I used one of the city’s public restrooms, the “Portland Loo”, and saw a sign pointing me to the restroom’s website, with a notice to follow the “Portland Loo” on twitter and facebook. Why does the Portland Loo have a web presence?  Yes, these things are preferable to the public restroom

One thing I find strange about Romney is that his eyebrows come all the way down to (or start at) his eyeballs, with no skin in between. It’s got to BE there or he couldn’t blink, but darn his close up on TIME not long ago really emphasized this. At a distance it’s okay though. [...]

Continuing the theme of third party relays of Larouche, while the Libertarian Party of Harris County doesn’t much have use for him, the gate’s wide open with the Constitution of California”, as we see here by chair Don J. Grundmann (as well the “REAL Independent Party — for charges against wha

Russia’s creative protestings. 1986 and Gingrich was indeed part of the Conservative attack squad on Reagan. Grover Norquist plans Obama Impeachment, 2014.  If he wins.  If he doesn’t extend Bush tax cuts. Gingrich and space. Where is My … Gingrich? The Moon does not belong to the US, Newt. Robert Zubrin

A campaign image that was used by the Wendell Willkie for President campaign in 1940.  Was used on buttons — here we see it on a postcard.   Anything plastered with this image almost certainly have to be valuable, beyond anything else the Willkie campaign put out, naturally of interest to afficinedoes of Mad Magazin

I ran across the third eidtion of the Irving Stone “They Also Ran”, the first edition published in 1943 the second in 1947 and this third in 1966.  The first finished off with Willkie, the second with Dewey, and has cut and pasted the final paragraph “of the candidates profiled, the only candidate that mi

There is a 30 second of clip on youtube of Newt Gingrich in a CSPAN interview saying that he was siding with “Rockefeller”  as the Rockefeller Chairman of the South — during the Rockefeller — Goldwater battles.  (A position that wouldn’t get you too far.) In his last debate he referenced bein

How Art is healing post Revolution Egypt.. Police walk the halls of schools, ticketing minor offenses.: “I’m weird. Other kids don’t like me,” said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. “They were saying a lot of rud

“Unbelievable and Hilarious.  Newt Gingrich has actually won the South Carolina Primary.” Words spoken by a man, the only person he is speaking it to beside himself is someone who appears to be his son, oh about eleven years of age. Which is not to say the eleven year old son might not be interested.  [...]

 North Korean news on German happenings. Fred Armisen on Conan.  Vaguely familiar story. Don’t be so sure that “Socialist Used to Mean Something“.  It’s been a political epithet for ages, applied to just about everything.  Just read McCarthy era speechifying, and the 60s speeches of Nixon and Rea

Behold!  A rather tedious observation from David Brooks. I was also struck, as in New Hampshire and Iowa, by the mood of this year’s rallies. Republican audiences this year want a restoration. America once had strong values, they believe, but we have gone astray. We’ve got to go back and rediscover what we had.

Rick Santorum is ginning up for the anti-Romney slot. “He said, ‘We don’t need a Jesus candidate. We need an economic candidate,’ ” Santorum recalled later, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. “And my answer to that was, ‘We always need a Jesus candidate, right?’ “

American Crossroads running ad against Bob Kerrey in Nebraska. Probably not running. No Labels advocates bipartisan seating arrangement at SOTU.  Really solving the nation’s problems there. Chris Elliott stand up Citizens United puts up new anti-Occupy documentary  Gingrich continues the war path against Romney Remi

Hm. The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office corrected vote totals in the New Hampshire primary and openly gay candidate Fred Karger received 485 votes to Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s 347. The original vote tally had Karger trailing Bachmann, who dropped out of the race after her last-place finish in

Hm. Arrow first came to public attention in 2000 after scaling a U.S. Forestry building in downtown Portland where he lived on a nine-inch ledge for 11 days. In 2008, he plead guilty to arson. Yes. KOIN reports the tree climber was environmental activist Tre Arrow. He was saying, “Portland, will you love and respect [

Al Capp’s revamped Li’l Abner Comics Craze hits Cairo.  For the typical reason.  Censorship backlash and all that. Bohemian Grove toy set. Hitlerish. Preparing for 11 Months of Mitt Romney Hell. How Citizen’s United Allows candidates to continue running. Random Comparison:  It was a declaration as shock

