The cable news people think Palin's endorsements are gold, Jerry, gold! The new NBC/WSJ poll proves them wrong. Greg Sargent: The poll asked people how they'd respond if a Congressional candidate had...
Author - Bob Cesca
Military Insurrection
Via Balloon Juice, it sounds like there's a gaggle of pissed off military commanders who are acting like petulant babies: Beginning in the early afternoon, a cadre of military and civilian soldiers...
What John Cole Said
Here: This is what I seriously don’t get about current movement conservatism- they are simply operating in their own made-up fictional universe in which history and the English language mean...
Wingnut Parasites
Typical: The Raytown farmer who posted a sign on a semi-truck trailer accusing Democrats of being the “Party of Parasites” received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995. Of...
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Nirvana - "Lake of Fire" Meat Puppets cover on Unplugged
WTF?
This: Leave it to Glenn Beck to find some sort of hidden conspiracy among the flies. Don't you see?! Is he the only one who sees it?! The flies! THE FLIES!!1!!1!
New Huffington Post Column
Move Over, Sarah Palin, There's A Bigger Idiot In Town (It's all about Boss Hogg.) Tweet and Digg often!
Another Victory for Skynet
Effing robots. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of gallons more oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped a venting system and forced BP to remove a cap...
McChrystal Removed, Petraeus Takes Over
The president is speaking as I write this, but here are the basics: WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior administration official tells The Associated Press that President Barack Obama has accepted Gen...
Okay, Then Let Us Have Your Medicare
Support for healthcare reform continues to rebound, according to a new Gallup poll. 49 percent of Americans are now saying the new law is a "good thing," with 46 percent opposed. Here's the...
Let's Do This Every Summer!
First, BP apparently has a magazine called Planet BP. Interesting. The title invokes an entire planet controlled by BP. I hope there are recipes for "chocolate food mousse" and centerfolds with oil...
No Wonder Angle Avoids the News Media
Turns out -- shocker -- Sharron Angle, the tea party candidate in Nevada running against Harry Reid, isn't very bright. For example, unemployed people are "spoiled." You can make more money on...
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The New Pornographers - "Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk" Live from Studio Q
Republicans Love, Hate the BP Escrow Fund
Classic Daily Show takedown of Republican contradictions and flip-flopping -- including a doozy from Boss Hogg: How did I miss that Haley Barbour quote? Here it is for the record: "It bothers me to...
Weekly Standard Attacks Glenn Beck
A writer from the very conservative Weekly Standard is attacking Glenn Beck: ...progressivism is a distinctly American tradition that partly came into being as a way to prevent ideologies like...
Limbaugh: McChrystal Is a 'Man of Honor'
The leader of the Republican Party outlines the GOP talking points about the McChrystal situation: There's just no way the Republicans line up with the president on this one. No way.
Teabaggers Pray for More Drilling
Mac McClelland filed this report about a pro-drilling tea party rally in Houma, Louisiana. Among other things, the predictably old white crazy people blamed the oil spill on the president, as seen on...
They're Collecting Less Than Half of the Oil
The collection/burning report from yesterday: HOUSTON, June 22 (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N) said on Tuesday that its oil-capture systems at the gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico collected or...
The McChrystal Psychobomb
I don't think anything good will come out of this General McChrystal thing. Here's a recap of some of the items in the Rolling Stone article: McChrystal was quoted as saying he felt betrayed by the...
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Sugar - "Hoover Dam" Bob Mould Acoustic Live Version