Posts under ‘Tild: the Blogspot Years’

….Midterms,
and all through the state,
the GOP phone banks
were all working late
The robots were making
repetitive callz
To irritate folks and then
blame it on Walz
….
Well, that’s it. I’m exhausted. Maybe I can come up with a few more stanzas tomorrow, but for now that’s all I got.
Regular readers may have noticed a lack of posting here for [...]

Yes, I know I’m one of those wet blankets who’s lately gotten fed up with reading about the upcoming election. So sue me, I’m breaking my moratorium. Over at MinnMon today Joe Bodell takes a closer look at Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District. Being a resident of the 3rd, and after [...]

Via Salon:
Bill O’Reilly appears on “The Late Show with David Letterman” tonight, but Page Six has already seen the tape and reports the goods. After calling the Fox pundit a “bonehead,” Letterman ventures a question on the war:
Letterman: Let me ask you a question — was there more heinous, more dangerous violence taking place before [...]

The problem with being the sort of blogger who never posts criticism of local media election coverage is that if you ever do venture into that territory, concerned friends who themselves yammer on from morning til night on the subject tend to take you gently by the arm and lead you to a quiet corner where [...]

Okay, let’s make one thing clear right from the get-go:  It’s not that I don’t care about the upcoming election; it’s just that I’m overwhelmingly sick of  it.
No, this doesn’t mean that I’m not going to vote, or that I’m not going to continue to work the phone banks or not go door-knocking or not do any of [...]

Not the newest of links  [yes, I hate infrequent, furtive blogposting from work; thanks for asking!] but this item in the Chicago Tribune from a couple of days ago is still worth a read:
What it means to be a liberal
By Geoffrey R. Stone. Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, is [...]

Yes, let’s do that.
Right on cue (”Right on cue”– get it? hee hee) the D-man himself is coming to town today. He’ll be the headliner at the Stand For the Family rally at the Excel Center.

It will be interesting, by the way, to see how Dr. Dobson, who declared of Bill Clinton that “no man [...]

Calling all fans of silent film; of great movie music; and especially all fans of Tristero, who has been posting since the beginning of this year over at Digby’s place.
Turner Classic Movies is showing the 1928 Carl Dreyer film
The Passion of Joan of Arc tonight at 12:15 AM Eastern Time
–that’s 11:15 PM Central Time [...]

Nostalgia:
Remember the Brunching Shuttlecocks? Among the things we have them to thank for is this classic:
The Geek Hierarchy
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YouTubing:
Hey, when you’re as fascinated by sugar beets as I am, you’ll watch anything that has beets in it:
We got the beets!
On the other hand, this has no beets in it at all, but somehow [...]

Those bloodthirsty, murder-enabling Democrats are at it again: at a county fair there’s a DFL booth where adults and children are encouraged to use a squirt gun to shoot water at a drawing of an elephant’s butt.
No wonder there’s so much pearl clutching and dropping down on the fainting couch over at MDE.
No, never before [...]