Colbert with another classic takedown off Beck's nonsense and fakery.
Author - Bob Cesca
A-Hole Quote of the Day
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume." Tony Hayward, CEO of BP And a brain tumor is...
Alaska's Senator Murkowski Bails Out BP
Make no mistake, the Republicans just bailed out BP: A bill to increase the liability cap for oil spills from $75 million to $10 billion was defeated Thursday by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. Bill S...
Morning Awesome
Paper Tongues - "Trinity"
This Is Just Shockingly Awful
Every day, the news about the oil spill becomes increasingly soul crushing. And this news from Dan Froomkin significantly ups the soul crushing ante. A new analysis of seafloor video indicates that...
A Plumbing We Will Go
A natural gas rig off the coast of Venezuela collapsed and sank into the ocean today. And of course there's all kinds of gas leaking into the ocean -- oh wait. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez told state...
Cofferdam Fail
Stick with the following video to the end. The "cofferdam" -- also known as the "top hat" -- is lowered onto the gusher and totally fails to stop the geyser of oil. Jon Stewart's demonstration with...
How Do We Turn the Tide on Oil Drilling?
ThinkProgress reports: This morning, executives including BP’s chairman Lamar McKay, Transocean CEO Steve Newman, and Halliburton’s Timothy Probert appeared before a hearing in the House Energy and...
You Stay Classy, Republicans
A Republican running for Congress in California -- and I'm not making this up: his name is seriously Brad Goehring -- came up with a new way to defeat Democrats in November. "If I could issue hunting...
Today's Bob & Elvis Show
We're growing increasingly afraid of American idiots. Oil spills, nuclear options, racial profiling, Sarah Palin chokes on history and polls that make us sad. Live this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Follow...
Quote of the Day
"In one short decade we have been reconditioned to be entertained by the most private areas of other people's lives. We've become the family dog who's allowed to eat anything that falls on the floor...
Morning Awesome
The Great Northern - "Houses" (Live)
75 Days and 20 Million Gallons
This is the most grim assessment I've read so far. BP America said Monday that it would take another 75 days to finish one of two relief wells it's drilling to shut down the flow. By then, if the...
Best and Worst Parts of the Climate Bill
We'll begin with the best part of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill (the best of what I've read so far). Obviously, the emissions reduction should be much larger, but this isn't awful considering the...
Quote of the Day
"Limbaugh can play with himself." President Obama when asked about talking on Rush Limbaugh in a round of golf
Goddamn It To Hell
Dead dolphins. HORN ISLAND, Miss. — Federal wildlife officials are treating the deaths of six dolphins on the Gulf Coast as oil-related even though other factors may be to blame. As the oil spill...
Balls of the Day
FireDogLake blogger, and one of my favorite writers, TBogg for this post. He'll be booted from the site in 5... 4... 3...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
If you're wondering why television news coverage of the oil spill is dwindling, you can thank the chemical dispersants that are pushing the oil to the bottom of the Gulf. No oil-covered birds on the...
Re-electehhhhhd
While I'm posting about campaign ads, this Joe Sestak ad is running around the clock on television here. This is easily one of the most effective political commercials I've ever seen. Since it began...
Oh McCain You've Done It Again
That new McCain commercial in which he's walking along a border fence being assured by a sheriff that he's "one of us" is a little creepy as it stands. "One of us" is just a terrible phrase to use in...