Media Grab thinks he was way off, but Leaning Forward, whoah!

This guy (at about 1:07 in) looks pretty bad now. Then again, I can appreciate, it happens.

But occasionally, at least, Lean Forward was pretty funny.

What does Mr. Creepy do when he wakes up and see's Hillary Clinton?

If you've seen Mr. Creepy, perhaps after having a birthday celebration here, and he doesn't look the same as he used to, if he looks like he's seen his own death. This may have something to do with it.

Funniest thing we've seen in a while

At least that's my opinion. Sebby Man can be hard on Media Grab on and off-line occasionally, but Media Grab is tight, with this. S-man understands going negative. Sometimes you got to pee where you got to pee.

Sebby Snacks (following Sebby's puking up a whole bunch of that nasty ABC debate)

Sebby really has got to stop eating Big Media, it never goes down well.

1. Bi-Partisanship, that ever venerated ideal, died a long-predicted death this week, when Joe Lieberman made clear in no uncertain terms that he was really a Republican, so all of his "serious" and "responsible" bi-partisanship work with Republicans really stems from the fact that he is one. Of course, there's a chance that when the elections over and he needs to figure out a new way to get the camera on him, Joe (by then kicked out by a Democratic Senate caucus that doesn't need him) as a Republican will remember all the other issues besides the worst-foreign-policy-decision-in-the-nation's-history on which he actually agrees with the Democrats. Then Joe will be a bi-partisan Republican. That's what happens when you're political leanings go whichever way the camera turns.
   
2. Leaving now, will only lead to chaos and defeat, better to stay and win victory.
   
3. If you want to see the best band in America, tell me why this isn't where you should be May 13?
4. Forgetting Main Street Deli may now begin.
5. Campaign Finance Reform NOW!
   

Sebby Snacks (or previously known as "What SebMan is thinking)

1. Isn't the best way to describe the Administration's position on Iraq and troop withdraw the "Tiger/Bear by the ears" analogy ["Good thing is we've got the insurgents by the ears, bad news is we can't let them go"]. Maybe it's just me, I'm not a spokesperson for the "worst president in the history of the country." but it would seem like that's more straight forward than what we have right now.
   
   
2. To those among the Carolina "faithful" who feel Roy betrayed his Heels when he cheered Kansas to a National Title on Monday. Does this make you feel like a pathetic loser:
   
   

   That’s how he acted in 1993, when his Jayhawks lost to Dean Smith’s Tar Heels in the national semifinals. “Let’s stay in New Orleans and watch Coach Smith win another one,” he told Baldwin.

   That’s exactly what the pair did, with Williams feverishly waving a blue-and-white pom-pom from his seat in the Superdome. On the way out of the arena after Carolina’s win over Michigan, he stopped to buy a t-shirt for Scott and Kimberly–neither of whom had yet attended UNC–that read, “I was there in New Orleans,” along with the victorious Tar Heel score.

   “I’m pretty consistent,” he says. “My team lost to Carolina in 1993 and I stayed and supported Carolina. My team lost to Kansas in 2008 and I stayed and supported Kansas. I am who I am. I’m thankful that I am surrounded by people who understand how I am and support me no matter what, because I realize not everyone in the world falls into that category.”

   
   
   
3. Really, the folks that got mad over Roy's donning a decal really, really, really don't understand Carolina basketball. I'd be mad at the team for spotting Kansas 28 points, taking 24 of them back and then running out of gas, but then you see this sort of crap, (not the post, but the comments) and you think, hell, the team "May or may not have played with the energy they should have, but they completely outclassed these fools."
   
   
4. Hey look, the last politician in Washington to realize there's a mortgage foreclosure crisis has done it! And he's the Republican nominee! Gosh, you know, it's a little agressive, but maybe the lending industry could use a little investigation. Ya Think! It's like this wasn't caused by a bunch of lying borrowers and was really caused by the people who should have all the financial knowledge to nip "deceptive borrowing" in the bud.

Ahh, the apathy of 1996 - it's all coming back to me now

At some point I'll write more about why I've chosen to support Obama, and also the hurdles which for my vote Hillary had to overcome, and which instead she dug a trench beneath. For most of this time, my internal critique of Clintonism has been focused on how I felt around 2000, in the autumn of Clinton 1. At that time I was an alienated Democrat looking seriously at third party politics (at least until I heard Ralph Nader's justification for voting against Gore). But that was once the rightward drift of the Clinton years had driven me to act politically. This Mark Schmitt column (on the "now you don't see him, now she takes his advice" Hillary guru Mark Penn) reminds me how before I got mad about Clinton's triangulation, his first term made politics seem so useless and unappealing:

Clinton's bond with Penn, we're told, goes back to the 1995 to 96 period, when Dick Morris brought in Penn to help with President Clinton's reelection effort. While it was a success for the Clinton family, it was a dreary low point for the nation's politics: Voter turnout dipped below 50 percent for the only time ever in a presidential year, young people were completely disengaged, campaign finance scandals arose in part because politics was so uninspiring that no one would give except in exchange for favors, and the ambitions of the early Clinton years were abandoned for safe, symbolic gestures appealing to the middle-class swing voters -- "soccer moms" -- in a few swing states.

Ah, yes, that's were my goal to be a political science major went. True, I voted in 1996, but there was really nothing cool at all about politics when I was in college and no passion. I had come to college in 1992, passionate and very political, first seen a Democratic victory in Clinton's triumph of the old and very shortly thereafter ...I got nothing in me calling me to join in. Looking back now, what a moribund state of affairs that was. And what a different world it is today.

The Great State of Houston

SebMan and I were in Houston this weekend for the wonderful wedding reception of a wonderful friend.

Although I grew up in Texas, I lived on the North Side, aka Dallas-Fort Worth. I didn't get down to Houston much. Since most of my college friends live there now, I have gotten the chance to learn all kinds of things about it that I would never have known.

Two such examples:

the beer can house

the liquor store / gourmet food megamart Specs.

Aaaaand, I saw many-a Obama yard sign. I love North Cackalacky, but I might have considered Houston a living destination had these things been pointed out to me previously.