the imperfect samaritan. it is saturday and the writer of booker rising is having dinner at the dupont circle chipotle when she sees someone attempting to steal a purse. credit default swaps for dummies. rooshv lends money to a friend and then ask another to insure the debt. culture dating and politics in chocolate city. in line at starbucks for a morning brew this writer is reminded of her lon...
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rumors are swirling around the internet that the morons from code pink who interrupted john mccains speech last night were able to get in to the convention hall using msnbc badges. it was well publicized that security was extremely tight at the convention and badges were individually bar coded so did someone at msnbc give those lunatics badges shay over at booker rising has some very interesting d...
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john mccain for president and when i responded that im still an undecided voter the interviewer george alexander seemed surprised. however that led to questions about what i want to see in the next president. more continued here......
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david reeves flickr theres lots of chatter that mccain might announce a vp pick this week. whether or not thats likely the vice presidential betting steamed up recently centering on mitt romney or bobby jindal. jindal backers will be sad to know that he just announced he wont be mccains running mate. chris beer certainly wont be a happy man tonight. hes 26 and after living all over the world is n...
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thanks as always to farai chideya devin robins and all the folks at nprs news and notes for allowing me to participate on todays bloggers roundtable. i was on with shay riley of booker rising and arlene fenton of black women vote. we discussed the fairness doctrine ralph nader and increased traffic at white supremacist websites. click on the picture above to listen to our segment. addthis url...
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id like to stand up for the most spatupon minority group in the united states right nowthe thirty percenters. like smokers and wasps those who continue to support president bush are considered fair game for public ridicule. thirty percenter is a slur used to describe those regarded by the left as ignorant cretins because they do not share the view that bush is the worst president to ever set foo...
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ive generally been staying away from politics in this blog i think there are plenty of people covering the various positions with more enthusiasm and insight without another semiqualified bloviator chiming in. but really whats with all the smoochies for obama i made fun of hillarys 35 years of change for the empty grasping phrase it was. but is it only because people are finally seeing her for th...
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