Yesterday's team time trial. Riders bailing into farm fields. Contenders' bikes sliding out from under them. Armstrong advancing into "second place" -- literally, a tenth of a second separating him...
Why Cycling Rules
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Author - Bob Cesca
Victoria Jackson Is Insane
Have a gander at this rant: Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas! Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn’t like...
Morning Awesome
Rush - "Between the Wheels" From the R30 DVD The Tour de France on my mind.
Rahm Emanuel (R-WTF)
Rahm Emanuel's rationale for supporting a trigger on the public option included, strangely, a reference to the trigger that's attached to Medicare Part D. Ezra Klein explains how this is...
Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Love it.
Walking It Back?
The Politico reports that the president "walked back" Rahm Emanuel's statement about the public option. "I am pleased by the progress we're making on health care reform and still believe, as I've...
Doof Quote of the Day
"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." —Sarah Palin Department...
Thank You, Mr. Schumer
Benen believes -- and I agree -- that Senator Schumer is attempting to supplant the Coward Harry Reid. "If you did a consensus within the Democratic Party, you would find the level-playing-field...
Up the Irons
Lance Armstrong via Twitter: In my room listening to Maiden. Yes, Iron Maiden. Armstrong moved into third place overall yesterday after 20mph crosswinds shattered the field, leaving Armstrong, Team...
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
When I wrote last week that the president should vigorously step forward and push for the public option in an effort to not only guarantee affordable healthcare to all who need it, but to also, in...
Morning Awesome
It Might Get Loud - Official Trailer Directed by Davis Guggenheim (Guggenheim also directed An Inconvenient Truth) Source: Simon
*((Gotta put First Things First))*
Via Chez, I give you the actual full text of Sarah Palin's ridiculous resignation speech from Friday. I haven't touched the formatting. Yes, there are several ALL CAP words, and the above headline is...
The French
Krugman: After all, every other advanced country offers universal coverage, while spending much less on health care than we do. For example, the French health care system covers everyone, offers...
Worst Person
Mika: I live in the middle of fricking nowhere. Can I be a real American, Mika? If so, this real American thinks Sarah Palin is a doof and a hack who's being propped up because Pat Buchanan and Rich...
Go David Shuster
Bill Scher via Twitter: R my eyes & ears working? Did @davidshuster shove in Sen. Carper's face his insurance lobby $ #s, as he pressed abt #publicoption #ourfuture I'd love to see a video of...
It's Who You Know
Ezra Klein writes that legislative influence, in addition to $1.4 million a day spent on lobbying, has as much to do with relationships: But saying no to your former friends and confidantes is a...
Another Reason Healthcare Reform Might Fail
If you work for Congress, you have an excellent job waiting for you at various healthcare lobbyist groups. The healthcare lobby has hired hundreds of former Hill staffers. And look who's at the top...
Why The Republicans Suck
Watching Scarborough and others on MSNBC this morning, it's been made crystal clear: Even after Sarah Palin's latest meltdown/disaster, she's still being regarded as the most influential non-Limbaugh...
Why Healthcare Reform Could Fail
Disturbing lack of public interest. There's nothing scientific about this analysis, but here's a cursory scan of the most popular stories this morning on the Huffington Post: -Most popular story:...
Morning Joe
Donny Deutsch failed miserably on CNBC. So why does he get to be on MSNBC now? I mean, besides fulfilling the role of taking serious political issues and reducing them to peurile advertising and...