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Schroedinger’s senator is still dead/alive?
For anyone keeping track: We all know the “deadline” has passed to call a special election to fill out the remainder of the current term of “Weekend at Bernie’s” understudy, Mitch McConnell. The general consensus seems to be, “who cares if he’s dead or alive? At least he ain’t voting.” Anyway, you can read the…
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Let’s look at bad newsletters
Our locally misguided newspaper, the Courier Journal, distributed this newsletter this morning about one of the most important annual events in Kentucky politics. Can you spot what’s missing? Read in browserOn Kentucky PoliticsThu Aug 6 2026 Lucas Aulbach | Chief Politics Reporter@LucasAulbach Let’s talk about Fancy FarmGet a little extra coffee, because Fancy Farm (and other Kentucky political…
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A message to Schrödinger’s senator
Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, wants the state’s senior senator to prove he’s not the star of “Weekend at Bernie’s.“ Meanwhile, here’s Mitch McConnell’s staff in action: (And the bad-taste jokes will stop when Mitch makes a public appearance.)
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 30
Visiting our neighbor to the North. Where is our senior senator, and what are our government officials doing while we have limited representation? Was our MAGA U.S. Senate candidate behind a controversial billboard? The curse of Louisville’s “Can Opener.” The rise against data centers. And superheroes are just as depressed as the rest of us. …
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Ky.’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate: ‘Where’s Mitch?’
Charles Booker, a Black Louisvillian who has the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, has a few questions and comments about Schrödinger’s senator. We’ll turn this over to Booker, even though he has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning against the racist, homophobic, xenophobic Orange Menace fluffing Republican, Andy Barr.
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Schrödinger’s senator
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator, is dead and alive at the same time, but: 2. The political columnist at our local rag has declared, “There’s nothing to see here! Move along!” This happened days after that same columnist wrote about what a scumbag Mitch has been. 3. MAGA mutants, like the ones in the…
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I smell a ratfuck
Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes (covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections. It was brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men (1974), the book that chronicled their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal.(Wikipedia) A few weeks ago, during my daily miles-long walk around my Louisville neighborhood, I came across…
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Generalissimo Franco dumps Mitch, greets Lindsey Graham
Looks like Generalissimo Francisco Franco has cancelled his meetings with Mitch McConnell and is now on a first name basis with Lindsey Graham. By now, you know this happened (from The Washington Post): Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) died suddenly on Saturday night at age 71, his office said, prompting tributes from President Donald Trump and lawmakers…
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In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” first came on the air a half century ago, and one of the recurring bits was in the “Weekend Update” segment, where Chevy Chase would read this announcement: The joke, of course, was based on the fact that before Francisco Franco’s death, the three major news networks were running the same…
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Andy Barr’s campaign, illustrated
A quick rant. Andy Barr is running for Mitch McConnell’s U.S. Senate seat with the campaign message, “I love kissing Donald Trump’s ass.” The image above shows one of the key platforms in his campaign. Every struggling Kentuckian who votes for this sycophant deserves to suffer for the rest of their life. (Let’s throw this…
