Senator McCain today on KSM being waterboarded 183 times in a month: One is too much. Waterboarding is torture, period. I can ensure you that once enough physical pain is inflicted on someone, they...
The McCain Conundrum
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Terry McAuliffe Is Insane
This is real. The YouTube description: McAuliffe dispatched 60 staff members and 38 volunteers, many arriving more than a day early, to erect 25,000 signs extending 20 miles.
Doof Quote of the Day
"The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know when they do what...
The Feel Good Hit of the Year
Brian Kilmeade on FOX & Friends said today that he "feels good" that KSM was tortured 183 times in a single month. Kilmeade's disgusting reaction speaks to one of the great moral issues here. We...
Morning Awesome
The Flaming Lips - "Sunship Balloons" (No video, but this is probably one of their greatest tracks -- and it's only a B-side.)
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday night blogotubing in America.
Idiocracy
I'm not sure how Comedy Central positions its advertising, but there's something really upsetting about watching Mike Judge's Idiocracy interspersed with promos for Ron White's new standup special...
Afternoon Awesome
Colbert premieres his own NOM commercial.
Self-Contradiction
I think Limbaugh and Scarborough and the pro-torture gang are getting a little confused with their logic. On one hand, they're downplaying the discomfort -- it's just slapstick or dribbling water...
Blindness Cured
Macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness, has been cured by British scientists (working from within their inferior commie national healthcare system). And the cure involves embryonic...
Shaking Hands with the Enemy
Predictably, the wingnutosphere is going crazy over the photo of President Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez. Malkin: I can’t stand to look at our president’s dumb grin as he warmly greets...
Morning Awesome
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra performs Tan Dun’s Internet Symphony No. 1 - Eroica.
Twitter Debating Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough was fighting on the Twitters today. When confronted with the post WWII prosecution of Japanese officers for waterboarding American prisoners, Scarborough's excuse was: The Japanese...
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
'I Pray To God You Are'
ThinkProgress reports from the Virginia tea parties: The guy who says that he "prays to God" that the tea baggers are right wing extremists (white supremacists, militia members and the like...
The Big Picture
Naomi Klein joins a small but reputable blogotube clique who can't wait to declare an end to the Obama honeymoon. At the risk of appearing worshippy, I seriously have to ask with all due respect:...
Independents and Heroes
Sam Stein posted an interesting summation of independent and moderate reaction to the tea parties. In short, it's not speaking to them. In a broader sense, after eight dark years of division and...
Hope
Yglesias on a "good economy" versus a "promising economy": Reading Paul Krugman’s pushback against recent optimism about the economic situation it occurs to me that the whole debate over “green...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Body Care & Grooming"
Slapping Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh: "I just slapped myself. I'm torturing myself right now. That's torture according to these people." I've got a better idea. If he wants to really experience what it's like, he should...