MST3K Saturday - "The Atomic Brain" (Adding... Light blogging today.)
Author - Bob Cesca
Ignoring the Racists?
Dave Weigel is an outstanding progressive writer, but I really disagree with the premise of this statement: It's just that they should know that calling out a group for "racism" is pointless ...
Bob and Elvis Show – July 15, 2010
This week! My Mel Gibson-ish phone call to Elvis. We talk about Elvis' Griswold-style family road trip to Mt. Rushmore. Also, stimulus versus deficit reduction and Sarah Palin's denial of the...
Accountability vs. The Free Market
Chez Pazienza on Goldman, BP and other (apparently immortal) corporations: These monolithic entities aren't simply too big to fail. They're too big to even effectively punish. Now, can you imagine if...
Worst Person
Senator David Vitter for this: MALE HOST: I wonder if Senator Vitter is ever going to post, like, maybe the video of the first time he was on the floor of the Senate. If I have to show the way I...
The Blame Game
I don't often post silly political Photoshops, but this one made me laugh out loud. (After the jump.) It's actually the perfect companion to this one.
The Worst Unemployment News Yet
Via Ezra Klein, Brookings has some scary projections on job creation and the unemployment rate. ...adding new jobs at a rate of 200,000 a month would take us 150 months -- or 12.5 years -- to get...
Flip. Flop.
Greenspan finally sees the light on the Bush tax cuts. July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose endorsement of George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts helped persuade...
Morning Awesome
The Animated History of Nuclear Weapons Tests (Hang with this one. It starts out slow, but by the 1950s, you're going to freak out at all of the nuclear tests that were taking place -- too many of...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Well, in that audience will they let me say I need $25 dollars from a million people go to Sharron Angle.com send money? Will they let me say that?" Sharron Angle complaining that Fox News is the...
No Racism Here
Via John Cole, Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams apparently let fly with the truth about the movement's racism and use of the Southern Strategy to boost membership. Yep, Williams posted a...
Walley World! New Bob and Elvis Show
Just a reminder -- today's all new episode of the Bob & Elvis Show brought to you by Bubble Genius is posted!Go listen and spread the word.
The Oil Gusher Has Stopped
Could this be for real? NEW ORLEANS - BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April. BP has been slowly dialing down the flow as part of a test on a new cap. Engineers...
Republican Priorities
McClatchy reports: Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5 million people who've lost them, because they say it would increase...
Mark Halperin on Palin's Cartoonish Taint
I hope Palin sends Halperin -- ostensibly a member of the "lamestream media" -- a thank you note for his glowing love letter. Here's Halperin's review of Palin's "mama grizzly" video, for example. ...
Chart of the Week
Just so we're all clear on what contributed most to the current deficit, here's a convenient chart from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explaining it: Oh but clearly both sides are...
Deficit Shocker
It turns out the media-fueled Washington meme that Americans are freaked out about the deficit and want Congress to "stop spending" is mostly untrue. Fifty-two percent of voters told CBS that...
Morning Awesome
Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
More Stimulus, If You Please
Because the Fed can't do much of anything. Members of the Federal Reserve lowered their expectations for economic growth and raised their projections of the nation's unemployment rate, cautioning for...
Quote of the Day
"The difference between the Panthers and other freakish groups that look good on the air, of course, is that that they threaten white people." Dave Weigel in his blog entry 'Megyn Kelly's minstrel...