The Tragically Hip - "The Depression Suite" (Live at Abbotsford) The Hip released a series of live YouTube clips from a 2009 concert at Abbotsford. Yeah, I think I'm going to run a bunch of these in...
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Nuclear Disaster Imminent
Things are rapidly disintegrating at the Fukushima power plant. FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that radioactive levels had become high around an earthquake...
Very Serious Question
Can you imagine the nuclear disaster at Fukushima had there not been strict government regulations on the industry? Put another way: can you imagine if the free market deregulatory zealots allowed...
The Tsunami Before and After
These before and after slides make it appear as if Japan was hit by another series of atomic bombs. You really should take a look. They go a long way towards helping us understand how we're...
Worst Persons
Bloomberg News for totally omitting an obvious choice in the following poll: To reduce the deficit, the Feds should do: 1) Deep cuts, risk shutdown: 20% 2) Cuts, compromise: 77% 3) Not sure: 3% No...
Protests Against Budget Cuts
BOOM! Finally! Chris Bowers reports: On Tuesday, Americans in all 50 states will rally in front of schools, libraries, fire stations, hospitals, and parks to protest the rising tide of austerity...
More Bad News for Japan
The latest on the nuclear crisis: it could last for "weeks or even months." WASHINGTON — As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the...
Video Debunking of O'Keefe NPR Scam
Sullivan provides the video clips from The Blaze in which the O'Keefe videos are revealed to be fraudulent. Clearly the videos that were released to the media and to the House Republicans were...
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Simple Minds - "Don't You Forget About Me" From Live Aid 1985
Super Stupid
Michele Bachmann thought the battles of Lexington and Concord were located in New Hampshire instead of Massachusetts. She said this twice. Prepared remarks. And when she was called on her doofery...
Republicans Also Cruel to Animals
In Missouri, the Republicans are trying to roll back an anti-puppy mill law. Saying the new requirements would put the dog breeding industry out of business, the state Senate voted 20-14 on Thursday...
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The Audreys - "Sometimes the Stars"
Safe, Clean Nuclear Power
Here's video of the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion. I'm waiting for everyone who says it's "safe" to step up and reiterate their claim -- Arnold Vinick style. Let's go. Waiting... Even if it...
Republicans Would Furlough Tsunami Watchers
Dan Sobien, president of National Weather Service Employees Organization, on the impact of the Republican budget cuts: NOAA has put together part of a contingency plan to handle such a massive cut...
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MST3K Saturday - "Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell"
The Bubble Genius Bob & Elvis Show 3/10/11
Charlie Sheen Beats Women; Martin Bashir is Boring; Andrea Mitchell Can't Read; The Republican Cavalcade of Crazy; Wisconsin Madness; Peter King's Islamophobic Hearings; Sarah Palin's Word Salad; The...
Why Do Republicans Hate Trains?
This goes back to Bobby Jindal's disastrous response to the State of the Union in which he poked fun at the idea of a "magnetic levitation train." Guh-yuck! Guh-yuck! Magnetic levitation?! Sounds...
Shocker: NPR Videos Selectively Edited
Via Digby, it turns out The Blaze, Glenn Beck's Huff Post thing, has more or less debunked the authenticity of the latest James O'Keefe videos in which he scams Ron Schiller, an executive from NPR...
Japanese Nuclear Reactor Crisis
But nuclear power is totally safe. The Japanese government declared an atomic emergency and told thousands of residents living near a nuclear plant in Fukushima to evacuate, warning a small amount of...
The Tsunami
More staggering photographs here.