Austin. They’ll be mixing things up with the local, and some wider flung, Texaschatonians. The inimitable Four Legs Good will be serving as Cruise Director of this whole movable shindig/hootenany, which includes BBQ [...]

Tonight, in the fullness of spring

I was thinking about this in the Crack Van last night, so trust me, it is not that profound. That said, if we notice them at all, it’s usually the simplest things that we resist the most, or that we dismiss.
Just because something is simple doesn’t mean it’s easy for us.
You are the young [...]

Weekend Warrior

“Wow. Wow. Wow.”
Indeed.
NTodd was on the ground at the Portland rally. See his photos.
Also, an interview with Gore Vidal @ UKTimes:
I ask if he thinks Obama has a similar charisma to that of John F Kennedy, whom Vidal got to know because he was related to his wife, Jackie.
“I never believed [...]

Moore: “for Obama The Movement”

Here’s why I don’t blog about politics more: because I often don’t notice things like this until a day or two after everyone else does. Granted, the PA primary blocked out the sun for most of the week so far, but even so Michael Moore’s endorsement of Obama was big news [...]

Village democracy

I waited to vote till last night because I wanted to caucus. I drove home from work and arrived in Wimberley about 6:15 to find traffic backed up through the town square. Coming out of the square and over the bridge, this was the view:
A line of cars waiting to turn into [...]

Dude … Obama took my parking space…

I didn’t get tickets to Obama’s rally in San Marcos last night but it was a huge event. I had an appt. in Austin and had to leave early because the parking and traffic situation was already approaching crazy, five hours before he was even due to speak. I walked through Sewell Park [...]

Nope, Sen. Cornyn, I’m still single

FYI to Texas Senator John Cornyn, I am a gay person, more specifically a lesbian. Also FYI, there was a very handsome box turtle in my yard for several days this week. Thirdly, be aware that during that entire time, neither myself or the box turtle were moved to set up housekeeping with [...]

Edwards out

It’s a sad day. It will be even sadder if neither Obama or Clinton picks up Edwards’ challenge to make a serious commitment to poverty issues.
Edwards will make an official announcement in a 1 p.m. speech in New Orleans.
More here.

Shorter Maddow to Matthews: Dude, you are a tool

As usual, the Crack Van was raucous good fun and this really was one of the top highlights of the night. Tweety has behaved disgracefully, even more than usual, of late with regard to Clinton and Rachel called him on it tonight.
Rachel Maddow just relayed to Chris Matthews’ face that many in the blogosphere [...]