The AP wrote an extensive review of the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and guess what? Competent, responsive, aggressive. The AP review found that the...
Author - Bob Cesca
Lies and Lying Liars
The latest tea party meme on the Arizona law is that, somehow, Hispanics support the legislation. Marco Rubio: Polling has shown that Americans of Hispanic descent in Arizona support this bill just...
Another Reason Why the Body Scanners Suck
Screeners tested a body scanner on themselves, and, of course, all of the co-workers were able to see the scans -- naughty bits and all. A Miami International Airport federal security screener has...
Ebert's New Face
Between his fight with cancer and his blogging/tweeting, Roger Ebert, of all people, has become an inspiring national figure. This is an outstanding blog entry about his struggles to come to terms...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Devil Fish"
And She Was Almost Vice President
The level of stupid in the following remark by Sarah Palin on last night's O'Reilly Factor is immeasurable. "[O]ur Constitution, of course, essentially acknowledging that our unalienable rights don't...
Why the Daily Show Rules
This segment for example:
Benen's Job Growth Chart
290,000 jobs added in April. Highest manufacturing job growth since 1998 (44,000 jobs). And Steve Benen's job growth chart:
Shocker! White People Love the Arizona Law
Sometimes, in my more idealistic and optimistic moments, I like to believe that people are opposed to injustice regardless of whether or not the injustice directly effects them. This Research 2000...
Clinton, Pelosi Support Lieberman Bill
What the hell is going on? Several major Democratic officials spoke positively about the proposal, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Noting that the State Department already had...
Oh Those Screwy Republicans
Sargent makes with the poll numbers on this ridiculous "Obama's Katrina" meme: Fox polls "Obama's Katrina," gets wrong answer: Despite the right's ongoing attacks, the new Fox poll finds that 50%...
Morning Awesome
The Star Wars Trilogy told in two minutes with LEGOs.
Oil? Meet Louisiana.
From NOLA.com: Orange-colored oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has washed up on the western side of North Island, the northenmost sliver of the Chandeleur and Breton Island chain. The island...
Market Drop Gives Limbaugh A Boner
This is funny. As close to a medically unassisted erection Limbaugh has had in years. We later learned that it was an electronic trading glitch and not Greece or wherever. But okay -- let's take...
The Machines Went Crazy
Oh. This is nice. CNBC is reporting that a Citigroup trading error was the trigger that sent the stock market plunging today. The Dow Jones Industrials fell by nearly 10 percent, before rebounding...
Today's Bob & Elvis Show
UPDATE: The archived version of the show is posted! Huge show today. America has gone insane! The big oil spill, the big attempt to strip Americans of their citizenship and the Republican embracing...
The Latino Vote
Via Markos on Twitter: In 2004, John McCain got 74% of Latino vote. In 2008, he got 40%. In R2K poll to be released today, he gets 10%. By all means, Republicans, please keep demagoguing and race...
Yet Volcano Monitoring Is Hilarious
Bobby Jindal is begging for big government to hand over its big government cash to be -- what's the word? -- redistributed to Louisiana for oil spill cleanup and damages. In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby...
Super Stupid
What's wrong with the following story? Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list - Traveler Enforcement...
Doof Quote of the Day
"When you look exactly for the reason for the, uh, the oil spill and the slick, there was so much oil that it burst through!" Maria Bartiromo on Morning Joe No, Maria. No. So you're not blaming the...