Exciting news out of Costa Rica today: they elected their first woman president!
To be honest, I’m not crazy about all of Laura Chinchilla’s politics, but it is heartening to see another woman become a head of state. She gets to join Michelle Bachelet (president of Chile) and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (president of Argentina) in the Latin American woman presidents club! And then they should make a telenovela based on them, and I can die a happy lady.
People like to go on and on about the “liberal media” and I’m just like, “excuse me?” The “liberal media” that crucified Hillary Clinton? The “liberal media” that couldn’t shut up about (non-existent) Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in 2003? The “liberal media” that gives moronic goons like Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy and Bill O’Reilly the platform with which to spread their destructive ideas and patently false lies around America?
So I’m a little biased… who isn’t? (more…)
Fact: America is chock-full of crazies. Fact: A lot of of these crazies hold government office. Recently, Representative Cindy Davis of Missouri voiced her opposition to the free school lunches program for children, saying that hunger can be “a positive motivator.” Never mind that 1 out of 5 children in Missouri lives with hunger. Is your kindergartner hassling you for some string cheese? Well use that as a “positive motivator” and tell little Billy to start pounding the pavement looking for some honest work!
Fact: I love Keith Olbermann.
I like how instead of realizing that she sounds like a coldhearted antagonist from a Dickens novel, she just keeps digging herself in deeper. Ladies and gentlemen, people voted for this woman, a woman who would tell a hungry child to go get a job! Can she be impeached? Please?
Note: This is not an attack against the great state of Missouri. I fully admit that some of the craziest people in America are from Alaska, and that some of the craziest Alaskans hold political office. In fact, it seems that in Alaska, we prefer that our politicians be crazy.
What a jackass. Seriously. Do you really want McCain in charge of your uterus?
