Once again I ask, where are the liberals who react to political frustration through violence? This is a thoroughly conservative trend.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Buchanan and Tancredo hate Sotomayor and have an ally who committed a hate crime : http://bit.ly/3VBsq

If saying positive things about being a Latina is “new racism”, then we need to find a stronger word than “racist” to describe Newt et. al.

Republicans hate how all those black people and women and the mexicans always rely on identity politics. Did they invent color-blind racism?

Today’s lesson is that California’s government-by-ballot measure enshrines ignorance, irresponsibility, and bigotry…but you knew that.

Re: Prop 8, the whole “revision vs. amendment” argument was weak. I wish they had just gotten a new Prop on last week’s ballot instead.

Republicans think Gitmo detainees have the magical power to persuade anyone into being a terrorist.

Ran into Ronald Reagan’s ghost at Target. He wanted me to tell you Dick Cheney “has always been a damned poltroon”, whatever that means.

Dear, Twitter. Please don’t automatically shorten links in my messages. URL shorteners are evil, as is unnecessarily obfuscating links.

“Stuff happens” http://bit.ly/iqbV3

Saying Bush/Cheney have kept us safe since 9/11 is like praising O.J. Simpson for being murder-free since 1994. Mostly true, but…

After spending some more time with it, I’ve got a definite love-hate relationship with Twitter. The things I hate about it, I hate with a passion not out of some grumpy old man sorta way, but the fact that Twitter is way too feature-sparse to be one of the biggest Web 2.0 success stories. My two biggest gripes :

- The reliance on @ and # shorthand for the most basic of “social networking” functionality is ridiculous. In 2009, there’s no reason why there should be as steep learning curve for something as basic as “Send a message about ____ to _____”. Even worse, Twitter barely even supports this syntax, lacking autocomplete, message threading, or the ability to figure out what a #topic is all about without resorting to Google.

- The 140-character limit is crap. It’s not “zen-like” or “minimalist”, it’s just a limitation built around the 160-character limitation of text messages (which itself is a total scam). The 140-character limit has also led to a big reliance on URL-shortening services, which are evil.

That said, I do appreciate a micro-blogging platform that’s easy to integrate into my main site and supports posting via cell phone and IM, so I’ve reluctantly started using it more and more (thus the abundance of one-sentence posts here). It’s ubiquitous and sorta-cool, but overall I still think Twitter is horrible not because of what it’s trying to be, but because it falls far short of being as great as it should.

If MSNBC is going to interview Liz Cheney, they should at least include Sasha and Malia for some balance.

With Dick Cheney et. al. so concerned about “criminalizing policy differences”, let’s all hope al Qaeda never forms a PAC.

Ever find yourself subconsciously singing along to the radio before catching yourself and thinking “Ugghh….I HATE this song.”? #Cheney