Author - Bob Cesca

Wingnuts

New O'Keefe Video is a Flop

The little matchstick twerp James O'Keefe targeted "widespread Medicaid fraud" in Ohio with his latest video. And even with heavily edited footage, the sting/Jackass operation flopped. The video is a...

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Food

Chart of the Day

Ezra Klein posted the following chart showing the most popular proteins and their contribution to greenhouse gasses and, subsequently, the climate crisis. Lambs are killing the world! Seriously, I...

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Morning Awesome

Morning Awesome

"My Favorite Bands Ever" theme week continues with Rush and "Force Ten". (If you're keeping track, so far it's been The Tragically Hip, The Flaming Lips, and The New Pornographers. Which band will be...

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Economy

Disconnected with Reality

Every expert from economists to the White House to Moody's say that allowing the government to default on the debt would be nightmarish. Except Republicans and Tea Party Republicans. By a 53% to 30%...

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The Media

News Corp is Collapsing

The latest earth-shattering news in the imminent collapse of News Corp: Britain’s Channel 4 News is reporting that the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the agency charged with investigating and...

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Morning Awesome

Morning Awesome

The Flaming Lips - "Waiting for Superman" Live on Jools Holland So I guess it's going to be an impromptu "My Favorite Bands Ever" theme week beginning with yesterday's Tragically Hip video. Let's do...

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Economy

Bad Idea Jeans

According to the Washington Post, Harry Reid is evidently working with Mitch McConnell on a debt ceiling deal that sounds utterly ridiculous. It's a variation of the McConnell plan, but contains...

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