If you recall, wingnuts were mailing tea bags to various public officials, but, ironically enough, post-9/11 security measures were preventing the tea bags from getting to their intended recipients...
Author - Bob Cesca
Why Does the Dictionary Hate America?
The far-right is just now discovering that, in 2003, Merriam-Webster adjusted its definition of marriage to include the following line: 2. the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a...
Morning Awesome
Drunken Jeff Goldblum talks internet. I'd say internet. (By the way, that ad was from exactly 10 years ago. "Great stuff!")
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
Tea Bagger Blog Fail of the Day
A tea bag to e-mail to anyone who needs to see a Tea Bag If you’re not going to mail a tea bag — as we’ve pointed out, there are issues with doing that — you can e-mail your “representatives” in the...
Oh Crap
Secretary Geithner's plan has apparently been leaked, and the initial conclusion is that it's not good. Krugman: I fear that when the plan fails, as it almost surely will, the administration will...
Super Stupid
Does Brit Hume have a pulse? I mean, he seems like he's forever put out. A perpetual snore. As if life has crushed him so badly that he's just going through the motions. To wit, on one hand, Brit...
Mob Rule
The mob rule attack from Limbaugh and others is, suffice to say, weird. Summarizing: • Mob rule and populism is awful, like Nazi Germany. • When's our next populist tea bag protest? In which we form...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Progress Island" Part 1 of 2
Finishing Palin's Thought
Palin today: "I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special-needs community...” ...Now back to me refusing funds for special-needs education and short-changing...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Friday night blogotubing.
Breaking News!
Michelle Malkin digs deep and comes up with this: Presidents have big egos! That's right. People who believe they have what it takes to be the leader of America... have big egos. Observant...
World of Nahlej: 'Shmeat'
Stephen Colbert is a national treasure. "Shmeat! Is Inescapable Future of Humanity"
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...