Nate Silver spotted a new Gallup poll that shows a significant decline in eating out among middle class Americans. Personally, the first thing to go when the economy serious collapsed was restaurant...
Eating Out
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Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Alice in Chains - "Would" I caught this on VH1 while flipping through the channels yesterday. I almost forgot how great it was.
The Bush Response to 9/11
Despite what Halperin says, President Bush didn't do anything on and after 9/11 that any other human being would have done as president. In other words, there was absolutely nothing special or...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for prime time socializing and New Year's resolutions.
Caroline Kennedy And Talking
Even though she says "you know" a lot -- I mean, A LOT -- doesn't mean she's an idiot or unqualified to be a senator. There might be other reasons why she shouldn't be a senator, but her verbal tics...
Katrina
Paul Krugman takes a look back at two Air Force One photos of President Bush: one on 9/11 looking "presidential" and another one during Katrina in which he looked clueless and disconnected. Both...
Afternoon Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "The New Year"
The Worst Bush Year
Check out BooMan's year-by-year descriptions and come back to enter your vote. Hands down, 2003 and 2005 were the worst years of the Bush administration. And if I had to choose one of those, it'd be...
Doof of the Year
With an overwhelming majority of the vote, the 2008 Doof of the Year is Sarah Palin. The above video is one of the many reasons why, and so we salute Sarah Palin and encourage her to keep talking and...
Morning Awesome
Ringing in 2009 with a video of Scarborough getting slammed by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
New Years Eve Thread
Open thread for blogging about your New Year's Eve festivities -- or whatever you want to talk about. After all these years, I'm still trying to figure out how the whole ball-dropping thing.
Context and the Magic Negro Song
Here's a clip of Bill O'Reilly being deliberately thick about the Saltsman song parody thing. What O'Reilly and, frankly, both of his panelists don't get is that in addition to the racially...
Prime Time Awesome
Awesome Political Speech of the Year: A More Pefect Union, by Barack Obama
Afternoon Awesome
Awesome Mini-series of the Year: John Adams
New Huffington Post Column
The Most Ridiculous Political Quote of 2008 Enjoy -- and don't forget to Digg it.
More 2008 Awesome
Awesome Cable News Moment of the Year (possibly of all time): Keith Olbermann announces Barack Obama's election night victory.
Blog Awards
Always a bridesmaid, never a whatever. Two of the blogs I contribute to were nominated for blog awards this year: Crooks & Liars and, of course, The Huffington Post. Huzzahs all around!
Heh.
MSNBC lower-third graphic just now: Blagojevich Senate Pick Burris: "I don't have any taint" Jeez. How does Burris find shorts that fit?
Morning Awesome
Awesome Song(s) of the Year: It's a tie! Foo Fighters, Long Road to Ruin (above) Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Possess Your Heart (after the jump)
Midnight Awesome
Awesome Stranahan Video of the Year: It's 3:02 (I'm running out of "awesome" slots for all of the videos I want to post before 01/01/09.)