Continuing on with my obligatory best-of lists. Still on movies, and my favorite movie category is... Porn! Kidding. POW! No seriously. It's porn. Then comedies. 10. Tropic Thunder Late entry, but a...
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Morning Awesome
SNL - It's A Wonderful Life Alternate Ending Have a festive day filled with Harry Reid's brand of Wonderment.
Christmas at the White House
Via John Cole, the history of Christmas at the White House: There's also a president-by-president timeline of White House Christmas traditions. Really thorough and fun.
Christmas Eve
My Lionel O-gauge Pennsylvania Flyer train under our tree. (Also posted this on Twitter earlier.) Open thread for your Christmas Eve wonderment!
Stocks are Screwy
Nate Silver headline: Health Insurance Stocks Decline on News of Senate Passage of Reform Bill; Have Underperformed Market Since Start of Week Why do cartel shareholders hate this bill? Rather -- the...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“This is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations.” —Ralph Nader Uncle Tom? Really...
Progressive Leverage
Obviously there's been a lot of yelling about how progressives should "get tough" with the White House and congressional Democrats. For what it's worth, we always need to be tough with our elected...
The Senate Healthcare Reform Vote
The first Christmas Eve Senate vote since 1895. I'm remarking on the cable coverage over at Twitter. UPDATE: The Senate has passed their healthcare reform bill. 60-39. Robert Byrd: "Mr. President...
Morning Awesome
The Flaming Lips - "Christmas at the Zoo"
Bizarro World
All I have to say about this is, "WHAH-HUH?"
Pollgasm
Oh yeah! Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) favorable ratings have taken almost a 10-point drop in the past two weeks, a new poll found. 31 percent of people told a CNN poll conducted Dec. 16-20 that...
Twitterenvy
So I went ahead and followed some of the cable news people on Twitter. I believe this was a mistake. In the last 12 hours, I learned that Mika Scarborough attended the White House holiday shindig and...
Enough Already
As someone who's been writing in support of the public option for the better part of a year, I was initially weirded out by the president's declaration that he didn't campaign on the public option. I...
Max the Angry Drunken Senator
Via Rude Pundit, Max Baucus lets fly on the Republicans: Not only is he on fire (for a change), but he sounds a little sloshed, no?
Single-Payer-ish
Paul Krugman compares the Senate bill with single-payer and concludes that the Senate bill is a clunky simulation of single-payer. In a good way. In short, he calculates that in a single-payer...
White House Christmas Trees
My annual White House tree post, now updated with the official Obama Tree portrait. Tree portraits from previous presidents (and snark) after the jump...
Morning Awesome
RedLetterMedia's Review of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Part one of seven. Additional segments after the jump. Awesome Hall of Fame Nominee. This is arguably the greatest thing ever to be...
Great Moments in Teabaggery
This is jaw-droppingly creepy and awful. Even for teabaggers. "Our small tea bag group here in Waycross, we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn's instructions and prayed real hard that Sen...
Headline of the Week
News of First Major Progressive Legislation in 30 Years Enrages Liberals Courtesy of Gawker. And they're right.
Crazy Quote of the Day
"...merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?" —Sarah Palin via Twitter Such a sad, ignorant, desperate rube she is.