"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"
-Oscar Wilde		 Brilliant at Breakfast title banner "The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
-- Proverbs 11:25
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

I miss George Carlin.
Posted by Jill | 5:00 AM


And while we're on the subject of faux heroes, I can't be the only one who heard about Manti T'eo and had the old music archive in the brain fetch "My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada from Avenue Q:



Now, can we please start looking at teachers and fire fighters and dogs and cats who alert their people to house fires as heroes instead of a bunch of dumb jocks?

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Show your solidarity
Posted by Jill | 8:49 PM
If you'd like to send a get well card or message to Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran currently recovering from an attack by Oakland police, you can send it to:

U.S.M.C. Scott Olsen
c/o Highland Hospital
1411 East 31st Street
Oakland, CA 94602

You know you have some blank notepaper still stowed away somewhere....

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Alan Grayson may be gone, but Anthony Weiner is still fighting the good fight
Posted by Jill | 12:07 PM
I wish I had him instead of Scott the Wingnut Hypocrite Garrett as my Congressman:


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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Tuesday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Posted by Jill | 7:25 PM
Today's honoree: Who else could it be but Shirley Sherrod? Here's what she actually said, in the money quote to end all money quotes (via Digby):
I couldn't say 45 years ago, I couldn't stand here and say what I'm saying -- what I will say to you tonight. Like I told, God helped me to see that its not just about black people, it's about poor people. And I've come a long way. I knew that I couldn't live with hate, you know. As my mother has said to so many, if we had tried to live with hate in our hearts, we'd probably be dead now.

But I've come to realize that we have to work together and -- you know, it's sad that we don't have a room full of white and blacks here tonight 'cause we have to overcome the divisions that we have. We have to get to the point as Tony Morrison said race exists but it doesn't matter. We have to work just as hard -- I know it's -- you know, that division is still here, but our communities are not going to thrive -- you know, our children won't have the communities that they need to be able to stay in and live in and have a good life if we can't figure this out, you all. White people, black people, Hispanic people, we all have to do our part to make our communities a safe place, a healthy place, a good environment.

Of course I wouldn't expect Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe, and the rest of their hateful minions don't understand that. You have to be human and have a heart and a soul for that -- and they have neither.

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