Friday night open thread.
Author - Bob Cesca
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!
Wingnut Twitter Fail
The "Top Conservatives on Twitter" (aka. #tcot) group appears to be throwing in the towel because the two guys who started it are now feuding. Meanwhile, Drudge is claiming he was the first person...
Conserva-pervs
FOX News is running more footage of bikini girls. And I'm not talking about their usual semi-cross-eyed cast of blonde anchors. When I first moved (permanently) to Pennsylvania after college, I...
The Weirdness of the American Voter
Yglesias encapsultates one of the things I worry about the most (at least in terms of politics): I think it’s very possible that Democrats could “gain so much power” that they implement at least some...
Doof Quote of the Day
"It's interesting that people say the right has taken over the Republican Party -- but no one can say what we've done. We've been closeted for the last eight years; it's time for the right to come...
Carville's New Book Rips Clinton Campaign
James Carville has a new book coming out. Greg Sargent reports on the more juicy bits, including: Mark Penn, Carville says, was a key factor in Hillary’s defeat, because he “suffered fatal confusion...
Worst Person
Bill Hussein Cunningham. Why doesn't he just come right out and say it? Cowardly old bitch.
Chiclet Brains
Dennis Miller gets self-righteous about the president's tea party comments: Suddenly Dennis Miller is a friend to regular people, eh? A guy who once referred to Branson, Missouri as "Thunderdome for...