Well, it’s Thursday again, and it’s supposed to be damn near 70 degrees here today, which is pretty amazing for halfway through November.  Our new Governor was in town yesterday, to reaffirm his campaign commitment to put money into revitalizing Upstate NY.  I certainly hope it happens, and winds up being more than just a big money grab for a bunch of crooked developers.  We’ll see what happens, I guess, but we’ll all be a lot better off when George Pataki is finally, officially, gone.  Oh well, a lot to do today, so I guess I better get on with it.

I was reading Atrios and Kos yesterday, and apparently they’re both in a bit of a snit because some folks have questioned Kos’ placement of a Chevron ad on his site. This has come up before – last time it was over having an ad from a fake grassroots organization opposed to Net Neutrality. Personally, I use FireFox with AdBlock, so I don’t even see the ads they run, but it’s always fun to see them get bummed because they don’t like it when people complain to them about it. They certainly have a right to grub money from anybody that will give it to them, and they can post ads for porn, Ovaltine, or even Wendy freakin’ Friesen for all I care. But, geez, do you have to whine about it when people disagree with you?

Here, we subscribe to the BuzzFlash principle, in that there are no ads. Of course, that may have a lot to do with the fact that nobody actually wants to advertise here, but I’d prefer to think that it’s because we’re ideologically pure. I issue a challenge to some wealthy wingnut out there to offer me a few million bucks to post a banner ad. Just watch how fast I turn you down.

One or the other of them – I think it was Atrios – got himself all buggered up over getting too much crap e-mail a while back, too. I guess everybody under the sun adds him to their conspiracy theory e-mail lists and tells him – dammit – he’s not writing about what they want him to write about. While I can sympathize with that, well, sorry, but that’s the price for being a blogstar. Those regular gigs on the Sam Seder show don’t come for free, you know.

Anyhow, have a happy hump day.

Ah, poor Rummy. Not only is he out on his ass, but he had to cancel his trip to Germany in February to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy, what with that pesky old war crimes complaint in the German courts against him, and his being currently under investigation by the federal prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe. Well, maybe he can hang out and drink Schnapps with Henry Kissinger, and reflect upon the irony of being too big of a war criminal to go back to the Fatherland. Ach du liebe Zeit!

Nice to hear that Marc likes Seditionist Radio, but don’t forget that the bits in rotation are all courtesy of the hard work that Patrick and his band of merry elves over at thesnotgreensea have put in collecting the funny, and of course mainly to all the talented writers that contributed to Morning Sedition and The Marc Maron Show.

Well, it’s Monday again. Yep, sure is. That’s all I got.

Another Sunday, and, in spite of everything, the boobleheads are back to pick up right where they left off.

On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead has “two key leaders of the new, closely-divided Senate,” Chipmunk Cheeks McCain, and Joe “the fuck” Lieberman.  You wanna anoint Maverick a leader among losers, fine, but Lieberman? I can’t see that whiny loser leading anyone, anywhere.  Hey, Timmy, the nation votes overwhelmingly for change, and you have two pro-war Republicans on? Buffalo should disown you.

Over on Faze the Nation, Bush buddy Bobby Schieffer has on Harry Reid to gloat, and WH Chief of Staff Josh Bolten to whine.

On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has on Howard :omg: Dean, and Bush consigliere Dan Bartlett, to talk about how the Republicans really won big when they lost control of both Houses of Congress.  And maybe Dean will rip off Wallace’s head and shit down his throat (which is about the only way to get me to watch Fux News).

Over at the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has Senator MBNA and Senator Carl Levin, and we’ll also get another chance to see Josh Bolten.  Plus, the This Weak axis of drivel is together again, as George :jerk: Will, Sam :omg: Donaldson, and Cokie “the hag” Roberts gather around the Roundtable, to dispense the conventional wisdom we’ve all come to ignore.

On Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission, it’s another visit from Josh Bolten (must be all the other Bush Administration officials are busy updating their resumes this weekend), NY’s Chucky Schumer, PA’s Arlen “not dead yet” Specter, Pakistani PM, Shaukat Aziz, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, George Joulwan, former SecDef, Bill Cohen, and the NY Times’ Michael “aluminum tubes” Gordon.

