Stars - "Elevator Love Letter"
Author - Bob Cesca
Awesome Lead of the Week
This just rules. George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist who co-founded the conservative Family Research Council, was caught returning from a 10-day trip to Europe with a male escort he...
Lieberman's Anti-Citizen Bill is For Real
Greg Sargent: First, it isn't just some paranoid liberal nightmare. It's actually moving forward. Lieberman is going to hold a presser tomorrow to introduce the bill, I'm told, along with Rep. Jason...
New Huffington Post Column
Republicans and Teabaggers Finally Embrace Big Government Digg and Tweet often!
Creepy Ad Watch
Sullivan does the "Creepy Ad Watch" thing, but I thought I'd borrow it for the following commercial by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. Yep. The Republicans created an ad in...
Coincidence? You Decide
Mary Landrieu on Morning Joe today: After the Challenger blew up, we didn't say, No more space race. Jack Gerard, CEO of the lead oil lobbyist group, the American Petroleum Institute, on Morning Joe...
Worst Person
Let's face it, Joe Lieberman owns this series of Olbermann-style Worst Person posts. And he keeps getting worser. In arguing against the reading of Miranda rights to terrorism suspects or affording...
Your Depressing Gulf News of the Day
T. Boone Pickens was on Morning Joe this morning suggesting that the drilling of the relief well, which not only drills down but also laterally to the source, could take as much as five months. Two...
And Yet There Are Still Republican Moms
This is inexcusable. WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many...
Morning Awesome
Rogue Wave - "Lake Michigan"
Doping to Death
As a pro cycling fan, the subject of doping is practically a daily point of consideration. Shockingly, then, I never heard about this study: In 1982 a researcher named Bob Goldman began asking elite...
Glenn Beck's Hero is a Racist Crazy Person
The historical basis for much of Glenn Beck's material is W. Cleon Skousen. Beck wrote the foreword for Skousen's The 5000 Year Leap, and Skousen's other work, The Making of America, is pretty insane...
McDonnell is Utterly and Completely Tone Deaf
My home state is currently being run by tone deaf wingnuts and demagogues. McDonnell (R), who has made drilling off Virginia’s coast one of his administration’s top priorities, flew to Houston on...
The Universe Is About to Implode
I mentioned this earlier, but here's Glenn Beck today: “[Shahzad] has all the rights under the Constitution. We don’t shred the Constitution when it is popular. We do the right thing.” The universe...
Politico Is Really Awful
No, you're not going insane. This is in actual line from Politico: The ferocious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening President Barack Obama's reputation for competence, just as surely as it...
I'm A Mac. And I'm A Suspected Terrorist.
When I first caught the photo of the suspected Times Square car bomber, I thought something had happened to Justin Long -- the kid from the Mac commercials (and one of my favorite comedies, Galaxy...
Small Government Conservatives. Yeah Right.
Dana Milbank -- yes, Dana Milbank -- wrote an excellent piece enumerating the small government conservatives who are currently demanding more government funding and resources to fight the (heretofore...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“Did they Mirandize him? I know he’s an American citizen but still.” Peter King on the Times Square (failed) bombing suspect and American citizen Faisal Shahzad "I Know He's An American But Still."...
Bring On the Profiling
Greg Sargent reports: This will drive some debate today: A new New York Times/CBS News poll finds a slight majority, 51%, says the Arizona immigration law is “about right,” even though a huge...
Morning Awesome
The Tragically Hip - "New Orleans is Sinking"