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Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
BLU - "BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end"
Tax the Poor
I seldom take seriously the cable news doofery of Stephen Moore, but this is difficult to ignore: I just don’t see the sense of this. In fact, if I could have my ‘druthers, I’d raise the ten percent...
She's Going to Run
They're beginning to carve out a serious political leadership role for Sarah Palin in the Republican Party. Some cable news people were even talking about her as the next chairman of the RNC. But I...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look...
Bob and Elvis Show Update
Two items of news today.First, Elvis is on the road today, evidently wrestling bears in the woods of the Dakotas somewhere. So we'll be recording the show tomorrow (Friday) instead of today.Second...
The Dispersants Aren't Helping
Tar balls have entered Lake Pontchartrain, and it's all because of the disperants pushing oil far below the reach of skimmers. St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis said Wednesday that the...
Morning Awesome
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Road Trippin'"
Worst Person
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and wingnut/teabagger Terry Savage for publicly badgering and hectoring two little girls for giving away free lemonade at their lemonade stand. Evidently she was being...
Pray and Pass the Ammunition
Bobby Jindal is addressing the urgent needs of Louisiana: Jindal's office said Tuesday the governor acted on the bill in the past few days after receiving it June 20. Including the "gun-in-church"...
Best Person
Arnold Shwarzenegger for this: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed A.B. 1437, a bill backed by The Humane Society of the United States that requires that starting in 2015 all shell (whole) eggs...
BP Nation
While attempting to take pictures of the spill, photographer Lance Rosenfield was detained by a BP security goon and someone claiming to be Homeland Security. Linkins also notes the Mac McClelland...
Steele Crazy After All These Years
Jon Stewart on Michael Steele. Yes, the puppet is back.
Denial Has Evaporated
Barbara raises a good point. Where are the climate crisis deniers this week as record heat sweeps the nation? If a few snowstorms on the east coast meant no global warming, then wouldn't wingnut...
Morning Awesome
NSFW! Brian Maupin - "iPhone4 vs HTC Evo" This is brilliant. And the kid who created it was suspended from his gig at Best Buy. Adding... Light blogging today. On the road.
WTF?
Russ Feingold is ballyhooing some rather strange sources: In a release accompanying his first radio ad in Wisconsin, Feingold's campaign runs through a laundry list of conservative supporters. "The...
Aspartame is Poison
This article by Dr. Joseph Mercola summarizes basically everything you need to know about the artificial sweetener aspartame -- aka. "Animosweet." Like high fructose corn syrup, it's everywhere. For...
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
Rude Pundit takes down a big, wet bucket of stupid in Sarah Palin's new Facebook screed. "Something has to be done urgently to stop the out of control Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine, and no...
The Elusive Path to Liberal Lawmaking
Jon Cohn wrote a quick response to Robert Kuttner's post here and, generally, the ongoing liberal dissatisfaction with the Obama administration. Among other points, Cohn points out the congressional...
Stupid Drudge Thing of the Day
Drudge is running this ALL CAPS headline right now: BIG SIS BLOCKS WEBSITES WITH 'CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS' IEEEEE! Janet Napolitano is censoring the internet! Actually, she's not. It turns out, the...