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Kanye West for Mayor?

God, I hope not. Ben Shepard has launched the “Kanye 4 Mayor” campaign. The initiative includes a website, Kanye4Mayor.org, that features several pages of explanations on why Ye would be the best succ...

chicago, kanye-west, music, politics

Victims of Legitimate Rape Don't Get Pregnant

Or so says Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin. “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If...

linked, politics, todd-akin

Replacing Politics with TV

Two of the biggest things I blog about are politics and TV. I blog about those subjects so much I started sites on the topics (the long abandoned Political Jackass, Grand Old Parody, and Let's Talk Ab...

grand-old-parody, lets-talk-about-tv, political-jackass, politics, tv, websites

The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

It's hilarious to see how many of the signs make fun of the spelling on tea bagger signs.

humor, linked, politics, rally-to-restore-sanity

No on Prop A

Proposition A jeopardizes the funding of critical services including fire and police protection, street repair, park maintenance, after-school programs, services for seniors including senior nutrition...

linked, politics, prop-a, st-louis, taxes

On Prop C and Yesterday's Election

No big surprise that Proposition C passed yesterday. Missouri is a red state and the election yesterday was, for the most part, a Republican primary. There were very few close Democratic primary races...

cynthia-davis, politics, proposition-c

The 24 Types of Libertarian

I think most Libertarians I know fall into the Naive category of the 24 types.

humor, libertarians, linked, politics

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again

After seeing this town halls lately, I have become increasingly afraid of what direction the right wing is headed in our country. They have made it so that rational thinking is bad and that lies and f...

politics

Cynthia Davis Mentioned on The Colbert Report

After being the worst person in the world twice in one week, Cynthia Davis has now made headlines on The Colbert Report. I know a lot of Conservatives think he is being serious when mocking them, so t...

cynthia-davis, humor, politics, stephen-colbert, the-colbert-report

Cynthia Davis is the Worst Person in the World... Twice

Rep. Cynthia Davis of O'Fallon, MO (District 19) has recently made a complete ass out of herself showing how little she knows about what it's like on the other side of the tracks. Someone needs to pop...

cynthia-davis, keith-olbermann, politics

A Quick Political Rant

I've not blogged about politics for a while, mostly because I've been burnt out on the subject since the election. I get this way after every national election and can't write about politics for a lon...

barack-obama, democrats, politics, republicans

The Inauguration

[caption id="attachment1007" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Barack Obama taking the Oath of Office"] [/caption] I guess I should say something about the inauguration. The thing is, I do not ha...

barack-obama, general, politics

8 Years of Bush in 8 Minutes

This is the legacy George W. Bush leaves behind. History will not be kind to the worst president in U.S. history.

bush, politics

Election Story: I Didn't Vote For Obama Today

Today is election day, go vote. I voted for Barack Obama at 6:30 am this morning, after waiting in line for an hour, so this is not my election story. In celebration of the day I leave you with this t...

barack-obama, politics

McCain Responds to Obama's Fundraising Ability

McCain responded to amazing $150 million in fundraising (with 3.1 million donors) month of September by the Obama Campaign: "History shows us where unlimited amounts of money are in political campaign...

barack-obama, politics

Something Amazing

Something amazing happened in St. Louis today. Barack Obama came to St. Louis to campaign and was met with a crowd of 100,000 people. According to The Wall Street Journal, it was the biggest event eve...

barack-obama, history, politics

More Disgusting Racism from Republicans

I posted this over at Political Jackass but I think it's important enough to post it again here so more people can become aware of how nasty and dirty and racist the Republicans are in this election....

politics, race

Plan for Change

While John McCain and Sarah Palin lie about all of their changes, Barack Obama is sitting back and telling the country what he plans for change. Take a look at his new 2 minute ad. It's simple, yet po...

barack-obama, politics

Don't Believe the Lies

I'm very tired of seeing all these ads and one-liners in the press about how Obama and the Democrats are tax and spend and will raise your taxes. If you would look at the tax plans for both candidates...

barack-obama, john-mccain, politics