This is good news: SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has revoked the government's approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the scientifically...
Another Victory Against Monsanto
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Author - Bob Cesca
Deficit Shmeficit
Gallup polled the usual question: "What do you think is the most important problem facing American today?" Overwhelmingly, Americans said the economy and jobs. 58 percent, in fact. And the federal...
Quote of the Day
“Let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of...
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MST3K Saturday - "Hellcats"
Pamela Gorman Shoots Straight
Matt Osborne made a fun video montage set to me and Elvis talking about wingnut Pamela Gorman and her inexplicable tax cutting machine gun. Go look!
Poutrage
John Cole is fed up with the progressive poutrage... If George Bush had had the kind of legislative session Obama and the Democrats just had, the EPA would have been abolished, it would be illegal to...
Krauthammer's Mosque Bashing
Romulan Charles Krauthammer: America is a free country where you can build whatever you want -- but not anywhere. That's why we have zoning laws. No liquor store near a school, no strip malls where...
Where's the Oil At?
Dan Froomkin found some. Starting just 80 miles to the west, from Pensacola Beach and on to Alabama, the beaches were hit a lot worse. And a University of South Florida scientist told HuffPost those...
Fire Eater Louie Gohmert
Quick review. Wingnut congressman Louie Gohmert is the leading purveyor of the "terrorists using the 14th Amendment to spawn terror babies as American citizens" conspiracy theory. And here's Gohmert...
Bailing Out the Super Rich
The Republicans are deficit hawks. This, for example: A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than $36 billion to the federal deficit next year -- and transfer the bulk of...
Get A Room, Dammit
While the very serious old media love affair with their designated "serious, sane Republican" Paul Ryan continues, the Wall Street Journal posted a freak-out item today lamenting that Washington...
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Sam Buckingham - "Gravity" Directed by Darcy Prendergast
The Bob and Elvis Show – August 12, 2010
This week! The stupid anti-Mosque song, Sarah Palin is a tween girl, the poisonous Republican agenda, The Six Wives of Newt Gingrich, Elvis hates Robert Gibbs. Brought to you by BubbleGenius.com...
Good News on Prop 8 — Maybe
This seems like good news. SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California, disappointing dozens of gay couples who lined up outside City Hall...
Circulate This Graph
Via Ezra Klein, tell me whether or not the stimulus worked based on this graph: On the left, job losses from December 2007 through July 2009 (the earliest President Obama's policies could actually...
Quote of the Day
"Why Sarah Palin decided to get in the race is beyond me. I don't know why she feels compelled to get into primaries all over the country. ... Well, yes, I wish she [would butt out of contested...
Radical Muslims in the White House!
Evildoers! The Muslim rumors were true! Run for your lives! Via Jamie: Tuesday, Reps. Peter King (R-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- best known for his work with...
'The Deficit Wants to Skullf**k Your Mother'
The Daily Show nails the Republican hypocrisy on the deficit and the Bush tax cuts:
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Pearl Jam - "Amongst the Waves"
Glenn Beck Sabotaging Police, Teachers
This is a weird clip. Beck explains that his audience should pause or turn off his show so they can call their congressional representative (phone number on the screen) and urge them not to take...