Author: cecil

  • It’s OK. Love the man.

    If you’re a Democrat, whatever your feelings about Howard Dean, it’s hard to watch this sequence and not, at least momentarily, love the man. Go on. Watch this video. I double-Democrat-dare you not to love him.

  • Bumblers

    Let me just say: if there’s indeed a so-called “War on Christmas”… …based on the number of lilting Christmas tunes I’ve been hearing in public places all around the liberal paradise that is my beloved Bay Area, the folks who are fighting in this particular conflagration — the anti-Christmas bridade — are a pack of…

  • wonderful

    what a lovely night to be a Democrat. I’m just sitting here, watching the proposition results come in over on the CA secretary of state’s site. And those two Ys have switched over to Ns. And we’ve got the floor all set up for a clean sweep. And there’s Virginia! What a great state, Virginia.…

  • In which I predict the future again!

    I predict that in just a few hours it will be proven once and for that I cannot in fact predict the future!

  • Sulu’s gay

    Although I was almost inappropriately delighted to learn today that Sulu is gay, I have to confess that I’m kind of irritated at the timing. I mean, yesterday Miers withdraws, then this morning, so-called “Scooter” Libby resigns. And now here comes George Takei, pushing those stories right off the front page.

  • In which I predict the future!

    Many years ago, before Seinfeld became a national Thing, I looked up one day and I said “I’m going to start watching Seinfeld.” And I didn’t just say this myself. I said it to other people too. For example, So-Called Bill. It didn’t make much sense at the time. And then that episode with the…