Maver-ick-ick-ick

From John Heilemann at New York Magazine:

Is McCain attacking Obama and toeing the GOP line out of principle? Or for revenge against the man who beat him?
The Senate debate over health-care reform had just begun when John McCain took to the well of the upper chamber and offered his party’s first proposed amendment: to strip [...]

Law & Disorder

From The Arizona Republic:
Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl are continuing to press Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the decision to limit Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration-enforcement authority.
Amid controversy over Arpaio’s ongoing crime-suppression sweeps, Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office from the 287(g) “task force model” that allowed deputies [...]

When does the Lifetime movie come out?

From Courthouse News Service:
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CN) – South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford has filed for divorce, 7 months after her husband confessed to an affair with an Argentine mistress, and just days after a state House judiciary panel voted to censure, but not impeach, her husband, Gov. Mark Sanford.
Mrs. Sanford said in a statement, [...]

Oh Henry

Continuing our story from yesterday, in which Henry Brown, Jr. saves Christmas, we now know from whom he saved it.
Where else, but from Fox News:
A Republican lawmaker with a mission to save Christmas is aiming his latest salvo at President and first lady [sic] Obama, who’ve followed in a recent tradition to eliminate the [...]

He’s dreaming of a Brown Christmas

From POLITICAL HOTSHEET at CBS NEWS:
The annual cultural debate over Christmas has come to Congress.
South Carolina Rep. Henry Brown, Jr. and 18 of his fellow House Republicans [OOPS! It was 17 Rethugs and 1 Democrat] this week introduced Resolution 951, which makes it clear that Christmas should not be watered down for political correctness.

Original [...]

No Spin-ach Zone

From Entertainment Weekly:

Why is Popeye on the Google home-page today?

I was wondering, too.
Popeye the Sailor Man, his bulging forearms, and his strength-fortifying can of spinach can be seen on Google’s home page today, doing fans of cartoon art a big favor. Today is the birthday of Popeye creator E.C. Segar, born 115 years ago.
Segar was a [...]

Hysterical Raisins, the Movie

Kids, this is so exciting! Put on your tuxes and gowns. We’re going to a movie premiere!
One of my best blog buddies, Distributorcap, gave me a present for the 1,000 postiversary of the Raisin. He sent it to me, and knowing I was unable to post it here without shelling out 60 [...]

So much for that whole “southern gentleman” thing

From The Advocate:
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Friday that she is not dwelling on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s silence on the derogatory remarks leveled against her by some of his supporters.
Jindal initially publicly defended Landrieu, D-La., but that changed after conservative heavyweights began bashing her for money she got for Louisiana before voting on the controversial [...]