News coming out of my state from The Post-Dispatch: Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is jumping the Obamamania bandwagon. Apparently the Obama campaign was courting her attention and even though she’d tried to stay neutral she just couldn’t say no. She’s got the FEVER! From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: McCaskill had intended to stay neutral in…

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Hillary Clinton, obvious high on confidence from winning New Hampshire, took on one of her many arch nemeses, Timmy “The Quote Machine” Russert on this Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC. For more see on the show and what was said see The Huffington Post and Politico’s accounts on the show. Man, how can one…

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It’s spreading! I’m going to try to keep abreast of all issues that are campaign ’08, especially the Democratic race because, seriously, who wants to get into that “Last Man Standing” / Battle Royale known as the Republican race. It’s like a demolition derby in there. I do enjoy how this is the darn nicest,…

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Apologies beforehand to anyone who doesn’t watch Grey’s … please, just look away. Read something about Barack Obama or Bill O’Reilly, or something. One. I miss Isaiah Washington. There. I said it. Two. What the hell with last night’s episode? Three. Why does (Grey’s creator) Shonda Rhimes hate women? Four. Can we get a hot…

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My sister, sister-of-black-snob, or SOBS, decided to share with me the horror that was the private island terror fortress wedding of the year. The marriage of Norbit and that girl from that was supposed to be in the Babyface video “My Kind of Girl” but got a cold and couldn’t be in the video but…

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I normally try not to rag on people’s religions as I wouldn’t want anyone raging on my lazy Judea-Christian, secular humanist upbringing. But for the life of me, I don’t understand the lure of Scientology, which after taking Chaka Khan and Issac Hayes it has now nabbed the most famous, blockbuster-esque non-threatening black dude in…

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Seriously. I mean it. They are idiots. I listened to CNN and MSNBC (and occasionally FOX) kvetch about Tuesday nights Obama v. Clinton, rumble in the Granite State action yesterday where they all pretended to live in this vacuum where everything they said about Clinton and Obama pre-Iowa no longer existed or mattered. I heard…

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