Get Jim’s RSS Feed2:29 PM 02/03/2012
This is 2012. It's the 21st Century. Just something to keep in mind as you read the following from Reuters: (more)
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1:05 PM 02/03/2012
I don't blog about it as much as I used to (you're welcome), but two years ago today I got hit by a car and I've been dealing with it ever since. (more)
12:16 PM 02/03/2012
Good day and hello to everyone in the Occupy movement. You guys doing alright? I know, I know, things haven't been going the way you wished they would. There are still people who have more money and/or better jobs than you, no matter how many tambourines you bang and windows you smash, and it's just not fair. You probably wish you could pack up your lice-infested sleeping bag and your Guy Fawkes mask and just move to another planet. (more)
10:05 AM 02/03/2012
Feeling down in the dumps because none of the candidates are really doing it for you? Wish you had some other options? Well, chins up, America! (more)
4:17 PM 02/02/2012
As the adoring media coverage fades, our dear friends in the Occupy movement seem to be getting even more sullen and peevish than they were to begin with. San Francisco Chronicle: (more)
1:38 PM 02/02/2012
You're not alone. The party's over, and all the water and aspirin in the world isn't going to cure the Nobel committee's hangover. Associated Press: (more)
10:11 AM 02/02/2012
Even as Holder testifies before Congress again on Fast & Furious -- which he has already lied about under oath -- his favorite guy, our own Matthew Boyle, has dug up yet another DOJ scandal: (more)
4:44 PM 02/01/2012
As we all know, the best way to get somebody to see things your way is to throw stuff at him. Well, if he's a Republican. It happened to Romney in Minnesota just a little while ago. This video doesn't show the childish, throwing-things tantrum itself, but you can see Romney's reaction to it: (more)
2:06 PM 02/01/2012
This is a couple of days old, so it's fitting that it took me until today to notice. TV Newser: (more)
1:21 PM 02/01/2012
Which is to say, she uses the word to mean the opposite of what most mere mortals think it means, in their pitiable ignorance. The Hill reports: (more)
10:53 AM 02/01/2012
Just four. Well, nine, if you count the other five who were up to other terrorism-type stuff. The important thing is that they're Not All. The BBC reports on yet another in a long line of completely unrelated incidents: (more)
10:28 AM 02/01/2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHd4BWs_X0U[/youtube] (more)
10:01 AM 02/01/2012
The news just hasn't been the same since Anthony Weiner went away. But now he's back. Yay! NYDN: (more)
4:41 PM 01/31/2012
In what has to be the most specific "Not All Muslims" item ever, the Smoking Gun reports: (more)
2:25 PM 01/31/2012
Sometimes I make a wacky humor joke that before Obama's term is up, he's going to host Saturday Night Live. So far he hasn't announced any such plans, but this next one would be even better. Alexandra Myers reports: (more)
12:09 PM 01/31/2012
The Associated Press provides the latest example of why fewer and fewer people trust the Associated Press every day: (more)
10:42 AM 01/31/2012
Good ol' Chris was on The Morning Majority on WMAL in DC this morning, plugging whichever book he's plugging. If you're as fond of his voice as I am, you can just skip to the 6:07 mark. Listen as your pal and mine, Mary Katharine Ham, trips him up with some reality: (more)
8:24 AM 01/31/2012
No, not the TV show Survivor. The band. Survivor is the name of a band. They were around before the TV show. Seriously, they were. (more)
