"Busload of Faith" - Lou Reed
You can depend on the worst always happening
you can depend on a murderer's drive
You can bet that if he rapes somebody
there'll be no trouble having a child
You can bet that if she aborts it
pro-lifers will attack her with rage
You can depend on the worst always happening
you need a busload of faith to get by, yeah
I suppose the Romney campaign won't appreciate this as a suggested campaign song. (A very Beggar's Banquet sound by Lou here.)
- I can't really add anything to the Todd Akin hootenanny -- I will subcontract it to Amanda -- I fear it is a moment too soon and that he may walk away from the battle before McCaskill gets to beat his sorry hillbilly ass. The rats jumping off the good ship asshole are creating quite the wake -- Romney, Cornyn, Scott Brown, the Tea Party and even Sean Hannity. Akin still claims he's staying in. Let's hope. McCaskill has been trailing badly in polls, but this one strikes me as the proverbial game changer. And the Obama campaign wisely appears to be looking to hang Akin around the Romney/Ryan ticket's neck. So now Romney is going to have to explain Ryan's budget, his Medicare proposal, and his "you must bear your rapist's baby bill." Good luck with that Mitt.
- There are few pundits I despise more than Niall Ferguson, an arrogant know nothing who has somehow parlayed his British accent into a professor's slot at Harvard. Ferguson traffics in pure partisan hackery at this juncture. The latest is his deeply dishonest attack on Obama on the cover of Newsweek. His continued presence in Newsweek -- Christ, he doesn't meet the very limited standards for a godamned news weekly -- at the behest of fellow Brit lightweight Tina Brown makes me wish devoutly for Newsweek's demise. Like its former sister publication the Washington Post, the world will be a better place when both are gone.
Alright, I turn it over to you. Have at it.
