What Atrios said: Most of the country must think DC elites - journalists, politicians - are completely insane for talking about "the deficit" right now. Polls show that nobody gives a shit about the...
Deficit Shmeficit
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Author - Bob Cesca
The Terrorists Win Again, Part 2
Seriously, TSA? Seriously?! This is effing stupid: Reminder: Since 2000, the odds of you dying as a result of a terrorist act aboard a commercial American airliner is 1 in 25 million. The odds of...
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Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
The Terrorists Win Again
Welcome to the Police States of America. Another day, another TSA horror story. Here's the teaser: After he finished his description but before he started the pat down, I looked him straight in the...
Good Job, Democrats
Way to hang tight on this: The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, may remain behind bars without trial indefinitely because of disagreement over his...
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A.C. Newman - "Take On Me" (Covering A-Ha. There's no motion video for this but it was too great to pass up.)
Cindy McCain Backpedals
Well, this was certainly predictable. Today, Cindy McCain is suddenly tweeting how pro-DADT she is (clearly, her homophobic husband, who is leading the charge on trying to filibuster the effort to...
Presented Without Comment
Headline: While suggesting he will be set up, Beck assures his listeners "I'm not into child pornography"
Sadly, Glenn Beck Will Be Just Fine
Cenk on Beck's raging anti-Semitic Soros attacks: First Beck started by horribly warping this story on his Fox News show. He said of Soros: [When he was] 14 years old, he had to help the government...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Screaming Skull"
Fall Fundraiser – Last Day
And we've reached the end of my quarterly pestering! Thanks for being so generous, especially given the economic situation and all of its accompanying soul-crushery. Meanwhile, if you still haven't...
Thief in Chief
(See what happens when I don't blog all afternoon? I write lame headlines.) It's actually kind of true, though. It turns out George W. Bush lifted sections of previously released books about his...
McCain Smash! ROOOWWWR!
Cindy McCain, that is. I can't even imagine what it must be like around the McCain household(s) these days. Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military's...
Rachel Maddow with Jon Stewart
In case you missed it, here's the complete and uncut discussion.
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Foo Fighters - "Walking After You"
Fall Fundraiser – Day Five
It's the second to last day for our Fall Fundraiser. As always, if you enjoy this blog and all of the accompanying news and outrage -- along with the most-excellent Bob & Elvis Show -- feel free...
Bob and Elvis Show – November 11, 2010
We fight about the Keith Olbermann suspension; Elvis almost quit the show; Establishment Republicans Hate Sarah Palin; Sarah Palin's Cookie Dick-Move; World War I history; Food and Bob's Daily Menu;...
Quote of the Day
"[I]n America, it's far more shameful to owe money than it is to steal it." Matt Taibbi Exactly right, and shamefully so.
It's Showtime!
Let the countdown to epic entertainment begin. Just a few months after the 2010 mid-term elections ended, the 2012 presidential cycle will begin. Politco and NBC News will co-sponsor the first...
The Tea Party Is Totally Peaceful
Chez reports: Stop me if this sounds familiar: Yesterday, every public school in Broward County -- all 300+ of them -- were locked down for most of the day after a "credible threat" was apparently...