I want to see Baracky and Hill go boca a boca with bar food and drink.  I want to see them slam boilermakers.  I want to see them eat pickled pigs feet and pickled eggs. To what tests of non-elitism would you like to see the candidates subjected? I mean, this is a start, but . . . no Chicken Dance? UPDATE: Mrs. Clinton sucks up to Pennsylvania “Dutch”.  Coincidence? h/t

Obama opines that Algore won the 2000 election. h/t JD & thanks Maggie Katzen I’m glad to see he’s reaching out.  I mean, that HIV/AIDs as narrowly targeted against the black community thing was so parochial.   It turns out that everyone who didn’t vote for Bush has been victimized.  We’re talking inclusivity; we’re talking Big Tent Victimization; we’re talking Rich White Folk vs The Peops. Next thing you know, we’ll

David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, is working overtime to douse the fires caused by Obama’s condescending comments about the culture and values of Americans who live in “small towns” in Pennsylvania and the Midwest: “Did he choose his words poorly? Yes,” Axelrod said. “Does it reflect something larger? Absolutely not. Those who are trying to portray it that way are disingenuous.” Yet the Politico story reporting Axelrod’s spin contains

At Pull On Superman’s Cape, MC has a video and essay which juxtaposes the way in which Black Liberation Theology recasts the crucifixion as a lynching with Barack Obama’s dramatic use of lynchings, both real and imagined, in his memoirs and on the hustings. Also, you may have heard some of the buzz about about the most recent blasts from Obama’s former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, America’s founding fathers “planted

Excitable Andy thinks he is attacking Hillary Clinton for criticizing Barack Obama’s condescending comments about the culure and values of people who live in “small towns” in Pennsylvania and the Midwest: The “bitter” spat is gold for Morris-Rove politics, which is why Clinton is exploiting it so baldly. It is exactly the kind of debate that has constructed American politics since Vietnam; it is exactly the kind of politics that

“Same-sex couples are more honest about monogamy and sex, researchers say. They’re also more mature, considerate and fairer to each other than heterosexual couples. They’re funnier and more affectionate when they argue. Less controlling. They don’t take everything so personally,” she wrote. A bit taken out of a stimulating article on “gay marriage,” that states that state-sanctioned matrimony has little if any effect on the nature of stable gay and

TPM has posted a video excerpt of Barack Obama discussing the Thomas Frank thesis with Charlie Rose, from November 23, 2004 – with references to guns and religion — so this is not a new topic for the presidential hopeful. Regular Protein Wisdom visitors will chuckle over Obama’s observation at the beginning of the clip that the Democrats need to think about their “overarching narrative.”  But the conclusion of the clip is where viewers

(a Serr8d joint) JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooos! Professor Emeritus from the intelligentsia; reality based

Jane Smiley goes on a rant about “Bittergate,” proving how acerbic and alienated the cosmopolitan have become:

all the pigeons gonna run to him: The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. The writer concludes his piece in this rather chilling way: