Entries Tagged as 'Gratuitous Roller Derby Reference'

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Mitt Romney: Salt of the Earth

One of my pet peeves with political journalism is the way that wealthy liberals are attacked as ”hypocritical” for caring about poor folks, but genuine patrician conservatives are labeled “ordinary guys” when they pretend to like pork rinds and NASCAR and throw a “y’all” in here and there.
I give you as example number one Mitt Romney. The first time [...]

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

An Indication?

I was wearing this Barack Obama pin yesterday. You get it, O’bama…you see…he’s not Irish, but it’s funny and stuff.
I attended a District 28 Democratic club St. Patrick’s day party, which, for the first time since, I dunno, Lou Brady was chair was actually held on St. Patrick’s day. For the last couple of years, [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

In Which I Channel Those Semi-Gossipy Political Columns

Spotted this weekend at the Dust Devil, a tournament of twelve women’s roller derby teams from all over the western states, was Rep. Pete Hershberger. This was Hershberger’s first venture into the world of flat track roller derby and came to watch what turned out to be a snoozer of a match between the Tucson [...]

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Some Comments on Saturday

I expected that David Waid would win. Before the meeting, I would have said that a decisive win would have been 65% or so. Waid won with a ridiculous 86% of the vote. I don’t know if this means that there wasn’t as much enthusiasm from the new progressive wing about Randy Camacho as had [...]

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