The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cBelieve It or Believe It - Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificatewww.thedailyshow.comhttp://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:382924Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on FacebookI'm not even going to go into Trump. If you support him on this one, well what starts with a 'ch' and rhymes with Trump? Yeah, that's what you'll be. I just want to know when did we become so bogged down with BS like this? Was it when we went 24/7 with the news? Is the internet to blame? Did the Lewinsky mess just catapult us over into full-time "we need a scandal" mode and establish a new realm of disrspect for the President and its office? We can't have things both ways. We can't demand … [Read more...]
Charlie Sheen, Gadaffi and G.O.B. Bluth
Last night as H and I were having a bit of uninterrupted conversation I said to him, "You know I had a moment yesterday in the car where I realized that the more I hear Charlie Sheen and Gadaffi speak, the more they sound the same."It's true.One gives three hour speeches just to hear himself speak. The other has an endless twitter stream that can't be stopped. Both make no sense to anyone but their delusional selves. Gadaffi says things that make me have a Seth and Amy moment a la SNL's 'Weekend Update'. For instance stating that the people of Libya are fine and love him. Revolts? What revolts? No problems to speak of here. Um, "REALLY Gadaffi? REALLY?!"Charlie Sheen, Gadaffi and G.O.B. Bluth they are all starting to sound the same (yeah that … [Read more...]
Open Your Ears & Minds. It’s Your Country at Stake.
Reprinted from DC Metro Moms. It's part two in my week long social/social media experiment. Results are forthcoming.January, 1961 John F. Kennedy asked the following question during his inaugural address, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." Forty-nine years later the same question is still being asked. Not by a President this time but by our very own citizens of this great country.Looking back, I find it interesting to note that Kennedy proposed this during the early sixties. Times were indeed a'chan-gin' and it would give way to less of the "greatest generation's" mindset of service and being bound to our communities but to the "me" generation, the 1970s and 80s, a time full of self-fulfillment, … [Read more...]
I Have Issues
Clearly, I have issues. I realized this at two different times today. First, I yelled at the gym television that was playing Fox "news". I yelled, "Shut the F*ck up! You are so IGNORANT!" I mumbled something about "fallacies, bad research and fair and balanced my ass" when I realized that my right hand was extending and giving Fox the bird. It seems I have some built up testosterone in my system this week. The cold that has be flagging has also taken me away from any gym time. I didn't make it to kickboxing. I haven't gone on any runs either. The idea of Body Pump or Boxing is just laughable. I kept thinking if I just took it easy, as much as you can with two small kids, I would feel better. The. Cold. Is. Still. … [Read more...]
Your Mom’s a Dork
While making dinner the other night I was simultaneously finally getting around to watching the HBO mini-series about John Adams. Just into the first disc and rummaging through the pantry TD caught me off guard. Coming to my side, she asked, "Momma? Momma! What is wrong? Why are you crying?" I looked at her as I wiped a tear away and took a deep, cleansing breath and said, "Oh it's nothing, TD. Your Mom is just a giant dork. A giant dork who gets really into history. The Revolution, the sacrafice, the birth of our nation, all of it." I sighed again as I thought about how our world has changed since Adams time. Tom Wilkinson plays Ben Franklin and he states, "It is no small thing to build a new world."Is that what we are doing once … [Read more...]
Civics 101, Please.
Come closer. Closer. That's it. Now, let me school ya on something. Obama? You know, that man that was elected President? He's been in office for a little over 320 days now and he hasn't accomplished ANYTHING, has he? Geezy-peets! No, he hasn't. It's all I hear, all the time. It makes me "smash your forehead into a hard surface" angry. I want to ask them if they thought Obama would pay off their mortgage or car loan too when he was elected into office. Oh wait. They didn't vote for him. That's what it is. Fine. That's fine. That doesn't bother me. To each their own. What gets me it is that no one seems to remember Civics 101. Like I said in 'I Am Not Un-American', things do not happen over … [Read more...]
Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.- Mark TwainDo I mean any disrespect when I quote Mark Twain. Discuss in the comments. Really. I want to hear your thoughts on our current national situation. … [Read more...]
Randomness #234
According to a recent survey conducted between November and February on Twitter (so you know it's scientiftastically reliable) people have been swearing more since the recession. Huh. If swearing weren't so uncouth I would probably add a pleasant MoFo and SOB/Whore into almost every sentence. Can't help it, I admit to liking the sailor talk.When I was a kid I liked to watch Mark Russell on PBS. I'm quite sure my parents feared playground beatings on a daily basis. As it was no one would share a locker with me because of my political dorkiness.Kiddie spas annoy me like a sharp piece of barbed wire stuck in my craw. When I pass by the one at my local mega-shopping-plex I want to picket it and/or grab the girls inside and teach them about self-worth being about more than your complexion and … [Read more...]
Overheards- The Inaugural Edition
Scene: The darkened den of our house. H and I are watching the Golden Globes (shocking, I know. I can hardly believe he was there myself!) and yet another commercial for the upcoming inauguration flashes across the screen.H: Isn't the inauguration next Tuesday? Me: Yeah, I know. I keep thinking it's this week the way people are talking about it and promoting it. It's driving me crazy.H: That's it! I'm done. I'm over it. Enough. I'm officially sick of the hype. I mean, just get your cardboard box of photos, turn on the light in the Oval Office and get to work already.Don't get me wrong, we're excited and all that but if you lived here you would feel like the four walls were closing in on you too. Our roads are being closed down. School is canceled and none of our bridges will be … [Read more...]
Toddler Crack and More
"See my nipples? See my nipples? OH! Where did my nipples go?!" TD says all this as she toodles on by on her tricycle at barely 7 a.m. in the morning.I'm not sure I'm ready for this type of conversation this early in the morning.Now she's fallen over from trying to shove a ball under her shirt.Obviously she has gone to the OB/GYN a few times with me recently because I don't think that 'Super Why' is teaching her this stuff. Somehow I can't see Alpha Pig spelling out the word nipples.Last night she had a mock-a-rita. Can we say someone is missing drinking at almost 8 months in? This thing consisted of lime-ade, lemon-lime soda and strawberries. I have never given this kid soda before and now I can see it will never be happening again. After sucking every ounce she could out of her glass and … [Read more...]