Owning a piece of the campaign

Now that Obama is the nominee, there’s a hot debate going on among his supporters about whether we should stop doing all we can to help him win or not, now that he’s made as all gag with the following panders to the center:
-Saying the Supreme Court was wrong to stop Louisiana from executing child [...]

New song: Waiting for the Blackout to End

Earlier this week, the New York Times clocked the CBS evening news’s total coverage of Iraq in 2008 at a total of 51 minutes. That’s slightly less than 2 minutes per week. ABC World News clocked in at 55 minutes so far, edging them just over 2 minutes per week.
The war’s proponents are claiming [...]

The Proper Framing for McCain’s Age: If You Don’t Get The Internet, You Don’t Get Al Qaeda

I think that jokes about John McCain’s age are funny. My band made a borderline-offensive music video where he has old-man tremors in his bathrobe. That said, I don’t actually think that McCain’s age makes him physically or mentally incapable of leading effectively, and any serious efforts to express that will probably backfire.
Seeing this similarly [...]

Doug Feith Hearts the Subjunctive Mood

When I was 13, I used to call an individual I didn’t like a “Dicknuts”. This seems apt:

“While emphasizing the disparate estimates about how close Saddam was to a nuclear bomb, Rice was saying that the CIA would not necessarily know when Saddam acquired one. She was warning that we might not learn this until [...]

Joe McCarthy’s Spirit Alive and Well at the VA

Here’s a good one.
Will King, an Army Staff Sergeant who served in Afghanistan who had been diagnosed with mild PTSD, felt that his conditions were worsening. Unemployed, failing out of school and entertaining suicidal thoughts, he filed a disability claim with the VA to have his PTSD upgraded from mild to moderate.
They denied his claim, [...]

Women For John McCain

The people who made this site are genius. Props.

Proud to live in California!

Congrats, newlyweds.

PLEDGE DRIVE! Help us buy some gas, or a van that doesn’t use any.

Hello friends of the Marginalized:
Life is a telethon. Well, no it’s not at all a telethon, but some things in life do require one.
We are going on tour next month. When The Actual, my old band, first went on tour in the fall of 2001, gas prices were at an average of $1.25/gallon. We made [...]

Videos page!

I added a new page with all our videos. Enjoy!

When you make a speech in front of a green screen…

You really open yourself up to things like this brilliant mashup from JedReport.com or big McCain disagreeing with little McCain.