Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Morning Awesome
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.
Morning Awesome
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...
Ridiculous Headline of the Day
Oh boy! Kent Conrad is back in the news. Headline: Sen. Conrad: Extend All Tax Cuts; Time to Get 'Serious' About Deficit Uh. Yeah. Kent Conrad is a the chairman of the Budget Committee. We're screwed.
Caving on The Bush Tax Rates?
The big banner headline at the Huffington Post (see also Cenk's rants on MSNBC) is that the Obama administration is going to compromise on extended the Bush tax rates for the richest one percent...