Back in the mid-'90s, I worked at an FM Top 40 radio station and when I was hired, the program director asked that I use the pseudonym "Cunningham" because my actual last name sounded too ethnic and...
Author - Bob Cesca
Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth
This situation with Lance Armstrong and the French anti-doping agency is pathetic. The guy took a 20 minute shower, and so the AFLD wants to discipline him for temporarily evading a mandatory drug...
Super Stupid
Ken Blackwell is phenomenally wrong in so many ways. The founders wrote the Declaration and the framers built the Constitution on a foundation of natural law. Not Judeo-Christian dogma. But what else...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"I haven't purposely been trying to be inflammatory." —Michele Bachmann
Alan Keyes Is Making Tea Bags
The tea bagging protests aren't ridiculous enough, so they've asked Alan Keyes to speak at the DC event.
Fakery
That anti-same-sex marriage commercial I posted last night appears to show real people who will be somehow oppressed if gay people are allowed to get married. Again, real people who the National...
Morning Awesome
Steve Zissou kicks some pirate ass. From The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Weird Commercial Placement
I just saw the following very creepy and very dishonest commercial on MSNBC: It was aired during the Rachel Maddow Show. Beyond the weird placement, it never ceases to amaze me how a hateful, bigoted...
Radio Show
Me and Stranahan on the radio at 10 p.m. EDT. With special guest, Iraq War veteran GItheJOE. Listen live here. Call-in number: (347) 945-5235. Or just contribute in the comments. UPDATE: Show's over...
New Huffington Post Column
Glenn Beck and the Consequences of Crazy Talk Enjoy and Digg!
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Wedneday night blogotubing. Tonight! Me and Stranahan on the radio. Listen live here at 10 p.m. EDT.
Losing vs. Tyranny
By the way, notice that Breitbart is a socialist. Or at least he sends his kid to a publicly-funded education facility financed with a system whereby wealth is redistributed from property-owners to...
A Cork on The Fork
DougJ hypothesizes: ...the Tea Parties might be a way for disgruntled Glenn Beck watchers to blow off steam without hurting anyone. In that respect, maybe there's something to the tea baggery as a...
Nazi Crap at Gun Shows
Not literally Nazi crap, but close. Dave Weigel reports from a gun show: This is a place where vendors can sell T-shirts that read “The Fourth Reich: Obama-Biden 2012,” and “Hitler Gave Great...
Applause for Secretary Gates
If you've read anything about the power of the military-industrial complex, or if you've watched the brilliant documentary Why We Fight, the following summary of Bob Gates' approach to the Defense...
Morning Joe
Sadly, I only watched the last 20 minutes of Morning Joe today. Did anyone notice if he accounted for his inaccurate, apoplectic meltdown yesterday during which he both engaged in red-baiting and...
One Week To Massive Group Tea Bag
April 15 is the big day when Republicans will get together and dangle tea bags in front of their faces (for some reason) and to make loud noises. Oh, and wingnut babies will go unsupervised, allowing...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Possess Your Heart" (Live in Studio) Easily one of the greatest songs of this decade. (Finally got to see DCFC live at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia last night. Just...
A Republican Vet Kicks Limbaugh's Ass
Full transcript at Media Matters. Limbaugh's response to a Marine Corp veteran: You pose -- you and your ignorance are the most expensive commodity this country has. You think you know everything...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Tuesday night blogotubing.