‘SalmonSpartan’ Archives
Daily Left 3-9-10
In by miles the best news of the day, Rush Limbaugh might be moving to Costa Rica! If health care reform passes, Limbaugh will be so offended that he will just have to leave the country. Let's hope for a solar flare to muck up radio transmission the day he moves. Rham-bo isn't going anywhere (thank god), and he's still on the warpath. I'll Let [...]
Daily Left 2-26-10
To all of our readers (and really the staff, too), I'm starting today with an apology. For the last few weeks, I've been absent on the site, and that's not what I was brought in to do. The Daily series is the staple of the site, and my falling behind is an all to often nuisance. That said, job changes, helping open a new magazine and family health [...]
Daily Left 2-5-10
Unemployment drops below 10% for the first time in four months, but economists are still nervous. Scott Brown is seated a week early, pissing Patrick Kennedy right off. I'll let him say it for himself; “Seven out of ten of Brown's voters were labor households and he stressed that he was independent. And while he was originally scheduled to [...]
Daily Left 2-4-10
The pull to the right by the right is beginning with John McCain. McCain is being attacked on "soft" stances on immigration and spending. If McCain looses the primary, what does that say for the GOP? That the difference between the GOP and Conservative movement is widening, or the the Conservatives are just as disinterested in "populist rage" and [...]
Daily Left 1-28-10
Ben Bernanke gets a second term, by a vote of 70-30. Immigration reform to return to the national forefront? If it does, California is back in the middle, with a "proud racist" in the line of fire. At least someone is being honest. State of the Union drama erupts, as Justice Alito's little nonverbal retort overruns the internet today. A [...]
Daily Left 1-27-10
While it's not exactly the kind of news we normally cover here, it's the biggest news on the internet. Apple has introduced the iPad. I'm not even totally sure what it does, but I want one. Remember the guys who pulled the pimp scheme on ACORN? They're back, and this time they're looking at jail time. Turns out breaking into an elected [...]
Daily Left 1-22-10
Republicans- hold your horses. I know it's nice to have a seat in New England, and the Democrats are no longer filibuster proof, but the GOP still gets approval from less then a third of Americans, and you're on the verge of broke. No less then 50 of the Gitmo detainees cannot be released, and we still don't know where the rest would go. [...]
Daily Left 1-21-10
The President wants to prevent the banks from getting to big. More on this as specifics emerge. All we know right now is it won't be Glass Stegall, only revoked in '99, and it supposedly won't have an effect on free speech. The result? The DOW drops 300 points in two days, and the punches start flying against everything Obama has (or hasn't) [...]
Daily Left 1-20-10
Happy Anniversary, Mr. President. Let's hope this year goes a little smoother. The Washington Post, specifically Harold Meyerson agrees. Health care reform has 48 hours to live, and top Democrats, including Barney Frank, are saying we should just watch it die. That fast. One seat changes hands and the most aggressive proponents of reform [...]
Daily Left 1-19-10
As I write this, it's just about six p.m., mountain time, and there is still no winner in Massachusetts. I'll be checking throughout the night for a winner, should she emerge. Well, shit. Best of luck to the new senator. More polls say that Obama remains likable, but unpopular. I read one of these most days, and I'm beginning to wonder [...]
Daily Left 1-18-10
First and foremost, happy Martin Luther King Jr. day. I think it's hard for people my age to really think about life before his work, but reminding us how much America can change for the better never seems like a bad idea in my mind. Scott Brown calls the president a bastard! Literally. On national television. Link below. Scott Brown on [...]
Daily Left 1-7-10
Obama on the attempted Christmas bombing- "The buck stops with me." Gay Marriage fails in New Jersey, by a vote of 20-14. Former New York mayor Ed Koch on the rest of the world? "Of course the vast majority of Muslims, there are 400 million, are not terrorists. But there are hundreds of millions who are. They want to kill every [...]
Daily Left 1-5-10
The much lauded Obama-anti-terrorism sit down yields literally nothing but a big "oops?", as President Obama makes as general a claim as possible, saying "We have to do better, and we will do better and we have to do it quickly." The way the press hyped this conversation almost makes me laugh, but here I am, writing about it now. Maybe we [...]
REPOST- The Real Green Initiative
The BBC and NPR have been launching a series or articles based of the pros and cons of going vegetarian these last few weeks, with roughly a month more to come. That said, I've opted to re-post an old piece of mine that closely follows the topic. With the release of Jonathan Safron Foers new book, Eating Animals it seems timely enough. Last [...]
Daily Left 1-1-10
First and foremost, happy new year! My resolution is to even more finely hone my craft of pissing off Republicans, to the point of doing so daily, with an op-ed a week. Iraq returns fire on Blackwater, even if it's just in the courtroom. This reminds me of the time I almost got in a bar fight with a Blackwater "employee". I'm not joking about [...]
Daily Left 12-22-09
Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) will be trading sides of the aisle over health care. It's his first year, and he's not a senator, so you can keep him. We still have Snowe and Collins. Health Care reform trudges along, with a second vote due today. The biggest attackers to health care reform? Liberals, of Firedoglake, doing epic battle with other [...]
The Real Green Initiative
Last week, President Obama told the world he was looking for advice from “Democrat, Republican or vegetarian”, in yet another plea to gain support across the aisle, plausibly for his filibuster proof green machine. This may seem like a throw-away reference, and I’m fairly sure it was, but the idea of Obama actually giving some thought to [...]
One For You, One For Me
After a brief look around the site, I decided that we could handle a little more zazz. Bruce Lee is a good start, but how about a little imagery from everyones favorite series of tubes.
