Watch this until the end: ThinkProgress points out that food is, indeed, a human right. A wingnut emailer yesterday was trying to wheel out this argument against me. My response was that Americans...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Shameless
The Republicans can't stop looking clownish. Republicans will call two New Haven firefighters to testify in the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor next week, making clear the GOP's intent to...
Seven, Eight, Nine
Stages 7, 8 and 9 are bigtime mountain stages in the Tour, and these are typically the most exciting and decisive in any bike race (if you're intrigued and want to start watching, now's the time)...
Morning Awesome
Primus - "Antipop" From Antipop
Steve King is A Worthless, Racist Crank
Following up his vote against recognizing that slaves helped build the Capitol, Congress Steve King doubled down on the awful: "[O]f the 645,000 Africans that were brought here to be forcibly put...
Fundraising Open Thread
Time for a mid-Summer fundraiser so we can keep this place cranking at full speed. If you can toss some folding money into the jolly candy-like PayPal button below, I'd be most grateful. As will the...
Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
This is unbelievable: In April 2008, Senator John Ensign's parents each made gifts to Doug Hampton, Cindy Hampton, and two of their children in the form of a check totaling $96,000. Each gift was...
Yikes!
This article isn't going to turn out well for TIME Magazine: Why Are Southerners So Fat? Wicked elitists attacking Mika's Real America.
A Wingnut Email on Healthcare
I've received quite a few wingnut responses to my Huffington Post column, but this one is the most lengthy and wingnutty. I would like to retort to the question you asked the conservative wingnuts in...
The Nazi Card. Again.
Senator Jim DeMint (R-FITH) at the National Press Club last night: They understand socialism. They understand tyrants. But none of us have ever had it here. We don’t even know what it looks like...
Lying Liar Palin Continues to Lie
Those "millions of dollars" Palin claimed were being wasted on lawyers defending her against frivolous ethics investigations? That money would've been spent on those lawyers anyway. Steve Benen: But...
The Tour de France Drinking Game
Watch the Tour de France on television for the next four days. Seriously. Especially if you've never followed cycling before. Record the morning live coverage on Versus or, if you don't have a DVR...
Morning Awesome
Jesus & Mary Chain - "Blues from a Gun" Source: Chez
New Huffington Post Column
If You Don't Want The Public Option, Get the Hell Out of the Way Enjoy and Digg often.
Radio Show Open Thread
Me and Stranahan on the internet radio tonight at 8PM eastern, with our guest Robyn O'Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It. Listen live...
Rooting for Palin
Make no mistake, wingnuts. We want more Palin. Not less. As much as you can dish out. DougJ: Maybe I’m wrong about all of this, but I think that if Republicans make Palin their nominee in 2012, it...
Worst Person
Brian Kilmeade: Other species and ethnics, he says.
Doof Quote of the Day
"What I said was, it doesn’t do her or anybody else any good to whine about the criticism. And that’s why I’m trying to make it clear that the criticism, I invite that. But freedom of speech and that...
Evan Bayh the Insufferable
What a bastard: Evan Bayh, a moderate from Indiana, said he would not be inclined to vote to cut off a filibuster on a bill if he opposed the substance of the underlying measure, and he predicted his...
This Feels Good
It's about damn time: Progressive Caucus Co-Chairwoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) warned Emanuel that he would lose the caucus' votes if the White House compromised on the issue and included a "trigger"...