Month: May 2010

With less than a month to go before the California primary on June 8, former eBay executive Meg Whitman, the frontrunner to be the GOP nominee for governor, has already spent nearly $60 million — or an estimated $249 a minute — of her own money on the campaign. Just a few weeks ago, it looked like money well-spent, at least in the sense that Whitman had bought herself a commanding lead over Steve Poizner, the other self-funding Silicon Valley millionaire in the race who also currently serves as California’s insurance commissioner.

Suddenly, however, Whitman’s investment is looking like it might not pay off.

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You may have missed it, but there’s a lot of soul searching going on among the younger crop of conservative big thinkers. Most of it seems to miss the point that is plain as day everyone else: the conservative movement has been hijacked by corporatists whose sole reason for seeking power is to funnel taxpayer funds into the coffers of their corporate masters — people who will lie, cheat and steal to win elections, but then have nothing but disdain for the icky part that comes afterward, i.e., governing.

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Somewhere a team of psychologists is researching why, during the brink of economic collapse, new parents chose to christen their babies with names right off the roster of a Society Hill private school. According to a list released annually for Mother’s Day by the Social Security Administration, every baby born in 2009 will someday wear Ralph Lauren. In order, here are the most pretentious popular girls’ names:
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Facts may be stubborn things, but they are no match for the 14 percent of Americans who, despite evidence to the contrary, not to mention common-sense reasoning, still believe Pres. Obama was born outside the United States:

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