"I do. I do." —Sarah Palin during last year's vice presidential debate when asked if she supports capping carbon emissions Sarah Palin "wrote" an editorial published today in which she claims that...
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Founding Fathers of Failure – Update
Following up on my Manhattan Magazine essay, there's this atrocity: DETROIT (AP) — Former General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will retire Aug. 1 with a benefit package the automaker...
Worst Persons
CBS Radio for cancelling the Mike O'Meara Show. It's the end of a 20 year era in Washington radio as FM talk station WJFK switches to an all sports-talk format. I grew up listening to Don & Mike...
Fundraising Open Thread
It's the second to last night for the big mid-Summer fundraising drive. Your generous contributions keep us bathed in luxurious bandwidth through which snark is delivered. So if you can spare it...
Sotomayor Meets the Confederates
I have to admit that I haven't been following the Sotomayor hearings, but every time I walk by the TV, I overhear a rich, privileged white male with a pronounced southern twang grilling Judge...
Hooray! Gerlach Isn't Running Again
My congressman here in PA-6, Jim Gerlach (R-Thurston Howell), isn't running for reelection so he can run for governor. He'll lose the gubernatorial race of course because Rendell's machine, which...
The Deadline
Robert Reich explains why the president's August deadline is so crucial: If bills aren't passed in the House and Senate before August 7, the fights in both chambers over the public option and money...
Kept Us Safe for How Many Years?
Liz Cheney on Morning Joe today: "I think it does a disservice to the Bush administration, frankly. We kept the nation safe for eight years." Eight years. Except for the deadliest terrorist attack on...
In A Nutjob
On his show, Glenn Beck runs a little conspiracy-theory-meets-Kevin-Bacon-game segment called "In a Nutshell" in which he loosely connects people via common organizations. Usually this means...
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The Triplets of Belleville - Tour de France sequence
WTF?
This morning, Pat Buchanan joked about drowning Levi Johnston. Tonight, he's on Hardball talking about Levi Johnston. Seriously. What will it take for MSNBC to finally shove Pat's cryo-freeze chamber...
Fundraising Open Thread
After tonight, two more days to go in our mid-Summer fundraising drive. It may not look it, but it takes time and money to bring you such quality posts as the Morning Awesome and the occasional Super...
Worst Persons
Laura Ingraham and Fox News Channel. For, yes, showing rifle scope crosshairs over a Planned Parenthood logo. Naturally if a Planned Parenthood worker is shot by a right wing terrorist, Fox News will...
Bad News for the Pig Man
Your tax dollars at work. Congress can't bother to get a healthcare reform bill completed before their extended August recess, yet Senators Brownback and Landrieu have found the time to cosponsor a...
Apollo 11 Tracker
If you're a fellow NASA geek, this is pretty cool. Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch and the John F. Kennedy Library has set up a website where you can follow the entire...
Rights and Benefits
Ezra Klein: Access to health care should not be dependent on the kindness of your employer. And being employed shouldn't be the exclusive passport to, you know, not dying. But if it is, then why...
The Founding Fathers of Failure
My essay for Manhattan Magazine about the epic Wall Street fail is posted. Go here, then select Page 56. Of course you should buy the magazine, too. It's large, glossy and it has Josh Lucas on the...
Good News for Evan Bayh
She's available: The Washington Times reports that Palin plans to stump for conservative issues and even for Democrats who share her values on limited government, strong defense and energy...
Morning Awesome
"First Person Shooter Disease" Too funny. Awesome Hall of Fame Nominee.
Fundraising Open Thread in America
The big mid-Summer fundraising drive continues. In America. It might not look it, but running a blog that's updated throughout the day everyday is hard work. Whatever you can shove into the jolly...