Mutiny On The Bunny starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. This Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon was released on February 11, 1950.

I have to say: to every English dear friend, polite acquaintance, or total prick, with whom I have ever had a soccer program related activity discussion, ha ha ha. Because (checking final score) oh yeah, you didn’t win by 400+ in the first minute. Of course this result totally makes us forgive you limey bastards [...]

During New Orleans’ monthly art walk, the newly formed Krewe of Dead Pelicans staged their first parade through Julia Street, New Orleans’ gallery district, to mourn and protest the BP oil spill. Traditionally krewes parade for Mardi Gras, itself a final celebration before the sorrow of the Lenten season. The KoDP was organized by real estate agent and carnival costume designer Ro Meyer in late May, as an outlet for frustration about the BP oil disaster.

Apparently, the Brits are calling Americans — including President Obama — xenophobic for referring to the company shitting up our Gulf as “British Petroleum.” So for this installment of my now-regular reflection on how, fifty-some years ago, we overthrew a democratically-elected government for that company shitting up our Gulf, I’m going to call it the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

I’m still reasonably certain that the selection of Alvin Greene over an almost equally unknown former state legislator in the South Carolina Senate Democratic primary can be explained by a combination of factors and not a conspiracy. However, I’m becoming less and less certain about that when I read more about the raw totals in [...]

General Stanley McChrystal’s getting hit for switching up his plan to secure the city of Kandahar. So it feels like a response when he says that his responsibilities include “listen[ing] closely” to Afghans and “adapt[ing] constantly.”

The Anti-Saloon League pushed the 18th Amendment, Prohibition, by wielding power and scaring politicians, a lesson interest groups could use today. In Part 3 of this 4-part series, we look at embracing “strange bedfellows” to develop a critical mass of power in order to make change happen.

[Welcome Author and Journalist, Rita Cosby, and Host Dennis Showalter, Professor, History, Colorado College] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread. - bev] Quiet Hero: Secrets from My Father’s Past “I know my dad was in the war, but I only began [...]

What should alarm people is that this is the state of the South Carolina Democratic Party, a party which grew during the early 2008 primary elections but which clearly has not kept any contact with those new voters. No legitimate party should allow something like this to happen, and it says more about how illegitimate the SC Dems have become in just a couple years.

I’ve been wondering why the Obama White House would agree to have the President of the United States meet with a group of BP executives who may eventually face potential criminal investigations. In other news, it seems JP Morgan is BP’s largest shareholder.