How many votes have Lizard People gained in Minnesota?
Author - Bob Cesca
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting your favorite cable news hackery or whatever you want to write about. Tonight! What the hell -- let's do it again. Hit 'shuffle' on your iPod and list the first 10 songs...
Crazy-Strength
It takes a special brand of crazy -- crazy-strength -- to haul a widely and thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up...
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE: Five totally predictable news items Mark Halperin will tell us to "watch for" in tomorrow's PageCast: 1. Watch for the stock market to be closed in the morning and open all day until 4...
Afternoon Awesome
44 Presidents in 4 Minutes
Further Reading About Barbie, Sorta
by Lee Stranahan The issues of intellectual property rights and how corporations use government power to make money that I hinted at in my Barbie / Bratz post have been on my mind a lot lately. If...
The Chambliss Myth
1) Saxby Chambliss was always expected to win in Georgia. 2) The fact that he won on Tuesday only proves that he was always favored to win. 3) It doesn't prove anything else about the status of the...
The Clean Coal Myth
h/t dday
Corporate America Screws Little Girls
by Lee Stranahan I have a nine year old daughter. She loves Barbie. I've ended up shopping for fashion doll accessories a lot more than any 43 year old man should have. So I also know all about the...
Their Best Thing
By now, I'm sure you've heard about this: "[T]here's an ongoing Bush legacy project that's been meeting in the White House, really, with senior advisers, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes has been involved...
Avast!
They're still in business? The private security firm Blackwater is planning to offer a new service to make money: protection from the pirate-infested waters off the coast of East Africa. Yeah, teams...
Oh Please
This is a ridiculous story. Ed Rendell was captured on an open mic saying that Janet Napolitano has plenty of time to devote to DHS because she's single without kids. Oh noes! Fact: single people...
Morning Awesome
Fatboy Slim - "Praise You" Directed by Spike Jonze
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE: Five random names that Mark Halperin drops into a conversation in order to make himself appear very serious: 1. Austan Goolsbee 2. "Bebe" Netanyahu 3. Dirk Kempthorne 4. Kuwaiti Amir...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackey and whatever else you're doing. Tonight! Peeance freeance.
New Huffington Post Column
Sarah Palin: The New and 'Explosive' Leader of the GOP Also.
Stages Of GOP Grief
I, Stranahan From Wikipedia... The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying", describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people...
The Saxbe Fix
Regarding the constitutional problem with Hillary Clinton moving from the Senate to the State Department... Article I, Section 6 -- No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he...
Doof Quote of the Day
“We’ve won the war." Bill Kristol If by "win" he means "destabilized an entire region; fomented decades of anti-Americanism; and currently paying sectarian militias to not fight each other" then...
Defusing The Opposition With Friendlies
Rude Pundit: If the great and glorious David Petraeus and the shiny Robert Gates are saying, "Bring the troops home," then you've defused your enemies. Exactly. Or, for instance, which of the...