URANTIAN SOJOURN 12·10

Welcome to the premiere edition of Urantian Sojourn Magazine, our latest effort at simultaneously blogging ourselves into oblivion, and regaining some semblance of a life fairly balanced between work and play.  Here’s what we have in mind. Our “Table of Contents” below shows you what’s in this issue so far;  starting out, we anticipate publishing just the cover story, hoping …

Bachmann-Boehner Overdrive

…the new speaker-boner of the Republicans, John Boehner, appears ready to take on Bachmann obliquely, with a sharp smear at her erratic makeup skills by flaunting his own hot new look.

Thank You, Teabaggers (Update)

The original  Blue Dog scold, Huckleberry Hound In yesterday’s political tsunami that swept the Dems out of control of the House of Representatives, a silver lining in that dark cloud is the evisceration of the Blue Dog Caucus that was the brainchild of President’s Obama‘s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel (now trying to ply his bs to the residents …

Tempest In A Tea Cup UPDATED

Mr. Lachrymosity is back. . . and he’s still the same shade of frikkin orange.

Stewart’s Sanity Speech, Citizens United, & The Mid-Term Elections

Jon Stewart lays down the predicate for his Restore Sanity speech Criticisms of Jon Stewart’s closing speech at his and Stephen Colbert’s Restore Sanity and/or Fear Rally in D.C. last Saturday are varied. One has it  that he didn’t encourage people to just simply vote. As far as I saw, watching the whole thing on my teevee, the only person …

RESTORE SANITY Post-Rally Reflections

Yeah! I didn’t see a single misspelled word on the hundreds of signs I read today. . .

Pre-Rally Reflections

The Fear is palpable on the National Mall tonight;  the crew rocked the sound check with Steely Dan’s Bodhisattva. Well, at least when we were walking by. WASHINGTON D.C. —  We landed at Dulles in a 35 m.p.h. crosswind.  I know this because the pilot came on and praised his first officer for doing a “heckofa job” landing that bitch. …