What Happened to Edwards?

John Edwards, my personal choice to be the Democratic Presidential nominee, has dropped out of the race. Of course, this was not unexpected. I had hoped he would wait until after super Tuesday so that he would have some delegate power to negotiate with at the convention. Pundits spent little time wondering what went wrong [...]

Catch a Falling iStars

Representative Tom Trail has done some digging and has come up with an opinion from the Attorney General’s office that should render a body blow to Tom Luna’s ISTARS- the ill advised plan to give teachers merit pay in exchange for them giving up their continuing contract rights. Teachers who participated in the program would [...]

Legacies and Lies

Yesterday marked the last State of the Union speech in what is certainly the worst presidency of my lifetime and will likely be regarded as being among the worst in American history. Thankfully, Bush will never give a State of the Union address again.
While “live blogging” the speech, Bob Cesca noticed that “he’s jovial tonight. [...]

Johah and the Whale

In the previous post about Sadly No!, I mentioned that the site had been engaged in the satirical skewering of Jonah Goldberg’s inane new book, Liberal Fascism. Quite frankly, I don’t think the book is worth serious critique. Nevertheless, David Neiwert northwest author, researcher and blogger at Orcinus, has decided to tackle the job and [...]

Sadly No! To Bryan Fischer

Even though there are hundreds of Progressive blogs satirizing the Wingnuts of the right, none do so with the wit and intelligence of the writers at Sadly No!
I have Sadly No! on my sidebar as one of the “Best O’ the Blogs because it is worth a read once or twice a day. As they [...]

Loyalty Trumps Competence

The phrase “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,” has entered the public lexicon as shorthand for President Bush’s leadership style. Time and time again Bush has rewarded ideological loyalty in the face of obvious incompetence.
Governor Otter appears to be operating on the same standard. A headline in the Idaho Statesman reads: “Otter [...]

Science in the Sunshine State

The anti-science creationists are continuing their state-by-state assault on evolution. Florida is currently revising the state standards for science and the strategy is to pass resolutions like the one below from Taylor County.
[W]e are requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for [...]