Keith Olbermann has slowly taken John McCain’s speech at the VFW (veterans of foreign wars) and deconstructed it. He has pulled McCain’s Iraq victory speech in 2003. This is the speech in which John McCain declared victory. We were done according to John McCain. McCain has called Barack Obama on shifting positions on Iraq but no one has been on both sides of the fence at the same time as well as Senator McCain. This is a very good special comment by Keith Olbermann. It should be mentioned that I cringe when I hear that someone is speaking to the ...

From the Weather Channel: Bringing heavy tropical rains and tropical storm-force winds, the first U.S. landfall of Tropical Storm Fay occurred Monday afternoon over Key West, Florida; a second landfall will occur Tuesday morning. A hurricane warning is now in effect for southwestern Florida while a tropical storm warning is in effect for the Florida Keys and the majority of Florida’s Atlantic coast. As of 11 pm EDT, Fay was located about 60 miles south of Naples, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour. Fay is moving to the north at 9 mph. This northward motion (perhaps slightly east ...

Some on the left object to the idea of Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana being chosen as running mate for Senator Barack Obama. The claim is that Mr. Bayh is a centrist, or within the context of the Democratic Party, on the right. Here is an account of votes Evan Bayh has made in the Senate.  Here is Senator Bayh’s Senate page. Here is Mr. Bayh’s official Congressional profile.    Here is a Chicago Tribune profile of Senator Bayh. I don’t object to Senator Bayh’s possible selection. I want to win the election. If the Obama campaign makes the call for Mr. Bayh, that’s fine by me.   Senator Bayh has ...

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I'm excited to be featured on Interviewing Authors. Here's what I have to say about myself:CA: What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?MC: Well, I like to call myself a ‘literary streetwalker with a heart of gold” meaning I usually write what folks – meaning publishers and editors -- want, which can mean anything from non-fiction to horror, from science fiction to humor, from advice columns to gay fiction, from blog stuff to smut, although most folk seem to want smut most of all. Not that I’m complaining, you understand: smut ...

I have talked about Jerome Corsi’s latest pack of lies, Obama Nation, on a couple of posts (here and here). Rachel Maddow hosts Countdown. She briefly discusses a couple of Corsi’s lies. She then discusses the Obama response with Democratic Strategist Chris Kofinis. ShareThis ...

Not much else needs to be said about Aretha Franklin. Respect. ShareThis ...

Today, I have decided that it would not be a good idea at all to renew my MobileMe account. I got it last year in August and after using MobileMe for about a year, I guess I just can’t see any logical reason to continue using it for my normal e-mail purposes. I am transferring [...] ...

I haven’t been to my UU church, First Unitarian Society of Denver in weeks. Furthermore, I have not even made an effort to try to go to any of the other UU churches in the Denver metro area (First Universalist, Jefferson Unitarian Church, Open Circle, UU Boulder, et cetra). However, I still identify as a [...] ...

A friend of mine mentioned Jerry Wexler to me. I said who? Here’s what he wrote me - Bad week for R&B, what with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler dying. Wexler was THE reason that Atlantic Records and Stax Records were different from Motown. Twenty essential Jerry Wexler recordings 1. Professor Longhair — “Tipitina” (1953) 2. Ray Charles — “I Got a Woman” (1954) 3. Big Joe Turner — “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954) 4. LaVern Baker — “Tweedlee Dee” (1954) 5. Champion Jack Dupree — “Junker’s Blues” (1958) 6. The Drifters — “There Goes My Baby” (1959) 7. Ray Charles — “What I’d Say” (1959) 8. Solomon ...

There are some topics that we can argue over until the sun runs out of hydrogen and never make any headway. Abortion is one of these topics. There is no use debating this topic. People have already made up their minds. The problem with John McCain’s position is that he would try to force all women to conform to his viewpoint. Women should be given the support and information necessary to make abortions truly a rare evident as Barack Obama said. ShareThis ...

Barack Obama did fantastic job in front of a relatively hostile audience. Pastor Rick Warren asks about his personal moral failures and what are America’s moral failures. Obama talks openly about his drug use when he was a youth. He also talks about America leaving those that are the least among us behind. It was a great answer. ShareThis ...

I watch swimming once every 4 years like most Americans. I have swam for exercise and I know how hard the sport is. Every athlete is in great condition. Michael Phelps has won 8 gold medals. This brings up the question that everyone has been asking or will ask, is Michael Phelps the greatest athlete of our time? ShareThis ...