Category: The Dish

S.V. Date at TNR hears that Michigan will announce a new caucus within the next few days.

How could I have forgotten this? The full lyrics are after the jump. Amazing for their time. And the original is on Chris Lowe’s "Back To Mine" compilation

I’m walking through life in nature’s disguise
You laugh at me and you criticize. 

‘Cause I’m happy, carefree and gay
Yes, I’m gay
Ain’t no fault – it’s a fact
I was born this way – yeah
Now I won’t judge you – don’t you judge me
We’re all the way nature meant us to be

Chorus
I’m happy, I’m carefree and I’m gay
I was born this way

You call me strange ’cause you don’t understand
God’s role for me in life’s overall plan
I’ve learned to hold my head up high
Not in scorn nor disgrace
Doin’ my thing individually
Entwined with this human race

Now I won’t judge you – don’t you judge me
We’re all the way nature meant us to be

Chorus

You laugh at me and you got the nerve to criticize
If I were you I’d sit down
And consider what you’re doin’
Love me and I love you
And together ain’t no tellin’ what we’ll do
Yeah – born I said
From a little bitty bitty boy
I was born this way

I love you, I love you
And even you – born this way – yeah
I’m tellin’ y’all one more time
I was born this way, proud to tell it
I was born this way
Gonna shout it, tell the world about it
I was born this way

Some constructive criticism from yours truly.

Introducing the once-only Newton virus. Someone will blame me for posting this.

Some silence and prevarication from several major Muslim states.

A phrase becomes an entire blog.

Kos has it:

Of the other five defendants, three have donated to the Clintons or to Clinton supporters, three have donated mostly to Republicans, and at least two have donated to Obama’s political opponents. None have donated to Obama. 

More here.

Thomas Barnett picks up on a meme that is still out there among the neocons:

Yes, there is plenty of anti-Americanism in the Middle East, and especially anti-Bush sentiment. But here’s the deal, there’s no pre-Bush thinking left there. Everyone’s been forced to move on in some sense.

That’s Bush’s real legacy and its huge. I didn’t say positive or negative, but huge. Anything that big will be debated forever.

Basically: borrow around a trilllion from the Chinese to give Iran a new client state next door, occupy it for the next thirty years, and still keep oil at $106 a gallon barrel. Yes: lots to debate.

Ms Jill Blumberg chases those Hillary blues away:

Hat tip: Tighten Up Report.

Ezra Klein on the "unity ticket":

…an Obama-Clinton ticket makes no sense. She is not the only Democratic politician with a connection to working class white voters. Moreover, she steps on his central narratives of unity and transformation. I think he probably has to pick a woman — or at least would be wise to pick a woman — but Clinton does him harm without doing him much good. And does he really think he can control an operation as brash and overbearing as hers? Will Mark Penn really defer to David Axelrod? Will Bill Clinton?

The whole idea is pretty silly, when you think about it for more than a couple of minutes.