Donald Douglas: “The truth is that leftists don’t care about the advancement of minorities, they care about the advancement of their own power.” In related news, dwarves tend to be on the short side. And their legs and arms look kinda stubby. Seriously. I can cite studies.

Surprise! Okay. Not really a surprise. But, well, you know. **** update: Moe Lane chimes in. **** update 2: Pelosi doubles down: “Of the 40 CIA briefings to Congress reported recently in the press, I was only briefed once, on Sept. 4, 2002, as I have previously stated. “As I said in my statement of December 9, 2007: “‘I was briefed on interrogation techniques the administration was considering using in

I was too upset about this to deal with it, yesterday: Mickey Carroll, born Michael Finocchiaro on July 8, 1919, in St. Louis, who was one of the last surviving Munchkins in the classic film the Wizard of Oz, has died at the age of 89. Up until January 2009, Micky Carroll lived at his his own home in suburban Bel-Nor but in February he was fitted with a Pacemaker

David Thompson rips the space-time continuum a new one and pushes Jeff Greenwald in: I saw. I notice the reviewer equates “progressive politics” with “brains”. Thing is, the “progressive” moralising was one of the worst things about Trek, especially in its later iterations. Those “complicated ethical conundrums” were usually heavy-handed, slightly ludicrous and, more importantly, undramatic. Like the mysterious absence of money – which in 40-odd years was somehow never

From Howard Dean. No, not all the crap about this is just more of what Bush started (I thought the Democrats hated Bush); that Americans are optimistic; that the stimulus package is working to revive the economy; and that Obama is good for the economy. That’s to be expected. But rather the plain speak comes from the final bit: “I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight

Well, yes, if you believe Time’s Michael Grunwald: The party’s ideas — about economic issues, social issues and just about everything else — are not popular ideas. They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base. A hard-right agenda of slashing taxes for the investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance

Now, in Slate, Jeff Greenwald fellates Obama and Spock at the same time.

Just Manny being (a chemically-enhanced) Manny…

As I was reading through the comments to the article at Politico trumpeting socialized medicine, I was almost immediately confronted by what I’m certain will be the “second wave” attack strategy from progressives, the major points for which are distilled into this single, angry comment. In response to a commenter who notes that the Obama “plan” is quite vague on the particulars, our “progressive” useful idiot lets ‘er rip: What’s

Terrible how Star Trek has decided to entertain, rather than lecture: The latest film version of “Star Trek,” however, is more brawn than brain, and it largely jettisons complicated ethical conundrums in favor of action sequences and special effects. The film shows the beginnings of the Enterprise crew, tracing how Kirk, Spock and the others came together. All the character quirks are there, and the Enterprise is rendered more realistically