This article isn't going to turn out well for TIME Magazine: Why Are Southerners So Fat? Wicked elitists attacking Mika's Real America.
Author - Bob Cesca
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"...
Why Cycling Rules
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...
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...