Friday LinkFrogging – 11/5/10

Bust it!How the hell did it get to be November already? Before you know it we'll be gorging ourselves on turkey. Then it will be Black Friday and that can only lead to Christmas. Wow. But I'm getting ahead of myself. This week we saw a typhoon of voter unhappiness turn control of the US …

Heritage Foundation: Tool of the Apocalypse

Please welcome to the GonzoGeek stage, everybody's favorite neocon thinktank, the Heritage Foundation. You might remember them as the folks who so long pursued a land military base in Iraq and finally found a stooge (W.) willing to implement the plan for them if only they'd give him some goodies. No? Well look it up. …

Queens NYC: A GOP Pagan

This guy, Dan Halloran, has received the GOPs blessing as its candidate for the District 19 city council seat in Queens, NY. He is not only a Pagan high priest, but a King in his faith: Theodism. Gods include Tyr, Odin, and Thor. Halloran is an attorney and partner at Palmieri, Castiglione  & Halloran and is also …

Sarah Palin: Go Gently Into That Good Nighto

So, it’s the holiday weekend and me and my in-laws are sitting around watching tv and we hear ‘…with 18 months to go in her term…’ accompanied by a photo of The Barracudinator or whatever they’re calling Gov. Palin these days. “What was that?” "Don’t know, try another station." We flip around and come to: …

Vote For The Worst: Bungles of the W. era

The fine folks over the Center for Public Integrity have put together a fun little way to revisit the disaster that has been the US executive branch for the past 8 years: you can rank W. and gang's biggest mistakes from a list of more than 100! I admire the work it must have taken to …

Colin Powell’s Obama endorsement: Transcript

I know it happened more than a week ago, but I thought posting this transcript could still add some value with one week to go before the elections. His reasoning is, and almost always has been, sound. I know both of these individuals very well now.  I've known John for 25 years as your setup …