Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 20:39 Watching Red Scare movie "My Son John". This repressed, passive-aggressive family would drive anyone into the clutches of Stalin. #
• 21:41 Like Roman Catholic Mass. Stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down. #sotu #
• 21:46 "thank you, honey! She gets embarrassed." #sotu #
• 21:58 And the Supreme Court sits there stony. #sotu #
• 22:00 Watching #sotu on Cspan.org, full screen, dell monitor, while the Neuros records anti communist night on TCM. #
• 22:08 Prez Obama needs to say to the GOP 'The American people are better than this. YOU a re better than this." #sotu #
• 22:10 Are our nuclear missiles still auto-targeted at the Sargasso Sea? Anyone? #dangerroom ? #sotu #
• 22:13 "Once again prosecuting civil rights violations." OOOOh, snap! #sotu #
• 22:16 you can hear a pin drop in the chamber as he talks about cynicism. #sotu #
• 22:20 no one is saying shit now #sotu #
• 22:22 Serious question: do other heads of state end their major speeches with "god bless France" or "God bless Germany"? #sotu #
• 22:23 In the UK they used to end with "God Save The Queen/King" #sotu #
• 22:27 oooooooooh, good republican theater; make their response look like the state of the union! #sotu #
• 22:28 Republicans even #
• 22:28 republicans even applaud in lockstep. Weird. #gopresponse #
• 22:30 Milk it, brother, milk it! #gopresponse #
• 22:31 Why do they all sound like Bobby Jindal? #gopresponse #
• 22:32 Strategically placed ethnic people behind the Governor #gopresponse #< /li>
• 22:33 it's like they all took speech lessons from the same forensic teacher. that same singsong cadence. #gopresponse #
• 22:35 I have (and hate) to say that one of the few GOP leaders without the singsong cadence is Sarah Palin. Of course, she has other problems. #
• 22:36 the only downside to more nuke plants: where will the engineers and operators come from? New college grads? Denude the Navy? #sotu #
• 22:37 This lockstep applause from the GOP is freaking me out. #gopresponse #