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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • Sometimes a “Pile On” is Both Appropriate and Necessary

    I haven’t seen the photos posted on the blog of “The South’s Greatest Grammar-tist”. I don’t want to. I like horror movies because they’re fake in their realism. Seeing a real live murdered person is of no interest to me. I would imagine that a lot of people are going over there, just like he…

  • They Did it to Themselves

    Note: I wrote this on the 6th, but just got around to posting it. Early this morning (5am Mountain) I was awakened from my restful slumber by the racket of some CNN anchor raking DNC Chair Howard Dean over the coals for enforcing rules the state parties passed in regard to their presidential primaries/caucuses for…

  • MIchigan, Florida, and Why I Don't Care

    So, this morning I get my sleep interrupted by Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, bitching about Howard Dean “disenfranchising” voters in FLorida by not seating their delegates. You’ve got to be kidding me. The Republican led Florida legislature, and the Republican Governor, none other than Mr. Crist himself, approved the legislation last May that eventually…

  • Baby, Bath Water, and Throw

    Last night’s grand delegate split did exactly nothing to help add some clarity to the 2008 Democratic nomination process. With just over 600 state delegates left to divvy up I have to wonder if any of this will come into focus before the convention in August. RIght now it’s not looking so good. Now, TPM…

  • Stupid Experience

    So the Hillary camp thinks that highlighting the experience of the presumptive Republican nominee somehow bolsters their claim to being “ready on day one”. This is the stupidest of stupid arguments, particularly in light of Hillary’s claim that there is more bias against women than men in elections. Hillary’s campaign has become a sad shadow,…

  • Motivational Waterboarding

    As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune and TPM A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe. I do a fair amount of work with…