MST3K Saturday - "Robot Holocaust" The first ten minutes (give or take)
Author - Bob Cesca
Crazy Quote of the Week
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective...
The Poor Bastard Tax
Max Baucus' Finance Committee has come up with perhaps the worst idea of the entire healthcare reform debate. Yes, worse than Kent Conrad's stupid and ineffectual co-op thing. According to Ezra...
Or Maybe They Do Fear Affordable Healthcare
Earlier, I speculated that the shrieking "I'm scared!" lady couldn't possibly be that afraid of healthcare reform. But then again, if she believes all of the lies from the corporate organizers of the...
'Healthers'
Ben Cohen came up with a great term for the anti-healthcare yahoos: I think we should come up with a new term for the Healthcare nuts - the 'Healthers' in homage to the 'Birthers'. They are equally...
Breaking!
News flash from Atrios: Some people behave badly while traveling. Some of them happen to be bike riders. Shocker! But I'd wager that for every bike rider zig-zagging down a sidewalk, there's at least...
Where The Wild Things Are
New trailer. I can't remember the last time I watched a movie trailer that actually made me feel good. Adding... The song "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire is really perfect. (Yes, I know this the second...
'I'm Scared!' Of Affordable Healthcare? No Way.
Last night when I saw this lady shrieking on Countdown about how she's "scared" and wants "her America back," my first reaction was, She's screaming about the "browning" of America. Not healthcare...
Cryptorchidism
Harry Reid: "I had a meeting last Monday with a number of consultants. They all said, 'Get off this exact date. The American people don't care about exact dates. All they want is something to get...
The Obama Recovery
The economy is improving: Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. And the DJIA has gone from...
As You Observe the Wingnut Hooligans…
...and their obnoxious protests against, you know, affordable, portable, reliable healthcare, bear in mind the numbers from the latest CNN poll. -77 percent of Americans support "major structural...
Morning Awesome
Flight of the Conchords - "The Robot Song"
Go Rick Sanchez
Sanchez takes down a corrupt corporate financier of the fake town hall movement: Yep. That's the stuff.
Here's A New One for the Crazy File
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...
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...