How does it feel to have the ol’ Idea of Progress back? Come on, you can be honest– I can take it.
Since I’ve been gone for so long, and I switched over to Wordpress, I don’t even have the blog updated. I can’t figure out how to change the strange pictures of Italy [...]

I wanted to quote a line or two from Frank Rich in his editorial at the New York Times yesterday about our good friend from the north, Ms. Palin, but his piece was so angry and so full of information that I’m going to give you acouple of paragraphs of it:
We still [...]

Working on another blog. For those of you that skip by all of the political posts here at the Idea of Progress, take comfort in that they will no longer appear here. From now on this will be all pictures of bunnies and Bono hatred and creepy Craigslist Missed Connections.

I’ve begun a [...]

I never thought that Arnold would be anything remotely like a good politician, but he constantly proves me wrong. Plus, it looks like he hates Bush as much as the rest of us, so he can’t be all bad.
From meignorant.com.
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“Just so we don’t have to go through this whole resignation thing again,” one ballsy reporter asked, “have you ever patronized a prostitute?” Paterson thought for a minute. “Only the lobbyists,” he said.
-Soon to be New York Governor David Paterson
Stolen from Salon.
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First of all, I’m still here. I know I haven’t posted in a while– I’ve had some sort of mysterious ailment that seems to have subsided. Probably the flu. Who knows?
How are you? So, you finally decided to drop out of the presidential race, huh? That doesn’t surprise me. [...]

I’ve been interested to note your evident support for Obama, and I was hoping you’d do me the honor of explaining to me why you’re backing him and what makes him preferable to Mrs C. I could read up on this in my usual press outlets, but would rather hear it from someone at grassroots [...]

Doesn’t that seem backwards? Usually, a woman writes a Dear John letter to dump her boyfriend. Instead, you’re leaving us behind. It’s too bad, because you would probably make a pretty good president. You’re a stand up guy, I agree with you on pretty much everything you believe in, and I [...]

Wow, you have less than a year left in office. That’s not a lot, is it? I’ve never lived in one place for that long in my entire life– it must be difficult making plans on where to move to next. Are you and Laura going to rent an apartment? Since [...]

Running for President was hard, wasn’t it? I mean, all of that talking, and walking, and being nice to people and all of that. It’s not the same as sitting on your front porch drinking lemonade, or fly fishing, or whatever real Americans do.
It’s hard work!
I understand why you decided to [...]