I have no interest in watching A Christmas Story this year. I'm extraordinarily sick of it. Seriously, just recalling some of the jokes in my head ("Frageeelay!") makes me a little barfy. And I love...
Author - Bob Cesca
'A Cruel Thing' Indeed
Ezra Klein: This might be a wise political calculation on Obama's part. But it is a cruel thing to ask of his coalition. [...] Pro-choice women and gays were a significant part of Obama's coalition...
Obama on Warren
In his press conference just now, the president-elect made the expected argument in favor of Rick Warren -- basically (paraphrasing) there are a lot of opinions in America and the inauguration will...
Again, What's the Prize?
I slept on it, but I still can't see an upside in this thing -- political or otherwise. Rick Warren is such a terrible, terrible idea. Conservative evangelicals won't budge on abortion or same-sex...
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The Cult - "Fire Woman"
Martin Luther King, Jr. Believed In God
by Lee Stranahan You've heard of King. He believed in that invisible man in that sky, that myth. He brought up religion, God, and Jesus constantly in a political context. In speech after speech, he...
Crazy Train
Crazy, but thats how it goes Media people living as foes Maybe its not too late To do some research And not bloviate Mental midgets squealing Without an ounce of shame They're going off the rails on...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery and also. Tonight! Rick Warren is going to be doing what at the inauguration?
The February 2002 Torture Memo
Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews held up a February 2002 memo signed by the president authorizing the use of torture. Here's my analysis of the memo in a blog post from December 2004. I also...
Ha-ha. Funny.
Rick Warren? Giving the invocation at the inauguration? This is a joke, right? Hoo-hoo! Good one, Mr. President-elect. Wait. Seriously? Rick Warren, a known homophobe, is really speaking at the...
New Huffington Post Column
Why the Media Taint-Mongers Continue to Wrongfully Accuse Obama Enjoy!
The Periodic Table of Awesoments
By The Dapperstache. Click for Full Size h/t Xeni Jardin
Justice
That New York cop who flagrantly decked a bike rider has been indicted.
Vilsack For Agriculture
by Lee Stranahan Continuing my tradition of mentioning Barack Obama's cabinet picks with stuff I think is awesome; Tom Vilsack will be noimated as Secretary of Agriculture. Vilsack is a big ethanol...
Note to Cable News Taint-Mongers
From Mr. Boehlert: According to all available information, Emanuel talked with Blago's staff about filling the seat, not with Blago himself. So cut the crap! Adding... this ridiculousness on the...
Very Serious Republicans…
...and their very serious priorities for Congress: 1. Welfare reform. 2. Balanced budget amendment. 3. Elian Gonzales investigation. Seriously.
The Halperin Taint
As predicted yesterday morning, here's NBC's Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker echoing Halperin's gripe that the establishment press hasn't been hard enough on the president-elect: ...NBC...
Of Course!
Barack Obama is the TIME Person of the Year.
Okay, Grab Your Shoes
Let's go throw some shoes at the Goldman Sachs building. Somehow they're only paying a 1% tax rate.
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Broken Social Scene - "7/4 Shoreline"