John McCain gets himself a younger woman for his 72nd birthday!

Sarah Palin, the Harriet Miers of vice-presidential candidates, said today that she was the next step in Hillary’s 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling. If she means taking all the shards of glass and then using them to bleed the women’s movement back 50 years, then yes, she is!
I’m (duh of the century) not [...]

Convention Blogging Installment 1

And what a crazy day and a half it’s been.
First off, my friend Andrea was already my hero but her giving me her convention pass so I could see Michelle Obama’s speech in person = best favor ever, even though Andrea goes above and beyond the call of duty for me and/or my band repeatedly [...]

I don’t think Biden does anything for this consituency

From DemocraticStuff.com:

(h/t Scott from My Favorite Citizen)

Good week for the Dems!

It’s been smooth sailing over here ever since John McCain forgot how many houses he has. We did a song a couple weeks ago about how nonsensical the notion that he’s the regular guy that Americans can relate to, despite his many estates, wife’s net worth of $100 million, etc. called “One of the Regulars.” [...]

More on McCain’s not being able to count his houses

This does not make him out of touch with ordinary Americans, many of whom can’t count how many homes they have because they are trying to figure out if they have zero or one.

Too Hardcore for HuffPo!

Every now and then we do a song that I just don’t bother putting on The Huffington Post because it’s clearly stylistically too removed from anything their readership listens to. This week’s song is one of those.
In our 47 weeks we have flitted around from style to style quite a bit, and for me, these [...]

The Magnificent Seven

Oh what a lovely gift this is, that John McCain doesn’t remember how many houses he owns (the correct answer is basically seven.)

So, Obama Campaign: Nice ad — but who the fuck is scoring these things? This ad should’ve had campy, funny score. Not “someone just died” pianos. Or juxtaposition [...]

“Mixing pop and politics, they ask me what the use is”

“I offer my embarrassment and my usual excuses.”
Billy Bragg does it best. Performance of “Waiting For The Great Leap Forward”, 1991.

SteveAudio accidentally explains the point of blogs.

Blogger/acoustician SteveAudio didn’t mean to do it, but his new post just explained the whole point of citizen journalism. From his new post:
Some interesting stuff in the news about McStraightTalkExpress and the Saddleback Church love fest. But that’s not important right now.
Why was a mega-church, that has its own street and practically its own ZIP [...]

Song #46: Vultures and Hawks

Balancing the ticket is a fine idea. Picking a veep with more international chops than Obama? Sure. Picking a woman since they are half our population and Obama very much is not one? Absolutely! Balancing out the best judgment of Obama’s career (the “let’s not go to war in Iraq” one) with someone who was [...]