Palin in a recent speech via Jon Chait: "After inheriting a good pro-development GOP plan that opened up both coasts for drilling, the Obama administration halted development ... and now we're gonna...
Author - Bob Cesca
SNL on the Oil Spill Clean-up Efforts
I personally like the Aqua-Man plan. By the way, I laughed throughout this sketch, of course. Then when it was over, I became very sad because of how truly accurate it was.
Glenn Beck Wants to Let America 'Sink'
Glenn Beck at the wingnut NRA convention this weekend: To paraphrase Colbert: Beck loves his country so much, he's willing to let it die. How sweet.
About the Dispersants
The chemical dispersant being dumped into the Gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons is called Corexit 9500, manufactured by a publicly traded outfit called Nalco. Here's a Nalco corporate...
Gigantic Plumes of Oil
When I read this, I literally said out loud: "Oh. My. God." Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide...
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Rush - "Earthshine" Live from Rush in Rio
Super Stupid
This is just wrong. Gov. Haley Barbour said that the Mississippi Gulf Coast is open for business, despite the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In an effort to encourage tourism, Mississippi Gulf...
See You In November
I regularly receive wingnut emails tagged with the warning: See you in November! BWA-HAHAHA! Paul Krugman, however, provides the following: For the record, I received quite a few "see you in...
Release the Hounds!
The far-right is like a pack of hyenas -- routinely ganging up on children and small-timers. This time, Fox News is targeting a high school principal from Illinois. The school official who nixed a...
More Excellent Ideas in the Gulf
So they've decided to put a rubber bathtub stopper into the pipe. Really. BP PLC technicians were gingerly moving joysticks to guide deep-sea robots and thread the 6-inch tube with a rubber stopper...
What New Brand of Nonsense Is This?
The tea party keeps getting weirder. Now they want to repeal the 17th Amendment which would allow state legislatures to choose the U.S. senators from each state. The "Repeal The 17th" movement is a...
It's Thunderdome in Arizona!
Not really. More verification: Despite the drug war that has claimed thousands of lives in Mexico, communities along the U.S. side of the 2,000-mile southern border have shown virtually no increase...
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MST3K Saturday - "Monster A Go Go"
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
She's speaking in nursery rhymes now. You'd think someone as shallow and stupid as Sarah Palin would avoid goo-goo talk.
State Legislatures Do the Craziest Things
State politicians are just going batshit crazy anymore. The New Hampshire House of Representatives yesterday defeated a proposal to nullify the federal health care law and to make it a felony for any...
Exciting Oil Dispersant Blog Entry
It's not as sexy as oil-soaked turtles washing ashore, but the millions of gallons of chemical dispersant they're dumping into the Gulf deserves more attention. President Obama only mentioned it...
A Word on the Kagan Situation
You may have noticed that I haven't been covering the Elena Kagan nomination. A couple of reasons. First, because it's reached whole new depths of stupid. And, secondly, the Republicans are just as...
Haley Barbour is a Big Doofus
This is the dumbest thing I've read all day. Haley Barbour thinks the oil is nothing but a sheen similar to when you spill motor boat gasoline. "Come on down here and play golf, enjoy the beach...
Tough Times Demand Tough Talk
President Obama spoke this afternoon in forceful terms about the oil spill: "I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter...
'I begged him not to do this.'
Jonathan Alter reports in his new book that Rahm Emanuel lobbied the president for several weeks to drop healthcare reform last Summer. The president's response to Rahm's weakling begging is pretty...