This is a problem. Only a third of Americans (34%) correctly say the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was enacted by the Bush administration. Nearly half (47%) incorrectly believe TARP was passed...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Game is Rigged
I've been suspicious for a while now that banks manipulate the timing of deposits and debits on a checking account in order to game the system in favor of overdrafts and the subsequent fees. It...
One Nation Under Fear
Terrorism! IEEEEEEEEEE! There were just 25 U.S. noncombatant fatalities from terrorism worldwide. (The US government definition of terrorism excludes attacks on U.S. military personnel). While we...
Special Comment and a Beer Summit
Olbermann last night. The President has shown a willingness to give the Professional Right not just "seats at the table" as we try to restore this country to where it was before Bush and Cheney got a...
Morning Awesome
Dean & Britta - "Sometime We Win, Sometimes We Lose" Designed and animated by Justin Fines and Andy Kennedy
Staggeringly Young Puberty
Little girls are entering puberty at staggeringly young ages. And guess what's causing it... The study revealed a surprisingly large bump in the number of girls going through puberty between the ages...
Good News That Will Probably Be Ignored
Almost lost in the mix today: A long-stalled measure aimed at keeping more than 100,000 teachers on the job is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk. The U.S. House of Representatives today gave...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.“ Newt Gingrich to his former wife while both...
Check Your Shrubs for Malkin
The wingnut right is out in force with the creepy stalking of that teacher in Homer, Alaska who dared to challenge Sarah Palin on her quitting and reality-show celebrity status. It's only a matter of...
Gibbs Clarifies His Remarks
Sam Stein has the statement here. Rather than hectoring and insulting the left, it's more constructive for the White House to be ballyhooing its accomplishments. Make the case. This, from Gibbs'...
Gibbs Gets Snotty
Robert Gibbs sat for an interview with The Hill and had some sharp words for the "professional left." For starters... “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug...
More Carnie Extremism
Actually, it's more like Jersey shore guido extremism. The inchoate rage at this president is beyond shocking at this point. I understand that people want jobs. Okay, then, get behind the idea of...
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Feist - "Mushaboom"
Sub-rational Hectoring
Glenn Beck and his arguably more loathsome morning zoo sidekick Pat Gray falsely asserting that the First Lady's Spain trip cost $75,000 per day. First, it clearly sounds like Beck and Limbaugh (say...
Centralia, Pennsylvania
On Sunday, we drove up to Centralia, PA -- a ghost town that's been consumed by an underground coal mine fire ignited in 1962. I'll be discussing my road trip in more detail on this week's Bob &...
BP Might Try Again
This is an outrage: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – BP has shrugged off a potential public relations hit when the energy giant said it may drill a new well in the Gulf of Mexico reservoir which fed...
The Second Bomb
Question for the room... There's been an ongoing debate for the last 55 years about whether or not we should have dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. But on this day in 1945, we dropped a second bomb...
Worst Person in the Goddamn World
Rush Limbaugh attacking Michelle Obama and her awful, awful vacation. You know, because the families are off limits. Didn't people used to get fired and disgraced over racist crap like this? I mean...
Screwing the Grand Tetons
If you watched Ken Burns' documentary series last Summer, this will be especially heartbreaking: Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell off a chunk of one of America's most beautiful...
The Fiscal Straight-Jacket
Deficit hawks! Making the tax cuts permanent for all taxpayers, regardless of income, would cost $3.1 trillion over the next 10 years and inflate the national debt to 82 percent of GDP. This would be...