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Hint: my birthday is coming up.

I like this. I want to put it on my car. If you have the right to broadcast your religious beliefs, I have the right to shoot them down.

A day of change

I'm sitting here at work listening to Obama's inaugural speech because everybody is riveted to the screen. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at multi-tasking. As he speaks of the challenges that lie before us, I'm compelled to reflect on the hope and change he promises. Obama made it pretty clear that he's not planning to govern from the left. The Left made it pretty clear they expect him to do it anyway. The Right are sharpening their blades in gleeful anticipation of cutting his policies to shreds now that they're back in the obstructionist role they perfected. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Obama will be able to leverage the public support he currently enjoys to function effectively and neuter the Republican noise machine. I wish I could say that I have hope. Obama's cabinet picks have been a mixed bag, at best. Some neocons from the Bush administration, a genuine scientist for the Energy Department and a lot of former Clinton appointees. Eric Holder...

Revisionism redux

So our revered drug addict is at it again: Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it. The funny thing? I seem to recall Conservatives running the show for the majority of the past two decades. I'm getting really tired of conservatives trying to go back and blame their screwups on liberals. Rove is doing it, Bush is doing it, pretty much everyone on Fox News has been trying to change history as it happens ("terrorist fist-jab," anyone?) and Limbaugh is right there on the fringes leading the charge. It's all the fault of the Liberals! But...conservatives have dominated government more often than not since Reagan started appointing federal judges. Liberalism! The media has a well-known liberal bia...