Internal Monologue

"Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty" -Bill Maher's Twitter feed via Balloon Juice .

Werner Herzog interprets Where's Waldo? : and Curious George :

Statehood for Washington, DC seems fair and just to me. And it would probably tilt the balance of power in Federal Elections in a more progressive direction. Jonathan Bernstein asks why nobody is pushing for it: I still don't understand why the Democrats didn't just push through DC statehood while they had the chance, during the brief period in which they had 60 votes in the Senate. Even more so, I really can't understand why no one within the Democratic coalition even bothered trying to push for DC statehood during this Congress (the Constitutionally-safe option would be the carve-out, leaving a small Federal District with the monuments and some government buildings, including the White House and Capitol, along with a small state that contained all the residences; it's a lot safer, Constitutionally, than the House-vote bill). Hey, Chris Bowers and other electorally smart lefties: why didn't you fight for statehood? Some of his commenters recommend givi

If we ever want to stop re-fighting the Civil War, the first step is going to have to be admitting that in the space of American mythology and imagination (and hence politics), we're still fighting the Civil War. Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele comes out and says it: "We have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans," Steele said. "This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don't walk away from parties, Their parties walk away from them. "For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton." I can't imagine most Republican powers will

I don't use alcohol that way, but I feel the sentiment.

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone?skyline=true&s=i [I sent this from my iPhone, so please excuse any excessive brevity or typographical errors.] --Zachary Drake