Death Cab for Cutie - "The New Year"
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Last Open Thread of 2009
New Year's Eve open thread for you. Topic (if you choose): Which politician or celebrity most embodied the awfulness of this decade?
Crazy Quote of the Week
"And I think we have got to get serious about catching terrorists, not just catching weapons. I‘m waiting for the terrorist who knows kung fu or something that gets on an airplane without a weapon...
Polling Torture
Ben Smith reports: Polling torture depends, like so many policy polls, on how the question is asked, and it's an area where both sides claim majority support. Rasmussen's latest finds 58% saying...
Progressive Robocall Targeting Bernie Sanders
Yep. Bernie Sanders is such a corporate apparatchik. Sam Stein reports: The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is targeting four liberal members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate, urging them...
More Republican Terrorism Hypocrisy
Back in July of 2007, Congress passed a bill called the Improving America's Security Act of 2007, which implemented more of the recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. One the provisions included...
Go Eric Massa!
This is really great. Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) goes after Dick Cheney.
Rush Limbaugh
Speedy recovery to Limbaugh and all that glad-handing bullshit. The important question is: What the hell is he doing in exotic Hawaii?! Here's a Sears mannequin to explain Hawaii: Anway, you don't...
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Awesome movie trailer of 2009 "Cat Shit One" - The Animated Series Trailer Production: Studio Anima Director: Kazuya Sasahara
Favorite Songs of the Decade
Okay, this was challenging so I reserve the right to add, substitute and rearrange. But off the top of my head, here are my Top 20 favorite songs of the decade: 20. Rush - "Far Cry" from Snakes &...
Lack of Insurance Deadlier Than Terrorism
Blue Texan brings us the graph of the week: Remember this when the TSA is taking weird all-nude scans of your body at the airport. This illustrates the distinction between rational fear and...
The Public Option: Finding Common Ground
I absolutely agree with everything Jon Walker writes in this post at FDL in support of the public option. Contrary to the stereotype, while I agree with writers like Cohn, Klein and Yglesias on the...
Full Body Scans
These body scan machines they're considering for airport security are just remarkably awful. When we talk about privacy rights and liberty, one of the things we almost instinctively object to is the...
New Huffington Post Column
Republican Hypocrisy on Terrorism Reaches New Levels of Awful Enjoy, Twitter and Digg often!
Bernie Sanders Has A Left Flank? Weird.
I just don't understand this. Earlier this week, it was Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) being targeted by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is hoping that some liberal lawmaker will stand...
Same Memes, New Names
BooMan makes an interesting point about certain progressive blogging circles: ...if you are waking each morning to blog about what a bunch of corporate whores the Democrats and the president are, you...
Quote of the Day
"Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett and John Hughes died and Orly Taitz, Dick Cheney and that idiot who wrote those Twilight books didn't." —Chez Pazienza in his recap of the mostly shitty 2009
The Wingnut Payback Game
The wingnut freakout over the president's response to the Underpants Bomber is proof that the far-right is only interested in a childish game of paybacks. They're simply taking criticisms of Bush and...
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Awesome soundtrack song from 2009: Arcade Fire - "Wake Up" From Where The Wild Things Are
The Tax on Cadillac Plans
I'm really torn on the excise tax on "Cadillac plans" -- insurance policies valued at $23K or more annually -- in the Senate bill. On one hand, I would much rather see a rollback of the Bush tax cuts...