I keep thinking about Senator Tester's hugely disappointing remarks against the bankruptcy bill and cramdown. He basically said to millions of homeowners: Tough shit. Later! What he actually said was...
Cramdown
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Author - Bob Cesca
Saturday Music Thread
John Cole got me thinking about perfect albums. I only have one qualification for this honor: that every song is strong. No weak spots. No filler. So off the top of my head, here are five examples of...
Abu Ghraib
I was wondering when this would happen: Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently released...
The Confirmation Hearings
Chez Pazienza imagines some of the questions from Republicans on the Judiciary Committee during the hearings for the next Supreme Court nominee. For example: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona): Riddle me this ...
The Torture Party
When the chips are down and we're under duress, our character is tested. Either we're strong and sensible -- sometimes heroic -- or we're weak and crazy, abandoning our values. The current Republican...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Junior Rodeo Daredevils"
Ghouls
The ghoulish senators who sided with the filibuster of the bankruptcy legislation offer up their ridiculous excuses. There should be a law passed forcing these senators to personally help families...
Prime Time Thread
Friday night open thread.
Quote of the Day
"Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the...
Who Would Jesus Torture?
Pew: More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Even when I was a...
Cesca's Take: One Reason Why Halperin Is A Jagoff
This headline on Halperin's blog regarding the president's Supreme Court nomination process: White Men Need Not Apply Here's an impression of Mark Halperin's shit on a day-to-day basis: wank, wank...
Super Stupid
Defending his simultaneously stupid and racist comment about how black people are skewing the president's approval numbers, Byron York entirely misses the point: I wrote that citing Obama's "sky-high...
Headline of the Day
Obama Orders Emergency Quarantine of Biden I genuflect before The Borowitz.
Red State Reacts to Souter
Wow. Wingnuts are classy.
Justice Souter Is Retiring
Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, giving President Barack Obama his first chance to fill a vacancy on the high court. The White House has been...
Bankers Win
Legislation that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to renegotiate mortgages for homeowners was successfully filibustered yesterday. So not only will mortgage bankers and neighborhoods (and the...
Morning Awesome
Anthrax - "Inside Out"
Can We Have It Back, Please?
On Governor Perry's watch, Texas has received the most federal funds of any state for disaster relief -- quite literally redistributed wealth "from Nebraskans and Virginians and New Yorkers and...
The Tonight Show and NBC Disses Ernie
Photo: Cover of Life Magazine, April 1957 Very few people realize that Ernie Kovacs was the host of the Tonight Show in the middle 1950s. And it doesn't really help that NBC and television historians...
Prime Time Thread
Thursday night open thread. Go!