While I'm on the tainted food tip today, I caught this New York Times article about the meat packing industry over the weekend. It's definitely a must-read, and since I've been casually re-reading...
Author - Bob Cesca
Republicans Falling in Love with Baucus Bill
Arnold, Tommy Thompson, Bloomberg, Bill Frist. They're all embracing the Baucus Plan. And it's not difficult to ascertain why. Of course the Baucus Plan calls for an unprecedented subsidy for the...
Betsy McCaughey Makes Ass of Self. Again.
This was very entertaining. Anthony Weiner and Dylan Ratigan running circles around anti-reform liar Betsy McCaughey: She makes it so easy. Adding... Jamison Foser makes a good point: why is...
Those High Fructose Corn Syrup Commercials
You may have seen the new ads on cable promoting high fructose corn syrup. The commercials suggest that there's no difference between sugar and HFCS. Of course there are significant differences...
Public Options vs. Private Options
Michele Bachmann is very confused. On one hand, a public health insurance plan would be so awesome that it would put private insurance companies out of business. Well, okay. As long as the privates...
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Foo Fighters - "Wheels" New music from one of America's greatest rock bands! Source
Quotas and Italian Immigrants
One of the places I visited over the weekend was Ellis Island. I had never been there and considering that half of my ancestors came through there in the first two decades of the 20th century, it was...
Who Are You Rooting For?
It appears as though certain Republicans are trying to split from the Beck-Limbaugh-Wingnut Complex. Now, I could act like a concern troll and suggest that this is the best thing for the Republican...
Your Health Insurance Sucks…
...Even if you work for a major health insurance provider. INDIANAPOLIS - WellPoint Inc., the largest U.S. insurer, dismissed a "small number" of workers last week and announced cuts to employee...
Very Serious
MSNBC is turning that weak SNL "Obama Has Done Nothing" sketch into a serious issue for the Obama administration. Which is insane because MSNBC is mainly talking about that SNL sketch because they're...
Schumer: The Public Option Has The Votes
On Morning Joe today: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has been at the forefront of the Senate battle to include the controversial government-run plan for consumers, said there are between 54 and...
The Pitch for a Second Recovery Bill
This chart might be the best pitch for more jobs-oriented spending: I still believe healthcare reform with the public option will create a pile of new jobs. But here's the decision the president will...
The President and the Public Option
Chicago Tribune: Health care reform: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option Despite months of seeming ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White...
Quote of the Day
"The unseemly cheering on the right for America losing its Olympic bid I think is going to be the taste that lingers a long time after this failure. Certainly the president tried to get something and...
Morning Joe
On Morning Joe, they're harping about that (unfunny) Armisen Obama sketch from SNL the other night. "When you lose SNL..." they're saying -- shocked that SNL would attack a Democratic president. Of...
Back At It
Thanks so much to Elvis, Redmond and JumpyPants for filling in this weekend. Easily one of the most active and entertaining weekends for the blog in a long, long time. Maybe if we all ask real hard...
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Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood" (I just revisited this song/video after nine-ish years, and it really holds up.)
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Pearl Jam with Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World" And that wraps up our Pearl Jam Week. Thanks for listening!
'Bad Day for USA'
Via Balloon Juice, this headline from Politico underscored a broader suspicion: Bad day for USA. Good day for GOP? Is it any wonder why some of us on the left think that the wingnut right will be...
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MST3K Saturday - "Moon Zero Two" (The first ten minutes, give or take)