Minneapolis, Minnesota’s City Pages published a letter to recently resigned state Senator Amy Koch. Koch, resigned after an affair with a male staffer. Koch was deeply involved in the fight to put a Constitutional Amendment before Minnesota to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Today I am inspired by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner’s tirade against Michelle Obama’s temerity to say to the nation, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t shove EVERYTHING down our fat gobs and maybe exercise every now and then.” His defense? “She has a large posterior.” Yup, he went to “she got a big ass” as his go to point.
Sour cream or apple sauce, that is the question:
Whether ’tis to eat our latkes milchigs* or fleishigs**.
For with applesauce they are parve*** and we may enjoy them
And it matters not what we have alongside,
Then we may have pizza or steak with our latkes,
Although we may not have both of them together.
But when we choose sour cream,
Our die is cast,
Latkes become milchigs,
And we may enjoy steak with them no more.
This question is existential,
And yet it is rarely asked.
We go through the remainder of the year,
Never asking how we will eat our latkes,
For many of us the die is cast by heritage
How to eat our latkes being a tradition spanning generations.
Whether we eat sour cream or apple sauce,
That question was answered by our great-grandparents’ great-grandparents.
We just carry on the traditions,
How best we can,
And we hope to pass those traditions on to future generations.
Tonight, and for the next eight days,
We face that question.
We shall light candles,
We shall sing songs,
We shall spin our dreidels,
We shall eat our gelt,
We shall gorge ourselves on our latkes.
The only question is:
Shall we have sour cream or apple sauce while we do so?
The death of Christopher Hitchens is a loss to the world of letters for, as the many eulogies over the last week have proven, he was clearly a stylish writer, a fantastic orator, and from the accounts of those who knew him, a voluble, generous and compassionate friend.
But as the last line of Some Like It Hot makes clear: “No-one is perfect.” Given that Hitchens never stood on ceremony, and was a great slayer of sacred cows, it wouldn’t be fitting to note his passing without decrying one of his more otiose and unfortunate legacies: as the inventor and populariser of the term Islamofascism.
In other words, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il has died. Dead. Bought farm, bit dust, cashed in, shuffled coil, croaked, given up the ghost, dirt nap, big sleep, teats up, sleeping with fishes, joined the choir invisible, pushing daisies, belly up, departed, boarded death’s little black train, danced last dance, worm food dead.
…and the world just got a little bit better for it. Is the heir equally as squirrel-turd nutty as Dear Leader? I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Jump the flip for some lulz trivia about Kim Jong-il. Otherwise, it’s an OPEN THREAD, so knock yourself out.
This is a part of a series of posts analyzing the 2010 midterm elections. This post will focus on the Illinois Senate election, in which Republican candidate Mark Kirk pulled out a close Republican victory in a strongly Democratic state.
Illinois’s Senatorial Election
More below.
MOOOOOOOSE
Ok so I’m becoming addicted to Twitter. The thing that so fascinated me about the internet when I first achieved high speed access was the ability to almost instantly talk to mega watt smart people. I chat with people from Astrophysicists to The Rev. Al Sharpton who read my tweet on the air Friday regarding Black conservatives.
@TheRevAl a Black man voting conservative in this day and age is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders #southernstrategy
Heh, Anyhow as I jumped into the Twitterpool I pretty much rushed to follow opinion makers etc. from my side of the political spectrum I could think of but there were a few people who were pretty much always on my follow list and one was The Angry Black Lady. http://www.angryblacklady.com/ A person I’ve pretty much always read from that magical high speed days, but more than that despite her name and reputation a truly sweet person who provided support for me when I got the ban hammer from the DK.
So anyway I’m following Nicole Sandler for the above reason and she’s going all in on the recent Defense Authorization. Now I will admit and would have that I replied initially to the wrong tweet. The tweet I meant to respond to actually asked the question am I wrong. Anyhow it appears the ole Moose don’t want to embed the chirp story so here’s a link http://chirpstory.com/li/3462
You know what’s funny? Had she not feigned ignorance of the English language at the start and merely stated the analogy hurt her feelings I would have apologized immediately. I would have tripped on how a public figure gets so angry at being called colorfully wrong, but they don’t call them the “professional left” for no reason do they?
Look what I can do
Lets have some music
Oh and if you need to know exactly how I feel about the NDAA http://www.angryblacklady.com/… found this dude on the twitters too!!
I’m an unabashed liberal, and I’ve got a gun. Two, in fact. And one of them is a real prize.
‘Twasn’t always thus. I grew up and have lived most of my life in a weaponless family and friends milieu where gun ownership was not only nonexistent but often held in contempt. I continue to regard parts of the American gun world with dismay.
And yet, here I am today, owner of two pistols and member of the local fish and game club.
Yesterday I had to deposit some cash at the bank. Nothing huge, but every dollar counts these days, right?
The only problem was, not all the bills were recognized, and it pretty much illustrates the problems we face right now, not just in our everyday business, but the overall economy as well.
Be strong, my brothers and sisters.
