The New Pornographers - "Challengers"
Author - Bob Cesca
Weird Brady Moment
I flipped past TV Land and caught a few minutes of a first-season episode of The Brady Bunch -- the one with the kids fighting about the club house and sharing, etc. Carol asks Mike how he'd feel if...
One Nation Under Fear
Chalk up another victory for fear and paranoia: Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Money Talks" Part 1 UPDATE: Part 2 after the jump.
The Cul-de-Sac
Krugman: Today, Republicans have taken away almost all those Southern votes — and lost the rest of the country. It was a grand ride for a while, but in the end the Southern strategy led the G.O.P...
Your Legacy Sucks, Mr. President
Just take a look at 2008 alone, according to numbers compiled by Think Progress: – Number Of U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq: 322. – Number Of U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan: 151. – Number Of Jobs...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. And other miscellany. Tonight! MSNBC is showing a marathon of caught-on-tape videos. Very serious!
Republicans, Lizard People Threaten Filibuster
Cornyn wants to wear the diapers: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) threatened Friday to filibuster any attempt to seat Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken next week. I don't quite know how to...
Afternoon Awesome
The West Wing - Obama style The only thing missing is the "as the president" text below Obama's name. But I nitpick. h/t Laffy
The Axis of Capitulation
The president-elect is meeting with Speaker Pelosi on Monday to outline a strategy for the stimulus package. And of course there are several groups of doofs who are planning to get all up in it...
Pollgasm
This is pretty amazing: A national poll suggests that three-quarters of the public thinks President-elect Barack Obama is a strong and decisive leader, the highest marks for a president-elect on that...
Eating Out
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...
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...