I got an e-mail "action alert" today from the American Family Association urging me to think bad thoughts about the Campbell Soup people and then, by God, do something about it, because they refuse to "remain neutral" on gay marriage.
After sending your e-mail, please call Campbell Soup Company (1-800-257-8443) and their Swanson division (1-800-442-7684) and express your disappointment that Campbell's is supporting same-sex marriage.
When those three auto executives flew in their private jets to Washington to beg for a handout, it immediately became a symbol -- of arrogance to some, of being out of touch with ordinary life to others. Now we have our own symbol in Indiana:
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Bumped his head and he went to bed
and he couldn't get up in the morning
Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day.
If we get any more precipitation metaphors from the General Assembly, we're all going to feel like we've bumped our head. Here are the boys arguing about whether to spend the money the state has held in reserve:
Any politician who tries to govern by public opinion poll is an idiot. Even assuming the polls are accurate, which can be a dangerous thing to do, people often don't know what they want, or they want contradictory things, or they want one thing one day and something else the next. Consider this Indiana University poll about public education:
Wonkette takes on Maureen Dowd, and it's no contest:
To Maureen Dowd, the problem is not that Senate seats have been traded back and forth between the same four or five families for the past hundred years, it's that Caroline Kennedy hasn't gotten one yet.
I'm very tired now. I think I'll lie down and have a nice nap. Maybe things will look better tomorrow:
A new Congressional Budget Office forecast due out Wednesday is expected to put the fiscal 2009 deficit at about $1 trillion, more than double the $438 billion in red ink CBO foresaw in September.
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"Potentially we've got trillion-dollar deficits for years to come, even with the economic recovery that we are working on at this point," Mr. Obama said.
Here's a litle quiz. The Army, Navy, Aif Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are five of the seven uniformed services of the United States. What are the other two?
(If you want to give yourself a time limit, click here.)
The best lie of the year, as chosen by the Burlington Liars Club:
"My grandson is the most persuasive liar I have ever met. By the time he was 2 years old he could dirty his diaper and make his mother believe someone else had done it."
The club also named six runners-up but no honorable mention. For that, just fill in anything any politician has said in the last day or two.
A member of the Bush household even the most hardened liberals should have some sympathy for:
The Bushes' 18-year-old female black American Shorthair died Sunday at home in the Executive Mansion.
Named by a then-9-year-old Barbara Bush, the cat, who was also called "Kitty" by the family, was given the name "India" after the former Texas Ranger baseball player, Ruben Sierra, who was called El Indio.
For the "anything can happen" file:
