The Power Station - "Some Like It Hot"
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Presidential Palin
I sincerely hope reality television doesn't become a qualification for the presidency. Matt Labash from the Weekly Standard: Sarah Palin’s Alaska shares the network’s schedule with shows like Ton of...
The Subversives
The Simpsons producers continue to rip into its masters at Fox -- this time, Fox News Channel specifically. From the most recent episode, via Sullivan: This implies Fox News Channel is actively...
Tea Party Dreams: Crushed by the Day
Not only are many of the tea party candidates backing away from their anti-spending roots, but there's this, too: More than a few Republicans know that while the politics of trying to nitpick...
Blogging the Civil War
The New York Times has launched "Disunion": a blog about the American Civil War that's updated in real time. By the looks of it, they're appropriately up to November of 1960. It's only a matter of...
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The Tragically Hip - "Gift Shop"
Listen All Y'all, It's a Republican Sabotage
Steve Benen (with inspiration from Yglesias) about the Republican strategy of deliberately sabotaging the economic recovery: We're talking about a major political party, which will control much of...
Headline of the Week
I can't think of a better headline to summarize what's arguably been the biggest story of the week: TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine Okay, so can we fix this already? Meanwhile, I hear...
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Sunny Day Real Estate - "Every Shining Time You Arrive"
Quote of the Day
"That last tweet by @SarhPalinUSA sums up in 140 characters why this person should never be allowed any authority over any police force ever." David Frum via Twitter remarking on Palin's tweet in...
Worst Person in the World
Glenn Beck is accusing veterans of being communists. McCarthyism is arguably in the top ten ugliest episodes in American history. And it's back -- in front of a daily radio and TV audience of 10+...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Americans are smart! If the clash over rebuilding the nation’s nuclear arms complex has an epicenter, it lies in New Mexico on the flanks of an extinct volcano near an active geologic fault that has...
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MST3K Saturday - "Posture Pals"
Welcome to a New Blogger
Frequent commenter JM Ashby has been emailing breaking news items to me for quite some time now, and he always includes killer remarks of his own, so I've decided to invite him to help fill in the...
Nothing Is Sacred
The Republicans and their wingnut affiliates have developed a system whereby they can literally get away with any and all displays of awfulness. They can filibuster funding for the troops, they can...
He Will Be Missed
Congressman Grayson outlines what the Republicans can do with their tax cuts for the rich. Hopefully he'll run for something else. And soon. (via Ashby and Joy)
Bob and Elvis Show – November 18, 2010
Our Longest Show; Terrorism and Airport Security; One Nation Under Fear; The Wingnut Police State; Sarah Palin's Alaska; Howard Stern vs. The Greaseman; Our Brushes with the Law; Dingeldein Almost...
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Phil Collins - "Take Me Home"
Everybody Loves the Palins
This guy for example, with the WTF? story of the day: MADISON, Wis. -- A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a...
Radiation vs. Terrorism
Which will kill you first? You might be surprised. This is brilliant: