The wingnuts are crapping their cages over the vice president telling a guest at the Gridiron Dinner about a secured underground bunker at the U.S. Naval Observatory. An hour or two ago, I watched...
Veep Bunker Gate!
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Author - Bob Cesca
Nexus Accountability
Jamison Foser: But when it comes to the media's seeming disinterest in finding the truth, there's an explanation sitting right there in the middle of Gregory's comments: "nobody comes out cleanly."...
Morning Awesome
Beastie Boys - "So What'cha Want" From Check Your Head (1992)
Maureen Dowd Horks from Josh Marshall
This is weird. The passages are practically identical -- how the hell did this happen? I can't imagine that she would deliberately hork an entire paragraph. Or would she? Either way, it's a shame...
Questioning the Agency
Liz Cheney this morning: "And the Vice President [Cheney] would not substitute his own judgment for the professional judgment of the CIA." Not so fast. Rewind to 2002: In the initial stages of the...
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday night blogotubes in America also.
That Gallup Abortion Poll
That new Gallup poll on abortion is ridiculous and misleading. It always has been. Chiefly because it defines the issue based upon the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" while underscoring that...
Quoting the Falsified Evidence
McClatchy digs up a revealing Cheney quote from 2003: "The (al Qaida-Iraq) links go back," he said. "We know for example from interrogating detainees in Guantanamo that al Qaida sent individuals to...
The Torture Conspiracy
Because this is such an important issue, I thought I'd repost my Huffington Post column from Wedneday. Now more than ever, I firmly believe that Dick Cheney and the people who surrounded him from...
Excuses
For several weeks, we've been hearing a lot about how scared everyone was immediately after 9/11 and, therefore, how any of us would've supported torture at the time. Therefore the Bushies were...
Wingularity
A commenter at Balloon Juice writes about wingnuts: Wingers will never be more or less sane, or more or less stupid. They will always be as bat-shit insane and pig-ignorant as they always have been...
Morning Awesome
The Atomic Swindlers - "Float (my electric stargirl)" From Coming Out Electric Animated by Joel Trussell
Grapes!
On a lighter note, I've been cultivating a Suffolk Red grapevine for several years now, and I've been baffled by the fact that it hasn't produced actual grapes. Until now! Look: There are dozens of...
Prime Time Thread
It's your Saturday Night Open Thread. We're ready to believe you.
Elizabeth Warren on Maher
I was extraordinarily impressed with Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel. I think Maher was, too.
False Confessions
Joe Conason: Whether Bush, Cheney and their associates were seeking real or fabricated intelligence, they knowingly employed methods that were certain to produce the latter -- as American officials...
Pragmatism
The president isn't going to do everything we want him to do. Sometimes -- gasp! -- he'll do exactly the opposite of what we want him to do. That doesn't mean he's exactly like George W. Bush. Or...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Keeping Clean & Neat"
Gingrich Wanted Torture Exposed in 2002
Gingrich on Hannity's radio show: "Nancy Pelosi was the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee. She had an absolute obligation to know what was going on. She had an absolute obligation to...
Doof Quote of the Day
Rare video edition: Hey, assface. What about this?