In the course of my amateur study of the Civil War, I run into a wide variety of Confederate reenactors. I honestly don't understand what they're doing. I've met reenactors who are genuinely into the...
Sullivan ran this quote from Jon Stewart today: “Even if you’re eating delicious chocolate cake, there are moments you feel like, ‘I’ve had too much.’ Now replace ‘chocolate cake’ with ‘shit taco’...
Take a guess. Give up? It's a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life -- a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray and eel. New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV reports...
If anyone tries to tell you that the tea party doesn't prey upon racial resentment/fear as a means of recruiting and rallying its members -- the very definition of the Southern Strategy -- feel free...
Chris Dodd is threatening to block Elizabeth Warren: Outgoing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) warned Tuesday that an interim appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection...
Sneaky bastards: NEW YORK — The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten up its image with a new name: corn sugar. The bid to rename the sweetener by the Corn Refiners Association comes as...
Via Joe Pompeo, here's the clip in which he says it point-blank: Lest anyone get the impression he's some kind of populist progressive.
It's okay to run on progressive policies in swing districts. Proof: Tom Perriello in Virginia, Carol Shea-Porter in New Hampshire, Alan Grayson in Florida, Mary Jo Kilroy in Ohio and John Hall in New...
Her self-imposed bubble of protection from the regular press is beginning to develop into full-blown public paranoia. She spoke in Missoula, MT on Sunday and the Missoulian reports that she whining...
Day two of the old media's whiplash at Newt Gingrich's Birther remarks. Naturally, the press is ignoring a long history of both racially questionable statements and over-the-top extremist positions...
Stereophonics - "Maybe Tomorrow"
This would pretty much rule the damn school. The White House is considering appointing Elizabeth Warren as interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, bypassing a likely Senate...
Bloomberg: The U.S. government posted a smaller budget deficit in August compared with the same month last year, helped by rising tax receipts. The excess of spending over revenue totaled $90.5...
"So I'm going to have to stage a series of tricks to get the mainstream media to have to pay attention to it. So that's what I did. I admit it, I tricked you." Andrew Breitbart admitting to scamming...
The leader of the Senate Republicans (and albino sleestak) Mitch McConnell evidently hates tax cuts for the middle class: Senate Republicans will oppose any effort to renew soon-to-expire Bush...
My heart goes out to the people of San Bruno, California where a gas explosion ripped through the neighborhood. The above photo is actually the house where I grew up in Annandale, Virginia. When I...
This is pretty damn great: A would-be Koran-burner in Amarillo, Texas was foiled by a 23-year-old Texas skateboarder named Jacob Isom, who was among a group of people protesting a planned burning on...
Ken Layne at Wonkette has a classic review of Saturday's Beck-Palin 9/11 Festish-Con. Here's a sample: It was a classic case of bait and switch. The Palin/Beck NineEleven™ Porno Deathfest was a LIE...
This is utterly astonishing. It looks like there’s a real possibility of a major upset in the Delaware Senate primary on Tuesday night, with insurgent conservative Christine O’Donnell leading...
The Morning Joe crew treats Newt's Full Birther move with appropriate incredulity: Answer to Joe's "what's he doing?" Newt is kissing up to the AM talk radio crowd who are mostly with Palin at this...
