from serious politics to dancing penises

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because that's the way we roll here.




h/t jezebel

a guttermorality political endorsement

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i just did something i swore i'd never do: i donated money to a political campaign.

mr. schiff has been featured on these pages before--i've been following him for a long time.

this is my kinda republican--he doesn't give a damn about such sideshows as abortion or gay marriage; he's got his eye on the only ball that matters right now: the financial future of the united states of america.

and speaking more broadly, he's also my kinda politician--a successful, self-made entrepreneur who came to politics only after having established his credibility out in the real world, and who is just as even-handedly critical of republican policies (and politicians) as he is of democrats'.

and the icing on the cake? he's going up against one of the chief architects of the financial catastrophe in which we we find ourselves today: that most bloated, corrupt and infinitely inept of all political hacks, christopher dodd.

schiff clearly saw--and has spent the last ten years warning the world about--everything that dodd was so obviously blind to. ridiculed for years as "dr. doom," schiff's critics have all pretty much shut up, as everything he predicted has pretty much come to pass.

and his followers? they're a passionate bunch, to say the least. from its humble beginnings as a grassroots "draft schiff" movement barely a year ago, his campaign has raised over $1.1 million, most of it from out-of-state donors--and far more than has the tainted mr. dodd.

how will this race play out? i think it's gonna be fascinating to watch. first, to see how he does against the various party hacks the republican establishment--who hate schiff and see him as a huge threat to their status quo--run against him in the primary; second, to see how the connecticut electorate take to his message; third, to see how his candidacy resonates nationally; and, finally, the reaction of the dodd camp to this, the most formidable threat they've seen in 30 years.

i, for one, will be following it closely.

if you'd like to get a sense of the man for yourself--or if you just want a quick primer on how we got to the sad, sorry place we are today, and where we're headed if things don't change--i urge you to watch the following clip featuring most of his very first campaign speech, given yesterday in hartford. trust me, there's no empty political rhetoric here:




[and now that he's gotten the stamp of approval from this bastion of respectability--seriously, what could possibly stop him?]

and no, the extra hour of drinking time does not make up for it

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can i just tell you how much i hate the ugly annual hoax that is daylight saving time?

they lure you in during those first heady days of spring by pseudo-magnanimously tossing you an extra hour of sunlight, only to cruelly snatch it away just when--as everything's dying and the days grow cold and short--you need it most.

i'm always ok (or what passes for ok with me, anyway) once i adjust to the jolt of sudden darkness at 5:00 of an autumn afternoon here in golden southern california--but that first grim week or so?

bleh.

and i'll bet that ribbon around the kid's neck holds a first-prize medal

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nothing new here, but the pure, complacent idiocy of this photograph and everything it implies just so completely annoyed the fuck outta me i had to post it.