It’s not Obama’s fault that two publicity-seeking reality-show wannabees crashed the State Dinner for the Indian Prime Minister, any more than it was Obama’s fault that the Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded Obama the undeserved Peace Prize.

In the absence of any real achievements by Obama, however, these quirks of fate seem...

Pulls out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m., driving fast enough to cause serious injury when he hits a fire hydrant and tree near his home. No alchohol involved. Likely verdict:

In massive fight with his wife, and drove off like a bat out of hell because he was pissed.

Just my speculation,...

From the London Times, on continuing problems in the British health care system:

An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the NHS has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts.

Amid claims that patients are dying due to poor care in at least...

Do not worry that your electronic medical records, once in the possession of the government, will not be safe. The government has extensive procedures in place to assure that the never, ever, could there be a breach of security.

These security procedures have been developed and tested by the Secret Service, so...

Or so it seems. Democratic Representative Mike Capuano is running in the Democratic special primary for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. While running against numerous other high-profile Democrats, such as Attorney General Martha Coakley, Capuano has put Dick Cheney at the center of his campaign strategy.

In an advertisement (below), which is running...

From an op-ed by Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.), on how Harry Reid was one of the architects, during the Bush administration, of the judicial filibuster. Now that Reid is Majority Leader, Reid is against the use of the filibuster for judicial nominees, and indignantly so:

This controversy arose when Democr...

Rasmussen Reports just released a survey indicating that 49% of Americans rate the health care system as good or excellent, and 27% rate the system as poor. There are many interesting

Scott Eric Kaufman, at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, thought counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings was a cool way to prove that Palin and her supporters were racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in available photos.

In fact, all Kaufman proved was that he was capable...

Before I head into a turkey-induced stupor, I’ll leave you with these two wonderful clips of the great Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. The first clip is the first time they danced together shortly after Nureyev defected. The second clip will leave your head spinning!

I hope you enjoy them...

Ithaca, NY, where I work, is in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Ithacans hate global warming because it is so corporate and capitalist.

So at what point in time should global warming have stopped?

“The ‘Ice age’ was really a series of many advances and retreats of glaciers. The Finger...

Sarah Palin’s visit to a turkey farm last year made news when the camera caught a shot of the owner slaughtering a turkey. The NY Times Editorial Board was all over...

Another post by Matthew Yglesias engaging in gross generalizations and stereotypes of the politically acceptable kind,

I really hope this is a bad Photoshop, not the real thing. From DrudgeReport: “Obama leaves WH clutching GQ mag — featuring himself…

Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, to be announced formally next week, centers around the phrase “finish the job.”

That is an interesting concept. Seems simlar to “peace with honor,” a very Nixonian phrase signaling that we will claim one thing (the dreaded “V” word) while accepting something else (the dreaded “D” word).

Even the ...

Does playing the race card never grow old? Apparently not when Palin Derangement Syndrome is at work.

At Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, Scott Eric Kaufman is