One of the many joys of daily life in Bush’s America is that it’s pretty much impossible to taste all the many delicious flavors of utter and absolute crap the administration and its various lackeys, toadies, sycophants, lickspittles, and enablers keep dishing out. It’s like living in an especially stinky Baskin-Robbins that’s always open and only serves poop.

I guess I just assume everybody knows how horrible it is to get sick in George Bush’s America. I dashed off that post yesterday about the medical collection vultures at Grant & Weber because they had just called to hound me and I was pissed, I didn’t expect it to reverberate.

Given that it’s Labor Day weekend let’s have a chat about labor – organized labor. If you take a look at the map on your left something may jump out at you, as it did me. Where Labor is strong – Democrats tend to win. Where Labor is weak, they don’t.

The amazing speed with which the GOP hustled Larry Craig off the stage was pretty startling. Crooks and Liars has the video of his departure. The all-out effort to push him out stands in stark contrast not only to what happened with David Vitter but also the rash of other GOP miscreants and freaks who simply find Jesus and go on with business as usual until they are indicted.

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The amazing speed with which the GOP hustled Larry Craig off the stage was pretty startling. Crooks and Liars has the video of his departure. The all-out effort to push him out stands in stark contrast not only to what happened with David Vitter but also the rash of other GOP miscreants and freaks who simply find Jesus and go on with business as usual until they are indicted.

Julia digs up

(Please welcome candidate Barry Welsh, live from the Paradise Market in Indianapolis where he is blogging with Hoosier native Joh Padgett — JH)

Of all the solid, progressive candidates Blue America didn’t get around to endorsing last year, one of the ones that irked me the most was Indiana’s Barry Welsh, who I covered quite a bit at DWT but never got a chance to have on FDL.

I had to share this with you all as it is so very, very typical of how Republicans and conservatives argue.

I had made a post on my blog on the predictive powers of Al Gore, as noted by Robert Parry of The Consortium. (Parry’s also the main reason we know as much as we do about the Iran-Contra scandal — and that is most likely the reason he, who once

This is such a beautiful black and white shot, isn’t it?  And, beyond that, the woman in it is in amazing shape.  I can recall the days when I was this flexible and slender and healthy…and I miss them.

This week, I decided that it is well past time to kick my healthy habits up a few notches.  There is a yogalates class in my future, beginning this month.  Even though I