As the waves crash in on the western shore, it's your Thursday night open thread. Don't forget Elvis Dingeldein's Gut Reaction tonight! Former Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorenson is on the show...
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Krikorian Digs Deeper
Remember the NRO wingnut who wrote yesterday about how we should pronounce "Sotomayor" however the hell we feel like pronouncing it? He's digging a deeper hole for himself: [F]or those actually...
Cookies Kept Us Safe
Ali Soufan, who also attained mountains of information from his hands-off interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, tells TIME Magazine that interrogators were able to get valuable information from an al-Qaeda...
Oh, Dennis Miller.
Why did you let the terrorists steal your funny? This is so unfunny and really damn awful. A Flamenco dance? Really?
Correction
I wrote earlier that Mankiw's Dead Granny Hates Judge's Spending Habits attack was the dumbest attack against anyone ever. I was wrong. Michelle Malkin and the wingnutosphere are claiming that most...
Super Stupid
Hang on tight. This is quite possibly the dumbest attack against anyone ever. Conservative economist Greg Mankiw: Apparently, the new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an example of the latter...
POW! ZING! HOOT!
Comic artist and writer Bill Predergast is working on a Michele Bachmann comic book. By the way, I still haven't determined whether that "Liberality" comic featuring Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy is a...
Morning Awesome
The Police - Synchronicity Live (Continuing the impromptu theme week with The Police.)
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Me and Lee Stranahan on the radio tonight at 10 p.m. EDT. Listen live here. First time caller night! We're ready to believe you! Call the show: (347) 945-5235 Or participate in the comments. UPDATE:...
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Wednesday night open thread. Couple of programming notes. First, no Huffington Post column this week. I'm working on a print article which I'll announce next week. Also, me and Lee on the radio...
They're Getting Crazier By The Second
Wingnut Mark Krikorian for example: Deferring to people’s own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there ought to be limits. Putting the emphasis on the final...
Worst Person in the World
The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb. For this: "Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl -- that is, only by having a black president, an Hispanic justice, a female secretary...
Time Killer
Empire Online posted a painting titled "Cryptic Canvas" in which there are clues for 50 popular movies. If you're a movie fan and insanely bored right now, this will absolutely kill a pile of time...
Identity
Yeah, this is about right: Apparently the only way to avoid "identity politics" to pick white men for every job. What's worse is that the Republicans are absolutely the party of cynical dress-up...
Quote of the Day
"I look forward to the ads in 2010 and 2012 that explain how “Presidente Obama y los Democrats” were con Justice Sotomayor and how the Republicans were contra Justice Sotomayor." —Oliver Willis on...
The Genius Ed Schultz
Why would Ed Schultz invite Tom Tancredo onto his show -- a known anti-immigration wingnut, and a guy who doesn't hold any position of authority right now -- to comment on Judge Sotomayor? Of course...
Intellect
Karl Rove: "I’m not really certain how intellectually strong she would be, she has not been very strong on the second circuit." Republican intellect: Republican intellect:
'And The Sun Sets in the West'
You may have heard this lie from the far-right already. Basically, they're claiming that 80 percent of Judge Sotomayor's decisions were overturned by the Supreme Court. That makes it sound as though...
Morning Awesome
Alanis Morissette - Covering "King of Pain" by The Police (It's turning into an impromptu theme week with The Police.)
That's Rich.
Here's an hilarious thing. The Republicans -- the party of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin -- are attacking Sonia Sotomayor's intellect. Suddenly intellectualism is important for a party that thinks...