The New York Times is thinking about doing a subscription only site again. As someone who witnessed the rise and fall of internet publishing in the middle '90s, then the rise and fall of internet...
Author - Bob Cesca
Brüno
Capone describing the Brüno movie: He flaunts his designer fashions, loose and free attitudes, and sexual aggressiveness to anyone willing to look at him, including a group of four of the scariest...
Doof Quote of the Day
“What’s going on with all the czars? Is Obama’s strategy to change the engine of our success as a nation: freedom & capitalism?” —Karl Rove via Twitter Karl Rove was George W. Bush's domestic...
The President Wasn't Perving On That Woman
Earlier this week, Drudge and other wingnut websites made a big deal out of a photo apparently showing President Obama and President Sarkozy checking out the ass of a shapely woman during an event at...
The Public Option Saves Lives and Money
This is excellent news: According to a pair of Capitol Hill sources, preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that a strong public option--the kind that the House of...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "The Magic Sword" This is the full episode. Not sure how YouTube allowed this, but enjoy.
Contador Manages to Piss Off Everyone
...Except for all of Spain, and the cynical bastards who can't discuss anything except Alex Jones style conspiracy theories about Armstrong. More here, but Contador attacked everyone including his...
More Votes for the Public Option
We're getting closer... A band of 22 New Democrat and Blue Dog lawmakers say they support a “robust” government-run health plan, boosting chances of moving healthcare reform with a public insurance...
Fundraising Thread
Hey look! I'm raising money to help finance this little operation again. In exchange for your generous donation, we're giving you more information about the public option for health insurance than...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Congressman Sestak is a flagrant hypocrite in challenging my being a real Democrat when he did not register as a Democrat until 2006 just in time to run for Congress." —Senator Arlen Specter, who...
Go Congressman Kucinich
I've been having this exact same conversation with wingnuts all week long: The general response anymore is, "Duuuuuhhhhhhhh. We hate taxes! You a lib!"
Wingnut Logic
I'm continuing to debate via email the wingnut whose letter I posted yesterday. I finally cornered him into admitting that he supports socialism -- specifically, socialized public services and...
Go… Peggy Noonan?
Via John Cole, here's Peggy Noonan on Sarah Palin: “The elites hate her.” The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and...
Go Jane Hamsher
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...
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...