John Stossel on requiring insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions: It's welfare. We can debate whether such welfare is good policy, but let's discuss it honestly. Calling...
Here's A New One for the Crazy File
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Author - Bob Cesca
Wingnut Mail Bag
From an angry senior citizen. This pretty much encapsulates the misinformation and self-contradiction of the elderly right: I just happen to be one of those "old crazies" who is worried about being...
Lesson In Politics
Here's how the Republicans serious effed up the Sotomayor affair. The entire Republican establishment ripped her apart based on racial terms for three months, further widening the divide between the...
John Hughes Died
Whoa. John Hughes, director of culturally significant films such as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," died suddenly today of a heart attack while...
Mine! Mine!
New CNN healthcare poll: "Obama's plan is most popular among younger Americans and least popular among senior citizens," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "A majority of Americans over the...
Melodramatic Horseshit
Glenn Beck doing his best Barry Champlain impression: In this clip, he likens the public option to Nazi eugenics and suggests that the government will be empowered to decide who lives and who dies...
Best Healthcare System Ever
This story is heart-wrenching: For the past 18 months, [Craig] Heller has been trying to get his wife, Ingrid Martinez-Rico, the care she needs after an auto accident left her unable to walk, feed...
Exactly.
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Yes, Dissent Is Great! This Blog for Example.
I've received quite a few responses from various wingnuts to my Huffington Post column yesterday suggesting that because I ridiculed the town hall hooligans I'm therefore opposed to dissent...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"They should Tase this guy. At one point with security so high and tensions on edge, don’t you think they’re going to get at the very least Tased or beaten to a pulp by somebody? These people look...
The Lynch Mob
Some wingnuts at a town hall meeting think the concept of lynching members of Congress is hilarious and awesome. Lynching because of healthcare reform. In other words, making healthcare affordable...
Morning Awesome
Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot - Intro I watched this show every day in 4th grade.
Holy Effing Shit!
This performance from Chuck Grassley is staggering. Just breathtakingly awful. I'm floored. Chuck Grassley is the most powerful Republican involved in the healthcare reform debate. I repeat: this is...
Ah Yes, That's The Stuff
Bipartisanship porn has a deadline: ‘Sometime in September we’re going to have to make an assessment’ about whether to keep trying to negotiate with Republicans, he told MSNBC. Obama said he ‘would...
New Huffington Post Column
Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare! Enjoy and please Digg often.
Radio Show Open Thread
Me and Lee Stranahan on the internet radio tonight at 8PM EDT. Listen live here. Call the show: (347) 945-5235 or participate in the comments. Also, Lee will be giving away a free copy of my book...
Worst Person
I really try to ignore Dick Morris. Mainly because he's a desperate crank who's always wrong about everything. But this is definitely worth calling attention to: "I feel badly for the two...
Your Awesome Private Healthcare System
Via Balloon Juice: Newly unveiled court documents show that ghostwriters paid by a pharmaceutical company played a major role in producing 26 scientific papers backing the use of hormone replacement...
Fake Balance
Krugman: Long ago I said that if liberals said the Earth was round, while conservatives said it was flat, the news headlines would read “Shape of the planet: both sides have a point.” But I...
Morning Awesome
Daft Punk - "Robot Rock"