Obama Inauguration - Today Is A Great Day

President Barack Obama did not disappoint in his speech at his inauguration this morning. If you didn't see it, here it is:



Oh, and I found it somehow appropriate that they had to cart Cheney out of the White House in a wheelchair. Good riddance to that regime. We'll be undoing its numerous fuck ups for decades.

Wassup with Change?

Let's hope the new dude can meet our high expectations.

Election Day

Let's hope it's clear and decisive with no opportunity for challenges and ambiguity over results. This has gone on long enough.

Tina Fey on Conan O'Brien

I didn't catch this live but it's a pretty funny interview. Among other things, Fey talks about meeting Sarah Palin on the set of SNL and how Palin offered up her pregnant 17 year old daughter to babysit Fey's 3 year old backstage during the show! Enjoy.

Part One


Part Two

Sarah Palin On SNL

Sarah Palin showed up in a couple of segments on Saturday's SNL. Pretty funny opening section. She didn't really even need to be in the second, way more biting piece. But hey, whatever. Was it funny? You betcha! Two more weeks of this shite and hopefully we'll have all of this campaign crap behind us and some clear direction ahead.

Letterman Grills McCain

Thankfully someone can cajole McCain into sort of admitting that the "Obama pals around with terrorists" bullshit is indeed, political bullshit. This is almost cringe inducing:



For a complete transcript of the interview, go here.

Rolling Stone Has Format Makeover

Got my Rolling Stone in the mail yesterday and thought it was a Nordstrom catalog for my wife! The publishers have shrunk the magazine size from the 10-by-12-inch size they have been using since the early 80s, to a standard magazine format.

Unlike many of the other print publications dying on the vine, RS added more pages to accommodate the same amount of content and ads. And they put Obama on the cover for the third time in the last six months.

I have subscribed off and on since the mid 80s and have a love-hate with the magazine. As liberal as I am, even I have to question the tone of some of their political coverage. And I get sick of some of the new music and fashion fads they feel that they need to cover to sell to the newer generation.

But like SNL, RS has been around so long, it's an institution all its own. I have to say, I like the new format. It's fresh and doesn't take away from the content. Most importantly, I'll be reading that Obama interview. One thing is that RS usually asks pretty good questions in their interviews.

And speaking of Ringo Starr (non sequitur), he has gone off the deep end yet again with this bizarre video on his site, telling people not to send items for autographs anymore.

Well, as of October 20. You still have time to get something in the mail people!

WTF? Why October 20? Why so grumpy, Ringo?

3rd Time's a Charm - SNL Debate Parody

You can set your watch to the predictability of SNL parodying the debates (although they have this Saturday off, I hear). This one is much longer than the others but no less spot on. Props to Queen Latifa as moderator Gwen Ifill. Enjoy:

SNL Does It Again

Tina Fey came back to SNL again this weekend to take on the role of Sarah Palin. Not quite as hilarious as her first appearance, but it beats working!

Can't wait for next weekend after the VP debate. I think they will have a number of soundbites to parody, from both sides.

This will get your day off to a fun start:

Funny McCain - Palin Photos

So, this is not out of any kind of mean-spirited anti McCain stuff. After hearing his speech, I continue to like him as a person and respect his service. I just don't think his politics (and especially Palin's) are right for the country, or for me personally.

So in the spirit of having a good laugh, check out this litany of "art" created by people with nice senses of humor and too much time on their hands.

Check it here.

Isorski Digs Politics

Actually, I don't. I have religiously avoided the TV news for more than eight years, mostly in revulsion over our current regime (Bush) - watching the news makes me too angry.

But you pretty much can't avoid it these days with the lengthy lead up to the recent Democratic and Republican conventions, and those events themselves.

I have avoided turning this blog into a political forum and I also generally avoid any discussion of politics and religion. But today I feel like I just have to. The sickening display at the Republican Convention has made me too angry to stay quiet.

McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as VP has raised all sorts of interesting issues but at the core, he chose about the rightest-wing person he could find, and this is being overlooked by those who would rather focus on the fact that she is a woman, that her 17-year old daughter is knocked up, how will she raise five kids (one with Downs) as VP, and then as president once four-time cancer survivor McCain kicks off.

CNN contributor Hilary Rosen said it best in a column today. I urge you to read it, and please, come November, do not give the Republicans another four years. They have done enough damage in the last eight, haven't they? Obama will do just fine. Plenty of solid presidents have started with minimal experience, and just because you have experience doesn't make you a good president!

I don't care about how Sarah Palin or John McCain take care of their families. I care about how their policy choices affect my family and millions of other Americans.

McCain and Palin get their health insurance paid for by the government (hers in Alaska and his in Washington). Yet they oppose giving the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans the same access to affordable health care.

John McCain's kids don't have to worry about paying for college. Yet he has opposed every single education support program to help others.

McCain and Palin say they will stand up to oil companies. Yet the only energy policy they support gives millions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies to do more drilling and he has opposed every piece of federal legislation to explore alternative fuel sources.

McCain and Palin say they will revamp how Washington does business. Yet his campaign is filled with lobbyists and she has cooperated with Sen. Ted Stevens in funneling federal money for useless projects in Alaska for years. And McCain and Palin have no solutions for Americans worrying about their jobs in a fragile economy.

McCain and Palin want us to leave their families alone. Yet they want to make rules for our families by eliminating our right to make our own choices over abortion, eliminate our access to family planning education or domestic partner benefits, and our freedom from discrimination.

They want to control what our kids learn in school about sex and about science. In short, through the policies they promote and the judges they support, they want the government to have more control over our private lives than at any time in history.

McCain and Palin now say their campaign is about change, too. Yet the only real change they have proposed is a change from a suit to a skirt in the vice president's office and one man fighting a misplaced war for another in the Oval Office.

That seems to me to be the right reason to oppose them in November. It's not the process or the people, it's what they represent. This unconventional choice of a vice presidential nominee by John McCain won't result in a win in November, because McCain and Palin are the wrong choice for the country.