Open thread for your Sunday night commenting in America. Optional topic: your top 10 greatest hard rock songs of all time.
Author - Bob Cesca
Chronic Disease vs. Terrorism
In my book, I wrote a chapter called "What's The Matter With Zanesville, Ohio?" detailing how the fear of terrorism trumps the fear of actual threats like poisoned water and air. Along those lines...
Afternoon Awesome
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5... with live YouTube comments. This is both awesome and sad. h/t Sullivan
They Don't Need No Stinking Experts
Yglesias and Brad DeLong observe that John Boehner and the Republicans chose their position on stimulus first, without lining up expert support or endorsements. Consequently: ...no current or former...
Stimulus Ceiling Unlimited
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about this exact same thing: Nate Silver deduces that the president-elect is deliberately opening with a lower stimulus number and he intends to allow the overall...
And People Take Them Seriously?
Put aside the record deficits and debt of the Bush Republican decade. Put aside stories about billions of American dollars just vanishing in Iraq -- an occupation with a $10 billion a month price tag...
Morning Awesome
Iron Maiden - "Wasted Years" This should've been on VH1's 100 greatest hard rock songs thing.
Funniest Blogotube Post of the Week
Your 12 Biggest Questions About Hollywood, Answered, by Chris Kelly.
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
Doof Quote of the Day
“It will be cool-looking.” —President Bush describing his presidential library and 'Freedom Institute' By "cool looking," the president obviously means the bouncy castle area. Also, I wonder if there...
African Americans and The White House Staff
Lee's post about the White House chef got me thinking about the White House service staff -- specifically African American employees. We know that slaves helped to build the executive mansion during...
Afternoon Awesome
Japan's scariest suspension bridge. Indeed. h/t BoingBoing
Your Weekly YouTube Address
Krugman posted Romer & Bernstein's unemployment projection chart here.
Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?
Fox News published a report Thursday slamming Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison by featuring a discredited “terrorism expert.” Ellison’s hajj pilgrimage to Mecca last month, an important part of his...
Peggy the Insufferable
Peggy Noonan on the Oval Office photo-op with the five presidents: Did you notice how they all leaned away from Jimmy Carter, the official Cootieman of former presidents? It was like high-school...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "The Selling Wizard" Part 1
Doof Quote of the Day
"The causes of the impeachment are because I've done things to fight for families." Rod Blagojevich
Note to Chris Matthews About Sarah Palin
Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews was trying to tell us that Sarah Palin has "a certain I don't know what" (paraphrased) and that she is therefore worthy of our attention. The reason why most...
Epic Fail of the Day
The paranoid wingnuts at Little Green Footballs.
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery, and whatever toots your horn and/or blows your skirt up. Tonight! Blagojevich won't go away. Where's the shoe-tosser when we really...