Later, on 60 Minutes, the full hour will be devoted to remembering the late Ed Bradley.

On a somewhat happier note, there’ll be new episodes of the Simpsons (where you’ll get to see the world premiere of the Simpson’s Movie trailer), American Dad, and Family, Guy, as well as The Wire, on HBO.  Enjoy your Sunday.

Damn, what a dream I had last night. I dreamt that the Democrats crushed the Republicans in the election, and took both the House and the Senate. And Donny Rumsfeld had to resign. And that there’s gonna be a woman as Speaker of the House, and a guy that called Dick Cheney an SOB is gonna be Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (and get this, he’s a black guy!). And another black guy is gonna be Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee! And Teddy Kennedy is gonna be Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions!

Crazy, huh?

Happy Veteran’s Day to all you Vets out there. And to everybody serving in the military, I hope you’ll be able to come back home and become Veterans soon.

Feeling a bit under the weather, so I haven’t got much to say except it just won’t be the same without Macaca.

It’s been an interesting couple of days, hasn’t it? I keep reading stories from the pundit class, trying to give their spin on why “Democrats did so well.” All the ones I’ve read missed the point entirely. Democrats won big because the Republicans in general – and the Bush Administration specifically – are the most corrupt, disgusting, and inept bunch of demons to be set loose on our government at least in my lifetime, and most probably the history of the United States. And that’s saying a lot.

The question they really ought to be asking is, “why the fuck did it take so long for Americans to figure it out?” That’s what the rest of the world must be thinking. So, anyway, I vote we take a couple of days to enjoy this (it’s been a long time since we’ve had an election to be happy about) before we start in with “the Democrats suck” stuff. In fact, maybe we can give ’em until they actually take over. We all have a lot of work to come January, so we ought to rest up a bit. Speaking of which, I think I’ll go back to bed, and hopefully wake up again some time tomorrow afternoon.

Oh, and if you’re out there in LA, go see Marc at the Ex-Druggie Show at the UCB Theater.

Not sure how things turned out last night (may not even be done yet). I decided to go to bed as soon as the good guy lost by less than 4,000 votes in my district, but wound up staying up for quite a while, thanks to the combination of my laptop, wireless, and beer. By the time I finally gave it up and crashed, the House had been called for the Democrats (final margin up in the air, but at least a +25 pickup), and the Dems had picked up 4 Senate seats, and control of the Senate looking likely, with Webb up in VA by 1% (there’ll be a recount in that one, either way), and Tester leading by 4% in MT.

It’s good to have the House, but I can’t tell you how bad I feel about my Congressional District. It’s not about the pickup of a seat, but that we lost the chance to have an intelligent, thoughtful, and genuinely good person represent us in Congress. I hope Dan Maffei is back again in 2008.

Elsewhere here in NY, Hillary kicked ass with about 67% of the vote, Howie got about 1% (I forget, is that a moral victory?), Eliot Spitzer did even better than Hillary, with 69%, Andy Cuomo beat crazy Jeanine Pirro easily, and Alan Hevesi won handily, despite his chauffeur problems (now we’ll see if he’s forced to resign).
Anyhow, how did everything go in your neck of the woods?

It’s 7:00 Eastern Standard Time, and Polls closed an hour ago in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, and are closing right now in lots of other places, including Virginia, where we’re all hoping to see Senator Macaca go down, and in majority of Florida (the parts that are in the eastern time zone).  We’ve got half an hour ’til the polls close in Ohio, when we can begin to see just how badly the Republican voter suppression machine screwed the people this time around.  At 8:00, the polls close in the rest of Florida, CT (everybody keep your fingers crossed for Ned Lamont), NJ (where we’ll be keeping an eye on Menendez), PA (hopefully signaling the end of man-on-dog Sanatorium’s political career), and quite a few other places.

So, anyway, as polls close in your neck of the woods, let us know how things are going – especially in those local races that mean a lot to you, but maybe aren’t going to get a lot of play on the national news.  We’re hopeful up here in Upstate New York that we can pick up a bunch of House seats, so hopefully I’ll have some good news on that front not too soon after the polls close at 9:00.