Well into the new year and still going....

Screenshot from 5 minutes ago. One word: C'MON!

Decision 2006, version 1.10

Well, if you didn't get enough of the midterms, you can get all excited about the House and Senate leadership elections coming up. Sure, there won't be as much partisan cat-fighting, no advertising, and you don't get a vote, but there'll be numbers and graphs and endorsements and maybe some of Charles Gibson's and George Stephanapolis's Tweedle-Dee/Tweedle-Dum "analysis", and that's what the spirit of an election is really about, right?
While no one seems to oppose Pelosi's Iron Fist for Speaker, two wonderfully eligible gentlemen have thrown their hats into the ring, John Murtha and Stecy Hoyer. Hoyer says that he has the votes right now, but Murtha has Pelosi's support. With all the issues that could come into play, like fund raising ability, telegenics, and, uhhhh, work ethic, we all know that this will be decided byone thing: the HRC score that they received for their work during the 109th Congress.

We'll save you the time it takes to mosey on over to the HRC and find it and just give it to you: Murtha got a 66 (17/33 in previous Congresses) and Hoyer an 88 (100/100 in previous Congresses). Murtha earned that 66 by opposing the anti-gay marriage Constitutional Amendment and half-heartedly supporting adding LGBT folk to pretty much ineffective federal hate crimes legislation, and Hoyers lost 12 points for helping keep Don't Ask, Don't Tell around. Murtha must be kicking himself in the pants now!

Things that make you go Awwwwwwww

On the POGA:

[NGLTF exec. director] Foreman [...] pointed to the defeat of anti-abortion ballot measures and to a failed attempt to ban same-sex marriage in Arizona as signs of gay success at the polls. Seven other states voted to approve constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage: Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. Similar amendments have passed previously in all 20 states that considered them. But Foreman said there was still progress because the bans succeeded by narrower margins.

One thing we can't say about the gay activists is that they're spoiled. This movement's pluck, gumption, and other 1920's qualities are refreshing after looking at what that Christian rights movement has become.

Love the sin, hate the sinner

In coming to terms with the midterms, Jonah Goldberg produced this little gem for the NRO:

It's also true that the Iraq war is unpopular; that's because it's not going swimmingly. If it were otherwise, Iraq would be a political boon to the GOP. Now, you might say, "Yeah, and except for the brief unpleasantness, Mrs. Lincoln had a wonderful time at the theater." But it is not the conservative position to botch wars. And contrary to the slanderous codswallop you've heard for the last year, conservative principles do not require flooding New Orleans.

And we think: abso-fuckin'-lutely! You see, being conservative means doing good things, so when politicians don't do good things, they're not being conservative! This works even better when the word "conservative" is replaced by pretty much anything else, like "genteel", "delicious", or "horny". Go on, try it.

Q-Bomb launched! No one rejoices...

After the midterms, the kids down at Q-Bomb thought it necessary to start a blog, which they hope will be viewed by archeologists one day as the voice of the average American in 2006. Basically, that's their one and only goal: to mess with the same history majors who didn't want to party with them in college.

Visiting Q-Bomb for the first time, you may think that the name is a reference to The Mouse that Roared, which they've been told is a really, really old movie. Don't worry, they've never even seen a non-pornographic film from before 1997. It's really just the result of getting bored in front of the blogger registration screen after they found out that every anal sex reference was already taken.