U2 - "Dirty Day" (Live from ZooTV in Sydney) Continuing our Zooropa theme week
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Communists Everywhere!
Once again, Glenn Beck goes full Joe McCarthy. Blowing his crazy whistle on alleged "communists" in the White House. To repeat: Everyone knows you never go full Joe McCarthy.
Loaves and The Public Option
Jamison Foser makes an excellent point about the public option fight in Congress: If people who want a public plan and won't vote for a bill without it can be described as "preventing something...
Coup d'Etat
Wikipedia defines coup d'etat: A coup d'état, or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment —...
The Wingnut Answer To Everything
Death. And more death.
Compromising on Life & Death
Without falling into the "Obama should do X" trap and at the risk of joining the cacophony of theories about the recent polls, I think it's pretty clear why the president's numbers are sagging. While...
Cheney and the 'No Attacks Mythology'
Here's Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday: I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, Chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further...
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U2 - "The Wanderer" (Live) Originally recorded with Johnny Cash as the final track on Zooropa
Begging Self-Destruction
Going back to what I wrote about Friday night, there's this item from Glenn Greenwald calling for a purging of corporate centrists from the Democratic Party. Naturally Glenn includes the Obama...
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare
Ezra Klein: But taken as a whole, the attitudes seniors express on health care are arguably the greatest vote of confidence anyone has offered reform. Seniors live in America’s version of Canada...
Please Don't Let Them Win This
Steve Benen wrote a quick and very razor sharp overview of the current status of the healthcare debate. In short: this is a fight we should easily be winning. The political numbers are winnable, the...
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U2 - "Lemon" From the very underrated Zooropa album
The Scene from Inside Glenn Beck's Brain
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you an exclusive view of the actual voices inside Glenn Beck's bulbous head:
Glenn Beck Hates Name-Calling
The Punch-Me Face has feelings, too. Whoops! I just called him a bad name. In other words: Mean bloggers are calling me names! WAH! Now let's spend another hour making sarcastic googly eyes while...
Ted Kennedy, Jr.'s Eulogy
This was perhaps the most moving eulogy of the day. Part 2 after the jump...
Harry Reid Wants to Privatize the Public Option
A follow-up to a post from yesterday about Harry Reid's position on the public option. Here's this quote again: “But there are many ways we can do [the public option],” he said. “One would be to have...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Crawling Hand" (A random 10-minute clip)
The Space Between Influence and Self-Defeat
Something struck me while watching Bill Maher tonight. Not because of anything Maher, Moyers or Jay-Z said specifically. It was just a thought that occurred to me while watching. When Republicans are...
Send Harry Reid Information About Low-T
This guy's utter lack of testosterone is outstandingly aggravating. How much more of this can we endure? During a tele-townhall with constituents today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he...
Wingnut Fish in a Wingnut Barrel
For those of us who just can't get enough "wingnuts are dummies" stories, only a little more than half of all anti-reform wingnuts at a Ben Nelson town hall could accurately locate Iraq on a map of...