"And I issued a challenge to Tea Party members. … [Gingrich] is a progressive. … If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama, one in Newt Gingrich, one in...
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Our Cultural Dead Zone
Kurt Andersen wrote a brilliant piece for Vanity Fair in which he examines our 20-year cultural stagnation. We've all observed this, I'm sure, but Andersen dissects it nicely. Simply put: other than...
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Sugar - "Gee Angel" Looks like it's turning into an impromptu Bob Mould theme week.
This is What's Wrong with Political Coverage
John Heilemann's review of the Republican debate over the weekend is a fantastic example of why American political coverage is so awful, superficial and stupid. He graded it based on style and...
Thanks for Noticing, Mr. Gingrich
I'm really loving how ugly the Republicans are getting. Newt Gingrich just hit Romney with something we should be repeating over and over until November. “I would just say that if Governor Romney...
The 'Just Like Bush' Meme is Surging Back
Usually political memes are very popular for very short periods of time, and then we grow tired of them or they're just written off as hyperbolic crapola. I thought the "just like Bush" meme suffered...
The Republicans Could Lose South Carolina
A new Marist poll indicates that one of the wingnuttiest states in the nation could be won by President Obama. At this moment, according to this poll, President Obama is beating both Gingrich and...
Worst Persons
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board for publishing this ad: The message: Drunken Skanky Women are partly to blame for being date raped. You know, because they just couldn't keep their legs closed...
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Bob Mould - "See A Little Light"
The Republicans Keep On Lying
Olympia Snowe, for example, lied about the causes of debt: "Fiscal shenanigans such as permanent tax increases to pay for one-year temporary measures are precisely the problem that drove our nation...
Best Person
This guy rules. Just watch. Banks have been screwing homeowners 90 different ways. Nice to see someone screwing back.
$10,000 is A Lot of Money
The Republican presidential frontrunner has so much money, he can casually place $10,000 bets on national television. DES MOINES — This should play well to the 99% crowd: without skipping a beat at...
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Rush - "The Pass"
Super Stupid
Rick Perry isn't qualified to be president -- at this point, he's not even qualified to say the word "president." Here he botches the name of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Oh yeah, and Perry...
The Obama Economic Record
All things considered -- the depth of the recession and the utter hellscape that was 2007-2008 -- I would describe the president's record on the economy to be Damn Fine. As Sullivan notes: there's...
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MST3K Saturday - "San Francisco International"
Occupy the Internet
[My latest for Huffington Post] There's a bizarre irony in the fact that we're so absorbed and immersed in an online universe, we're not really paying attention to the slow but steady corporate...
Plan B Prevents Abortions
I don't understand why the administration can't make the case to the Republicans, who the Obama Team evidently fears will attack them for broadening the availability of contraception, that Plan B and...
Fail of the Year
Something about Rick Perry's awful anti-gay video seemed eerily familiar.(via Chez)
The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 12/9/11
The Obama Administration and the Morning After Pill; The Obama Record on Women's Health; The Godfather; Bob's Super Stupid Ladder Story; The VA Tech Shooting; Gun Control; Santa and His AR15 Assault...
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