Team Brunette Takes a Blow

NASCAR driver and sporting industry sex symbol, Danica Patrick, told Daily Caller Tuesday, "I leave it up to the government to make good decision for Americans."

What the hell is the point of Feminism if the 'role models' are going to sound so stupid?

Want Sharia for your Grandkids? Vote Santorum

No, seriously. I mean it. With statements about how the separation of Church and State is not absolute, we open the door to the 21st century reality of those who want to intertwine our legal system with Sharia Law. Obviously Santorum thinks Christianity should have a voice in politics, but more and more Sharia is coming into play here in America...and that is where the First Amendement wall will be breached.

I'm not saying get crazy and remove historic religious monuments, or limit religious services for the military, etc. But lets keep our conversations about the roll of government firmly in the secular.




P.S. I don't want to hear about how over simplified this I'm making this...the First Amendement is nuanced and we could go on and on. But I have dinner to cook and laundry to fold, so this is all-she-wrote, folks.

It's not a "Santorum Surge"...

It's just Ricky Boy's turn for a two-week "Not-Romney" bubble.

Gov. McDonnell, Where For Art Thou?

As the GOP primary inexplicably devolves into 'I'm more socially conservative than you' amidst the worst economy since the Great Depression, I can't help but prepare myself for an Obama victory this November. Despite $4 gas and $5 bread, our alternatives to the fumbling, inumbent president, well...they just suck. I'll hold my nose vote for the nominee, but I'm not sure anyone else will bother.

But since that is a juvenile way to state our situation, I would like to defer to the far more elegant Amy Peikoff to shine the light of hard truth on our naked emperors:

Republican luminaries also leave much to be desired. Look at the “final four”: an unprincipled intellectual wild card who is a proven failure as a political leader; a former governor who enacted government-run health care at the state level and has no vision for reducing the size or scope of government; a failed senator who would replace liberal, big-government programs with conservative government intrusion into people’s lives; and a serving congressman who understands that government is the problem but whose foreign-policy views are more appropriate for the age of sail and grapeshot than nuclear weapons and global terrorism. None of them has the right mix of experience, policy savvy and charisma to set the race afire, and members of the four opposing camps all wish there could be another Ronald Reagan.

If only my boy, Bobby McD, would reconsider...

What's Better Than Shooting Tasty Animals?

Using a thuggy animal 'rights' group's Micropter for target practice.

Quit Making Me Root for Romney!!

Just when Obama was sinking his own ship with the whole Catholic contraception mandate business, Rick Santorum steps in to deflect the haters back on himself. He’s decided the 2012 conversation should not be about the constitutional freedom of religion, but rather the evils of contraception.

Good, job, Rick...make yourself a walking stereotype so we can focus on how much Republicans want to interfere with everyone’s sex life.

God forbid this election be about the economy.




Ricky Boy is just another Republican hack who has no idea why taxpayers started the tea party.

Cafe Press...Candidate Swag Sales Barometer

2012 Election Merchandise | Bumper Stickers, Buttons & Pins, T Shirts & More

Do the t-shirt sales for 2012 candidates reflect the real pulse of popular opinion for the coming election? I think so, and it's certainly a guage of passion for the most involved and committed politophiles. Cafe Press' Cultural Barometer, which tracks candidate merchandise sales, made news a few months ago...but it's worth checking in again to see how things are going. Two interesting finds: despite Santorum's new found popularity, his sales have been slipping. And Obama's sluggish sales have finally started to pick up...and so has Anti-Obama gear (which is still in the lead).

Check it out HERE.

Hope that means a little extra spending cash for our friends at Doo Doo Economics...and, no we don't think Obama is Satan. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice person to share a beer with. But socialism and his policies about how to 'fix' the world are turning out to be pretty damn evil.

What Did You Expect?

By now everyone has heard that the Ninth Circuit ruling on Prop 8. Is anyone actually surprised? For both sides, the fight is long from over, but, really, the writing is on the wall.

And it might surprise (and possibly anger) some of you to know I really don’t have a problem with gay marriage. I don’t think it’s the slippery slope to socially acceptable incest (or worse). And most of my gay friends do the whole White-Picket-Fence-Middle-America thing better than me or most of my straight friends.

But to be entirely intellectually fair, it is time to start a betting pool on how long it will take the plural marriage crowd to start demanding equality. We’ve already seen the beginnings of normalizing that culture with Big Love, Sister Wives and various cable specials on the topic.

As a woman, I will not stand for a society that accepts women sharing a husband as some sort of healthy norm. In theory plural marriage could be multiple husbands and wives in the same family, but we’ve never really seen it. All over the globe the standard seems to be one self-righteous ‘family man’ surrounded by vacant grinning women pretending they don’t mind waiting for their turn to bed Mr. Wonderful. And the (femal, ahem) offspring are raised to embrace the lifesyle as the only road to love and security.

So to the LGBT community, and with all sincerity, enjoy the victory! Hold fabulous weddings that help pump needed cash into our weary economy, and get ready for the day when you can share in the glories of the Marriage Penalty...we’re counting on your share to help pull us out of the national debt.

But be prepared to have to take sides in the next battle over defining legal marriage...it may not happen tomorrow, but it’s coming. How do you want your daughters to define an equal, loving life commitment?

Ode to Black History Month...Alvin Ailey

In my humble opinion, the greatest American Artist...ever.

Americans Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham may have been the mothers of Modern Dance (yes, folks, Modern Dance is another great American institution)...but their work always looked East to European and Classical inspirations. Ailey reveled in American themes, primarily of the Black experience, and celebrated the strength and power of faith, family and survival. He made the genre accessible and opened his groundbreaking company to artists of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Today the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is arguably the most celebrated Modern Dance company in the world.

Just take a peak at the company’s Vimeo Channel to see for yourself that his work breaks free of the rigid constrains of ballet while remaining beautiful to watch...unlike so much convulsive and tortured Modern choreography.

"Ailey will rock your soul!" from AlvinAileyAmericanDanceTheater on Vimeo.

Every American owes it to themselves to see Revelations live at least once in their lifetime...if for no other reason (if you think you don’t like dance) to sound culturally literate at dinner parties.

Revelations from AlvinAileyAmericanDanceTheater on Vimeo.

Enjoy these photos & videos, please visit the website, and if you can afford it, splurge on tickets for the North American Tour...you won’t regret it.

Of course, where would Mr. Ailey be without the magnificent Judith Jamison?