Cranberries - "Zombie" Live in Paris, 1999
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Dobbs and the Birthers
Former CNN producer Chez Pazienza: What's worth elaborating on when it comes to Lou Dobbs's alliance with the birther movement, though, is this: There's just no way Dobbs really believes the...
War vs. Healthcare
I made this point yesterday, but Thers puts it this way: Stupid foreign wars: cheered for, given blank checks, can't end them. Decent health care for Americans: worrying, can't be paid for...
Morning Awesome
Liz Phair - "Extraordinary"
Very Serious Question
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq were any of the Blue Dogs and Republicans screaming about how we would pay for it? What about Bush's $1 trillion tax cut for the super rich? Answer: Nope...
Crisis? What Crisis?
Of course the wingnut talkers don't believe there are serious problems with America's healthcare system. Rush Limbaugh can easily afford healthcare (including his impotence medication): Limbaugh, the...
Super Stupid
Fred Barnes is a moron. On the president's surtax on millionaires to pay for healthcare: Another tax hike -- especially on top of the increased taxes on individual income, capital gains, dividends...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“There are no Americans who don’t have healthcare. Everybody in this country has access to healthcare.” —Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Americans have access to a lot of things. If they have the cash. But...