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We just noted how Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate have fled the state, throwing a temporary spike in plans by that state’s Republican governor to end collective bargaining by Wisconsin employees. But as our friends at the Washington Post report, there’s an additional dimension to the story worth talking about: For the past four […]

(This sounds like the work of the dastardly “rogue staffer.”   – promoted by Colorado Pols) if, you know, you HAVE a Brazilian assclown legislator (from Reuters) A clown who won a seat in Brazil’s Congress by a landslide has stayed true to his former profession by accidentally messing up his first vote. Francisco Everardo […]

It’s always nice for a little levity on a Friday, and this video at least mentions a political story. One of the great lines in television history was uttered yesterday on CNN: “We didn’t just put that on TV, did we?” Oh, you did indeed sir. You did, indeed. (h/t to Deadspin)

(Another episode of Law and Order.  In the criminal Justice System the people are served by two classes of people — the Police, who investigate crimes, and the District Attorneys, who in this case, at least, are accused of commiting them… DOINK DOINK – promoted by Voyageur) Or maybe he is. Seventh Judicial District DA […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) This news is from the county (and town) where my parents live: A sheriff’s deputy in Adair County, Kentucky, was looking around a new county judicial center, when he accidentally locked himself in a jail cell. It gets worse because the deputy suffers from claustrophobia. His boss says the […]

(Let’s take a schadenfreude break – promoted by Colorado Pols) For a distraction… At least four staffers with significant political portfolios have left Congressman Joe Sestak’s (D-7) Senate campaign in recent weeks, potentially leaving the Democratic challenger at an organizational deficit just three months before the primary, pa2010.com has learned. And then… J.J. Abbott, a […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) He denied playing footsie with Mazzeo under the table because, he said, he was wearing cowboy boots. That’d be Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada), who laid bare the embarrassing details of his life in a lengthy deposition taken by a lawyer representing Chrissy Mazzeo. The Las Vegas cocktail waitress has […]

(Start melting grandma’s old jewelry! – promoted by Colorado Pols) I’ve never written one of these before, but this seems to fit the bill. South Carolina State Representative Mike Pitts (R) has introduced a bill that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South […]