What the hell is O'Reilly talking about here? How does the total number of deaths in a country translate to life expectancy, which is the average number of years a human is alive? I think the...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Afternoon Awesome
Shatner recites the LSD poetry of Sarah Palin.
Good News, Bad News
AP: A new government health insurance plan sought by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could coexist with private insurers without driving them out of business, an analysis by...
Just Blurt Out the N-Word, Glenn Beck
President Obama is half white! Beck is stoking white supremacist anger by insisting that the president hates white people. In other words, he's suggesting that it's okay to dislike President Obama...
Finance Committee Grabasses
Max Baucus and the Finance Committee don't know which end is up. They're refusing to include the public option in their version of the bill, claiming all along that they're worried about the cost...
Another Canadian Horror Story
From a Canadian reader via email: I live in a country amongst people who are very much like you. As far as healthcare goes...I never take my wallet when I go to my doctor (whom I chose & when I...
Tough Guy
Joe Scarborough, with the courage of his convictions, blocked Glenn Greenwald on Twitter. This is remarkably childish. As usual. A while back he hid behind Arianna's skirt and publicly tattled on me...
Morning Awesome
Cranberries - "Zombie" Live in Paris, 1999
El Pissolero
I'm weird in that I prefer athletes who might not win every time but who are, you know, classy -- athletes who have character -- who exemplify sportsmanship and guts. Jens Voigt for example. Alberto...
Max Baucus Kills the Public Option
In the Senate, at least. The word according to AP: WASHINGTON — After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits a...
No More Tax Breaks for the Bathtub People
Congressman Nadler has a good idea: Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has introduced a bill called the Say No to Drug Ads Act. It would amend the federal tax code to...
Worst Person
Rush Limbaugh on a report indicating that processed meats such as hot dogs increase rates of colo-rectal cancer: Why are they just picking on the hot dogs? That's the starting point. After that...
Go Howard Dean
Howard Dean on CNBC this morning debating Maria Bartiromo: If you do a survey of Medicare, most people are happy with Medicare. There are no bureaucrats interfering between doctors and patients in...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time...
Canadian Horror Story
Healthcare in Canada is a nightmare. From a Canadian reader via email: Hi Bob. Here in Canada we pay no premiums and receive pretty darned great healthcare. I'm 60 years old, have had very little...
Palin-ish
This YouTube chunk of excellence reminded me of Sarah Palin's farewell address. Seriously. Tweak the delivery and it's basically the same kind of stringing together of disparate ideas and nonsense...
Pals Around With Domestic Black People
Alex Castellanos, the mastermind behind the infamous "white hands" race-baiting ad campaign, threatens that the Gates fiasco will be used in campaign ads against the president in 2012. Via Media...
Morning Awesome
The Breeders - "Cannonball"
Paging Mr. Tubagoo
Good job to Sarah Palin's speechwriter Dan Tubagoo. You managed to top yourself, sir. The totally random interjection of military references, 150-degree weather forecasts, descriptions of "merciless"...
Bipartisanship Porn
Adam Nagourney provides an infuriating pitch for bipartisanship on healthcare reform: [T]he go-it-alone course could cost Mr. Obama and, more important, Congressional Democrats political cover should...