BooMan asks: What exactly is a Magic Negro? According to Wikipedia: The magical negro (sometimes called the mystical negro or magic negro) is a supporting, often mystical stock character in fiction...
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Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. And socializing. Tonight! The Blagojevich Taint is back.
Franken Up by 50, Lizard People Sad
And the recount is over, minus some haggling over 1,350 absentee ballots. However, Sam Stein reports: Should Franken emerge victorious after the issue of wrongfully rejected absentee ballots is...
What's John Bolton Up To These Days?
Saying batshit crazy things. Like always.
Vote for 'Doof of the Year'
Who is your choice for 'Doof of the Year 2008'? The nominees are as follows. Feel free to add your own. ( polls) UPDATE: Bumped.
Epic Fail
I can't imagine why President Bush was unable to reach even a tenative accord between Israel and the Palestinians. He couldn't even nail the photo op.
Afternoon Awesome
Awesome TV Series of the Year: Mad Men From the Season 2 finale, Meditations in an Emergency.
Doof Quote of the Day
It's only 9:30 a.m. eastern time and we already have a winner. “When I heard about the ["Magic Negro"] story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the...
Cable News Hackery
I didn't see much of the morning cable news shows, but apparently there was a higher than usual concentration of hackery and intellectual violence. From Leigh in the comments: ...over at CNN this...
Super Stupid
MSNBC lower-third graphic just now: "GOP Warns About Overspending" The Republicans are silly and stupid. To repeat: federal spending is the only way out of this thing, and history has proved it. But...
Morning Awesome
Awesome Cycling Crash of the Year: Frank Schleck falls off a ledge in the Tour of Switzerland. "Dit is een drama!"
The George Washington Talking Point
Condoleezza Rice yesterday: "I mean, for goodness' sakes, good historians are still writing books about George Washington." President Bush has been grappled onto this delusional line for some time...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery, and whatever you want to discuss herein. Tonight! Remember when President Bush -- seven years into his presidency ...
Victory!
I can't imagine why the Bush foreign policy has been an epic failure. Condoleezza Rice in January, 2006 on the Palestinian elections: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also put on a brave face...
Our Stupid Governors
Krugman's (again) column this week discusses the 50 "Hoovers" who are determined to cut spending despite the recession. This passage caught my attention: These state-level cutbacks range from small...
Vindicated by History
Condoleezza Rice and Laura Bush were on television this weekend telling us that history will vindicate the president. The legacy project at work. Unfortunately, this isn't impossible. History has...
Bipartisanship
Krugman has a good point here about how bipartisanship won't fix the economy. Despite the campaign rhetoric, I never really thought the president-elect was suggesting congressional bipartisanship ...
Morning Awesome
Awesome Superhero Movie of the Year: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army The above "Troll Market" sequence is a masterpiece of design, detail and weirdness.
Sunday Night Thread In America
Open thread for your Sunday night.
Rush the Magic A-hole
There's a mini storm brewing around former Huckabee adviser Chris Saltsman and the "Barack the Magic Negro" song parody he distributed as Christmas gifts. No-one from the RNC said a damn thing for 18...