U2 - "The Wanderer" (Live) Originally recorded with Johnny Cash as the final track on Zooropa
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Renaming 'The Public Option'
I don't know how to feel about this on-going gripe that the Democrats are bad at naming important legislative agenda items, while the Republicans appear to be excellent at it. For example: death...
Dick Armey Supports the Public Option
He just doesn't know it. "If you in fact freely choose to enroll in Medicare that's a wonderful gift, it's a charity, it's something I applaud. But when they force you in, that's tyranny." Actually...
Tenthers?
An array of prominent wingnuts believe that the Tenth Amendment dictates that the federal government shouldn't be meddling in a variety of "unconstitutional" programs -- including the federal highway...
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Butthole Surfers - "Pepper" (I was doing some serious climbs on my ride yesterday and this song was running through my head.)
Glenn Beck, You Magnificent Moran
Oligarhy?! What the hell is oligarhy? Of course he meant to spell "Oligarchy." But his stupid acronym trick didn't have a "C" in it. I hope the wingnuts were taking notes, though, so they have Beck's...
Watch Rachel Maddow Tonight
Just saying. UPDATE: The 'One More Thing' segment: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Crazy Quote of the Day
"We're almost reaching a revolution in this country." —Senator Inhofe (R-Secret Crawlspace with Mutilated Dolls) This guy is a United States senator and some people still take him very seriously. Can...