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Media Stupid
Apparently Jake Tapper was the first to hype the Special Olympics story last night. And now he's angry that it's become such a media distraction -- what with the economy, two wars, etc, etc. Of...
Helmets
Being a (not very good) road cyclist, I'm crazy dogmatic about wearing a helmet. My own helmet. On my own head. Having crashed several times in addition to being hit by a car and fracturing my T11...
Special Olympics Outrage
Attention Michelle Malkin and the self-righteous tea baggers: The biggest single chunk of money that Palin is turning down is about $170 million for education, including money that would go for...
Thanks, But No Thanks
Palin has priorities: Gov. Sarah Palin is refusing to accept more than 30 percent of the federal economic stimulus money being offered to Alaska, including dollars for schools, energy assistance and...
Shredding Constitutions
Let's be perfectly clear about this. That 90 percent tax thing will never be enforced because, yes, it's unconstitutional. But as Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out on Countdown last night, it was a...
The White House Garden
The First Lady is breaking ground on a White House organic vegetable garden. As a fanatical tomato gardener and White House geek, I love this news. According to the White House Historical...
Peeance Freeance
Predictably, the tea baggers are out in full force this morning hitting the president on the bowling gaffe from last night's Tonight Show. But again, after eight years of defending President Peeance...
Morning Awesome
Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole" Live at the Reading Festival 2007
Tonight Show
Other than the cringe-inducing bowling remark, the president was pretty damn great on the Tonight Show. Highlight video here.
Doof Quote of the Day
"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." —President Obama on the Tonight Show describing his bowling skills Oh my.
A Tea Bagger Responds
One of the official tea bagger blogs (the one that inaugurates the Coward Rick Santelli as the Chief Tea Bagger) responded to my Huffington Post column. He or she suggests: [The Democratic Party] is...
Quote of the Day
"Atlas Shrugged is a stupid book, Ayn Rand is a stupid woman, and John Galt’s ideas are stupid." —Matt Yglesias
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever else you're up to on this fine, fine Thursday night. Achtung! Don't forget: Elvis Dang-L-deen's radio program is on...
Gulp.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNN Thursday his department asked Sen. Chris Dodd to include a loophole in the stimulus bill that allowed bailed-out insurance giant American International...
Taxing The Shit Out of Them
The House voted 328-93 to tax bailed-out executive bonuses of $250K or more -- at a massive 90 percent tax rate. For what it's worth, a move like this is supported by a margin of 76-17 in a recent...
Afternoon Awesome
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This Is Bad
Hamsher and Greenwald are reporting that it was Geithner and Larry Summers who pushed for the softening of executive bonus/compensation limits. There's even a ThinkProgress piece from February...
Rewarding Failure
There's no better illustration of the insider "who you know" nature of cable news than a guy like Tucker Carlson, who has failed miserably on two networks, being invited back onto both CNN and MSNBC...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"I don’t believe Al Gore is trying to gas or round up Jews, I don’t believe the result is going to be the same thing. Just understand that the tactic used was a device used by the Nazis. For...