We explore the eternal question: What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
I’d mentioned before that the ideal movie night for progs and anti-Palin activists would be this:
Election
-followed by-
Jesus Camp
Now, if it so happens that you have time for a second movie night, I would recommend a viewing (or re-viewing) of There Will Be Blood. I saw this for the first time last week, and I was [...]
I said in my leading paragraph yesterday that I thought there was a lack of arrogance in the debate. I got that one wrong. There was plenty of arrogance in the repetitious ‘doesn’t understand’ talking point. Ugh. I saw the smirk video yesterday, just edits of J-Mc looking contemptuous. To [...]
Watched the debate last night. In terms of forcefully getting their ideas across, it was a tie, I felt. There’s a certain amount of partisan gamesmanship going on, saying McCain won, saying Obama won. Neither one put the knife in, though there were a few attempts. There was a good article in HuffPo, preceding the [...]
Hello and welcome to yet another new political blog. My pen name here is Jingo Killah.
Jingo is defined as “extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy” (OED). It was coined from a song from the 19th century:
We don’t want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the [...]