Letterman's Top 10 George W. Bush Moments
Author - Bob Cesca
Oh Pshaaaaww!
Peggy Noonan suddenly believes that presidential hero-worship is un-American: The Founders, who were awed by the presidency and who made it a point, the early ones, to speak in their inaugural...
Quote of the Day
"I notice that there's a lot of legacy building. It's sort of the idea, like, they put out the -- the -- we printed off the PDF: 100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record...
Here We Go Again
Max Blumenthal reports on Rick Warren's African crusade: Warren’s man in Uganda is a charismatic pastor named Martin Ssempa. The head of the Makerere Community Church, a rapidly growing congregation...
Anticipating the Breach of the Levees
Super stupid: Cheney defended the administration's performance on an economy that is growing weaker daily and which recently collapsed in spectacular fashion. Cheney said that "nobody anywhere was...
Smoking Out the Evildoers
The Air Force has constructed a flow-chart for how to respond to blogger criticism. I think I would be classified as a "rager."
Bad Blood
Aravosis reacts to Howard Dean being snubbed by the Obama people: I really worry that Obama is starting to create a good deal of bad blood on the Democratic side of the aisle, and unnecessarily. Me...
Morning Awesome
Neko Case - "Maybe Sparrow"
'That Guy Is Evil!'
Far-right filmmaker John Ziegler on Sarah Palin: [W]hen she looked at the back cover of my first film…and saw the photo of one of the film’s targets, Keith Olbermann, she literally let out a shriek...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and such as. Tonight! Why hasn't Barack Obama fixed the economy yet? Why?!
The Constant Variety of Cable News Hackery
When I use the above phrase to describe cable news, I really, really mean it. To wit, dday observed the proceedings on MSNBC after the president-elect's economic speech today: What's got me concerned...
Afternoon Awesome
Joint session of Congress certifies the election of Barack Obama. Go to 24:12. h/t Oliver Willis
Sarah Palin Is Saying Doofish Things Again
She thinks the establishment press was tougher on her than they've been on Caroline Kennedy. See, the thing is, Sarah -- and I'll write slowly so you can follow along -- no-one knew who the hell you...
Heckuva!
The Bush numbers according to NBC: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001) Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008) DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Then:...
Clarke Blows Up the Legacy Project
This is a beautiful piece of take-down by Richard Clarke. I usually don't like to quote large chunks of a column, but this is worth it: Bush stopped terrorist attacks? Yes, some of the many alleged...
Ted Stevens Isn't A Big Truck
Harry Reid thinks we shouldn't dump things on him. Politico: The Majority Leader thinks former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens shouldn't face jail time for his seven-count federal conviction last year...
History
I've received a few e-mails and comments about my Huffington column -- telling me that just because the Bush administration is done in 12 days, we should just move on. In one respect, this is...
Morning Awesome
German "Evolution of Technology" commercial for Saturn stores. h/t BoingBoing
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery. And your random discussions. Tonight! Ann Coulter eats brains.
New Huffington Post Column
The Myth of Bush As 'The Hero of September 11' Enjoy. And please Digg.