Yeah, I did it.  I listened.   Sarah Palin stumping for Michele Bachmann. Dueling Dingbats (to borrow a reference from Congressman Alan Grayson).  And I lived to tell the tale. This is by no means a thorough synopsis of the event.  There were several speakers I didn’t listen to.  You can imagine me periodically ripping the [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made good on her promise to put congressional spending records online for the first time ever.  Score one for transparency in government! As long as a Representative stays within the guidelines, they have broad latitude about how to spend their alloted money.  At first glance the report is a bit overwhelming, [...]

This is not a joke….I repeat, this is not a joke.  Not satire.  No Steven Colbert popping in at the end.  No Onion.  No Andy Borowitz.  And yet, I couldn’t watch it without laughing.  All it needs at the end is the Capitol Building blowing up in a giant red fireball, and Bachmann, Palin and a [...]