by Lee Stranahan Roger Ebert does an absolute humdinger of a takedown on Ben Stein's anti-evolution film Expelled in his piece Win Ben Stein's Mind. Seriously, damn, read it. There's even a great...
Author - Bob Cesca
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread go!
Hearings Petition : Idea Thread
by Lee Stranahan The Congressional Hearings On Layoffs petition is going pretty well, I think. Right now, there's 386 signers and lots of really great comments. My Huffington Post piece has been...
A Big Block of Cheese
"Jackson's Great Cheese Levee" by Benjamin Perley Poore, 1886 Fellow superfans of The West Wing will recognize the headline as Leo McGarry's ongoing pet project to follow in the tradition of Andrew...
The Bush Presidential Portrait
President Bush unveiled his presidential portrait yesterday. The painting after the jump...
It's Been A Long Road
Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their...
Contradictions
Filippo Minelli - spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako - Mali, 2008 "What I want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life... [on] the slums of the third world is to point out...
Lazy Obama
As I predicted a week ago, the Bush dead-enders are griping about President-elect Obama's Hawaii vacation. NRO's Greg Pollowitz wrote a blog entry the other day with the headline "While The Big Three...
Secretary Eric Shinseki
There is justice. General Shinseki has been appointed to Veteran's Affairs. Shinseki is the former Army chief of staff who upset his civilian bosses in 2003 when he testified to Congress that it...
Morning Awesome
Panic at the Disco - "Mad as Rabbits"
Montana Legalizes Death With Dignity
It's only the third state to legalize assisted suicide. Here's to hoping the rest of America will soon embrace the idea that some of us prefer to die with dignity, rather than disintigrating in pain...
It's Saturday Night Thread
Open thread. Anything you want to comment about. If you need a topic... Which cable news TV commercial do you most want to destroy?
Layoff Hearings
A Dream by Lee Stranahan I want to see Congress hold hearings and bring CEOs in front of the national spotlight. It's easy enough to find the ones who are laying off workers not because the company...
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE: Five very serious words Mark Halperin will use in a sentence this weekend to make himself sound very serious: 1) TARP 2) Tranche 3) Foggy Bottom 4) Ickes 5) Derangement Syndrome (tie)
New Huffington Post Column
In case you missed the link... No Attacks Since When? I know. I usually post on Wednesdays, but I couldn't resist.
Protesting with Gusto
We're all wimps compared to this.
New Amsterdam
This HuffPost article is promoting on their front page... Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to...
Tagging Chez's Rush Posts
Chez Pazienza has been posting some of his favorite Rush songs and videos, so I thought I'd tag him with some of my modern favorites. First up... "The Pass" from 1989's Presto. The lyrics on this one...
The Weekly YouTube Address
Lance Armstrong Twits A Pic
More here. h/t Oliver