Testing, 1, 2, 3...

We're experimenting. 

Live-Blogging the Oscars: For Funzies

Switching to new stuff at the top, for your pleasure...

                                  

Live Blogging the Mid-Terms, Part II: When Doves Cry

When doves cry, y'all. - M

Nate Silver Swears It's Gonna Be an Upset... Live-Blogging the Midterms

Live-bloggy blog.... La La La...

(We're starting at 7pm)

We're Still on Haitus

Hi.

Mandi and I have been busy with real life for quite some time.  We're thinking about coming back intermittently.  But in the meantime, please enjoy our past work, and we will get around to curating that over time :-)

Thanks!

Emily

What I Learned from the Crazy Shutdown

1. They (Tea Party "Conservatives") Learned Nothing.

Just Watch This

I could not say it better, this is perfection:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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On Losing

So this one is about why Republicans on the Hill are acting the way they are acting right now.  

I worked on the Hill for years.  Specifically, for years I worked on the Hill as a Democrat in a government ruled entirely by Republicans.  For years.  

Would You, Could You, in a Fauxlibuster?

GOP 2016 Primary Math

1. Hey, we should NOT do public primary debates again, because that was some public Cray-Cray last time, huh?

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Girls

A few brief recent observations about girls and how we raise them...

"Cheer Up, Donkey!" Follies

So these scandals (real and totally trumped up alike), and a general sense of foreboding at the likely results from uber-gerrymandering of the House for the foreseeable future have left me in my political sad place.





I need a pick-me-up.  You probably do, too.


Here are some things to cheer us up...

I'll Give You A Conspiracy Theory

Senator Inhofe wants to limit the purchases by the U.S. Government of ammunition based on a whacked-out conspiracy theory that the government is buying up all the ammo.  The NRA said this was not true.

The NRA.

I have now had it with the crazed "government is coming to get us" thing from people who claim to be patriots.

It's dangerous to gin up people who are already prone to believe the worst of the government and whose common denominator is a love for weapons.  It's bizarre for a Senator in a representative democracy to demonize the government.

Hey, Conspiracy Brother Senator ("climate change is a hoax!" "they're coming to get your ammo!"), you want a conspiracy theory?

10 Things That 90 Percent of Americans Agree On

Color me angry.  The Senate is about to fail to pass even the compromise version of legislation to improve background checks for gun purchases.

Sen. Joe Manchin tells me "we will not get the votes today" expanded background checks to fail in Senate. Try again he says.
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) April 17, 2013

                                                         

So as a sort of follow-up to my "10 Things That Are More Regulated Than Guns" post, I decided - on this day of the Senate vote on a compromise, bi-partisan, non-universal background check bill - to take a look at some things that are as popular with Americans as universal background checks for gun purchases...

Leaders Wanted. Apply Within.

                                                          

"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."