Sources told New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney that Harry Reid wussed out on closing Guantanamo because he was concerned about looking too liberal. Greg Sargent notes: If Nagourney is right...
Author - Bob Cesca
Sotomayor's Introduction
Judge Sotomayor's remarks were extraordinarily touching. I'll post the video shortly. But Jonathan Turley is on MSNBC claiming that, "like Thurgood Marshall," Sotomayor isn't very intellectual, and...
Attacking Sotomayor with the Hillary Arsenal
So the Republicans will no doubt attack Sotomayor as a far-left activist judge who looooooves affirmative action, and who kills babies with her gay-ish bare hands. But more insidious will be, as I...
Sonia Sotomayor
MSNBC is reporting that Sonia Sotomayor is apparently the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. Official announcement at 10:15 a.m. EDT. The wingnuts are gonna crap their cages. UPDATE: Her...
Morning Awesome
Elvis Costello with The Police Medley: "Watching the Detectives, Walking on the Moon, Sunshine of Your Love" From January, 2009 on Costello's Sundance TV show Spectacle
Note to Scarborough
Via a Sullivan reader: But, as many are noting, this was friendly waterboarding experimental extra-lite, with Mancow in almost complete control. Let's see him--or anyone else--take the real thing...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Monday night blogotubing. We're ready to believe you.
Quote of the Day
"The concern I've had about Guantanamo in these wars is it has been a symbol, and one which has been a recruiting symbol for those extremists and jihadists who would fight us. So I think that centers...
Cheney vs. O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell corners Liz Cheney on a variety of contradictory statements.
Super Stupid
Via Cory Doctorow, the plastic grocery bag people (who are blighting the land with their awfulness) are pushing back against reusable cloth bags: The Canadian Plastic Industry Association...
Memorial Day
4,300 reported American military casualties in Iraq so far -- a war that was largely sold to the world using false information gathered by means of torture. The Cheneys are certainly allowed to do...
Morning Awesome
Broken Social Scene presents Brendan Canning - "Churches Under the Stairs" From Something for All of Us (2008)
Sunday Night Thread in America
It's your Sunday night open thread. In America.
Worst Persons
The Republican National Committee for this. Incidentally, it's odd that wingnuts are making a big (misogynistic) deal out of the speaker's apparent Botox treatments when, in fact, the House minority...
Doof Quote of the Day
“Laying aside the debate over what is and what isn’t ‘torture,’ it’s hard to argue with 8+ years of safety since 9/11.” —National Review contributor Pete Hegseth 8-plus years? It's 2010 already?
Step Into the Coffin, Wingnuts
Echoing what Sargent writes here, I'm actually wondering which of the various wingnut torture sadists will volunteer to be buried alive for 17 hours. You know, to prove that it's not torture...
Wow.
Mark Levin is quite possibly the craziest wingnut. Ever. I always thought it was Beck or Savage, but Levin is out of his gourd. What makes him worse is his voice sounds like a drunken pubescent boy...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "Little Bribes" By Ross Ching (unofficial fan video) From The Open Door EP
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
Manly Man
Here's me. Out of town for a relaxing Memorial Day weekend. And I can't stop thinking about Dick Effing Cheney. Specifically, how he's allowed one of his daughters -- daughters! -- to repeatedly go...