And Huffpo Is Great At Trotting Out...

[Posted by reader_iam]

... its "Uncle Jerks" to show how free of stereotypes it is, how little it relies on innuendo, and how courageous it is ("...in a relationship with a woman? Well, certainly a financial one."--nice hedge, dude, and right at the end of your post, no less! Surprise, surprise.).

That parenthetical notwithstanding, what I really want to ask about is that lovely mixed "metaphor": Tell me, if "Condi" were white, would Rogers have trotted that one out so trippingly? And why is Huffpo all "Hey! Cool!" with this?

Eh, never mind.

Affiliation Switch + Half a Bil O' Ambition

[Posted by reader_iam]

And this officially registered "no party," committed voter still ain't all that impressed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But time will tell.

(I heard the half-billion--expressed as up to $500 million--allusion to how much personal money Bloomberg would be willing to stake his own candidacy while flipping through news channels tonight. Here's a place where that figure was mentioned on line.)