“He’s a Massachusetts Moderate” … … Actually this is a reasonably decent comment from Newt Gingrich.  He could call Mitt Romney a “Massachusetts Liberal”, and his voting base wouldn’t do a second take, but words have meaning anyway. Down to Ron Paul.  Who’s “blow

  We’re in the weird racist cross-winds section of the Republican nomination fight, and they are… just weird.  In the past, candidates are accused of throwing out coded appeals.  There’s not a whole lot of veneer of subtext with these ones.: Rick Santorum.   A few days ago, GOP Presidential can

 Obama does a Recess Appointment The most ardent of Ron Paul’s followers think the US government is too big when it has more people than the secret number Ron Paul has written on his magic anti-alien hemp underpants.  Newt Gingrich on the Anti-Romney Path. Wow. 25 People who google “Santorum” for the first t

Occupy Iowa: They were a press-conscious bunch. Everybody was tired of hearing stories about how unfocused they were. Yet there they were, arguing that the day’s message was about money in politics, no, the National Defense Authorization Act and global American hegemony, no, both! ”There’s no discipline!” progressi

  To use the logic deployed by the Larouchians at, for instance, Factnet… The Weekly Standard must be Larouchies, huh?  Huh?  Huh? I haven’t read the article.  The telling point would be if the author of this piece uses the phrase “cadre” to describe the Baby boomer generation. II.  Armagedd

  Occupy Charlotte splinters:   People’s Coalition of the Carolinas. Ta-Nehisi Coates:  Ron Paul is like … Louis Farrahkhan. The Incredible Meaningless of the 2012 Presidential Election: Except perhaps for Aaron Burr and John Breckinridge (the candidate who came in second in the Election of 1860), I can�

Science bit sized crisis Man in Richland, Washington discovers Noah’s Arc! Indidana State Senator wants to fine people for screwing with the National Anthem.  Because that Rosseane Barr performance is so on the top of her mind. Everything Ron Paul thinks is unconstitutional. Jon Huntsman SLAMS Ron Paul … and we

2012.  Time to reset your vantage point based on Back to the Future. Marty McFly is travelling back in time to 1982 now, three years before the movie was released.  He is travelling in a … I don’t know… Chevy Volt?  Doc Brown is incredulous upon hearing the name of the President of the United [...]

Well, another day, another chance to look into the Ron Paul universe.  Take it away, Prison de la Planet! The assertion that Ron Paul is the not only the least conservative candidate in the 2012 GOP field, but also the most liberal is beyond ridiculous. In fact, Ron Paul is not only the most conservative [...]

  Occupy Des Moines.  For whatever reason. Arlen Specter’s Stand Up Routine. 1870s Rules for Teachers.  Not real.  Probably Who wouldn’t want a subscription to the Ron Paul Survival Report? Ron Paul Newsletter tweets Ron Paul fans sells his  Zimbabwe One Hundred Trillion Dollar bill  Dastardly Conspira

Random. “Wait.  Let me see that shirt.” Dukakis / Bentsen ’88. “Dukakis?  Really?” “Not a fan?” “I can’t say I had an opinion at that age.” “Yeah.  Well, I’m from Massachusetts, so there’s sentimental thing there.  I met Dukakis when I was 6.

Y’know.  Reading this Ron Paul solicitation for one of his newsletters… … The, uh, Ron Paul Survival Report?… Actually, no.  But it is the Ron Paul Survival Package. It hits me right with the opening… Dear Fellow American. This might be a preview of the themes a President Ron Paul will go in

The Civil Archipelago, David Remnick, New Yorker, December 19, 2011 How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go? It’s easy to mock Russia’s “Democratic” system.  But … y’know… this ad … Vote for Putin’s Party, why don’tcha?… we’ve seen dumber, have

  Fight Breaks out over new sneakers. Why North Koreans cry for their dear leader. Daily Kos defends Ron Paul’s Investments Knock away at this.  As the Ron Paul fans urge it has been settled 15 years ago, when no one ever heard of him.  if [Paul] wins the Iowa Republican Caucus vote on January [...]