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Author Archives: travellinbaen
REBRANDING! It’s the Latest Party Craze
Quote of the Day: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” –George Orwell The Michael Steele helmed GOP is a blank stare creating machine. Politico reported yesterday (May 13, 2009) … Continue reading
Can I (Hurl) Right Now?
Quote of the Day: “The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” … Continue reading
Posted in current events, People
Tagged Blank Stares, Bristol Palin, Carrie Prejean, dijon mustard, gay marriage, Joe the Plumber, media, Miss California, MSNBC, news, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Wanda Sykes
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The Quiet Coup
Quote of the Day: “Behind the ostensible government lies an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” –Teddy Roosevelt If you are interested in the state of our economy and how we … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged bankers, Democrats, economic crisis, economics, economy, Politics, President Obama, Republicans, Simon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, the Atlantic, The Quiet Coup, Wall Street
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Travellinbaen Named Top Candidate for Obama’s First Supreme Court Nomination
Quote of the Day: —“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes According to a source who must remain … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Humor, Law
Tagged Blank Stares, conversations, funny, George Clooney, Humor, I digress, Justice, Law, Leatherheads, political humor, President Obama, Republicans, Supreme Court, Supreme Court nominee
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The Collective Memory of the ARB’s
No post tonight other than this. I’ve been on a politics bender lately and need to get some inspiration on a different track. I promised a forum for this a few days back, and here it is. Without crossing “the … Continue reading
Travellinbaen’s Political Consulting Service, Bipartisan Edition
Quote of the Day: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” –Mark Twain TB’s been thinking about the state of politics in America lately, and trying to set aside my ingrained bias against the Republican … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged Bull Moose, consulting service, damn political post, Democrats, earmarks, energy, gay marriage, GOP, guns, health care, Issues, Military, Politics, Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt
36 Comments
TB, REK, Double Decker and the Limelight
TB, as has been said before, ain’t no music critic. But I do like Robert Earl Keen and it just so happened he was playing a show at The Lyric in Oxford Friday night, so I went to watch it. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Mississippi, Music, Music
Tagged Blank Stares, conversations, Double Decker Festival, George McConnell, Good Tunes, Humor, interview, Lyric Oxford, Oxford, Robert Earl Keen
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Travellinbaen 
Spotlight on the Commenters–Smiley’s Story, and A Conversation From 1990
Quote of the Day: “Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.” –Jonathon Swift TB gets a lot of pleasure from reading the commentary that appears below my posts. About a week ago I put out … Continue reading →