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Boner Joke Headline
Looks like there's trouble brewing for the would-be next Speaker of the House: House Minority Leader John Boehner was asked by a liberal blogger Thursday to answer questions about an affair with a...
Oh, Come On
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this: SAN DIEGO — Attorneys for the Obama administration objected Thursday to a proposed worldwide injunction being considered by a California...
Colbert Testifies in Congress
Genius in a very tough room... Steve King can suck it.
Confidence Game
So yesterday we find out that a foreclosure processor signed off on 10,000 documents per month without reading them. Does this stuff never end? Speaking of financial chicanery, I recently was...
Seizing the Narrative
Remember when the Bushies were engaged in their daily feargasm over FISA? Every day, George W. Bush was on television from the south lawn of the White House excoriating the Democrats for holding up...
Morning Awesome
Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You" Live on The Late Show with David Letterman
The Bob and Elvis Show – September 23, 2010
This week! Waiting for Guffman; Palin goes full Birther; The Both Sides Fallacy and the Restoring Sanity Rally; Glenn Beck's progressive conspiracy theories; HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood; John...
Worst Person
Mary Landrieu: owned by Big Oil. Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, said Thursday that she would block confirmation of President Obama’s new budget director until the administration lifts...
Contract with America Rebooted
The Republicans released their vague, America Fuck Yeah "Pledge to America." Naturally, a major component of the plan is to reduce spending and cut the deficit. But, as Ezra Klein noted, they aren't...
Keith Olbermann on Small Business Loopholes
Countdown's extended report on which mega-corporations are purporting to be "small businesses." Hint: one of them is Bechtel. Bech-fucking-tel! Part One: Part Two after the jump...
Sarah Palin Goes Full Birther
Do insane people recognize they've lost their minds? Here's Sarah Palin implying that we don't know enough about "Barack Hussein Obama's" background. How about this? Let's hear about Sarah Palin's...
Absorbent Gate
The right-wing outrage over the president's "absorb a terrorist attack" statement is easily the most disingenuous Republican thing since death panels. I can half-understand some pokes from...
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Blur - "Tender" Live on Jools Holland
O'Donnell Crushed in Latest Polling
The new CNN poll shows Chris Coons with a significant lead over Christine O'Donnell. 55-39. Ironically, if Mike Castle had been the Republican nominee, the numbers would be almost exactly reversed...
WTF?
Here's Glenn Beck today outlining an elaborate progressive conspiracy to create a global government: When people (who I normally respect) bitch about "both sides" being insane, they're simply not...
New Huffington Post Column
Despite America's Temper Tantrum, It's Still a Center-Left Nation Tweet, Digg and enjoy.
Impeach! Impeach!
Bob Woodward's new book about the White House quotes the president: "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we...
McCain Smash! ROOOWWWR!
Here's John McCain's famous temper flaring up as he tries and fails to justify filibustering the defense authorization bill and a repeal of DADT yesterday. Sorry for this generalization, but the...
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Brand new trailer for Space Battleship Yamato Adding... Whoa. How did I miss this? At some point recently, we surpassed 10,000 blog entries on this site. This Morning Awesome post is #10,050. Thank...