Author - Bob Cesca

Economy

Go Paul Krugman

He won the Nobel Prize for economics. Or as I call it, the President Bartlet Award for Excellence in Smart. (On The West Wing, President Bartlet was a Nobel laureate for economics.)

Read more
John McCain

Quackery

Regarding the racist far-right and the Republicans who are getting them all charged up, I think we need to underscore how truly goddamn crazy they are. To wit: There's a full transcript of the...

Read more
Senator Barack Obama

The L-word

Anyone mentioning or repeating the L-word gets a verbal smack from me. There are still three weeks to go and ANYTHING can happen. Do ever forget who we're running against here. We can't overestimate...

Read more
John McCain

Gollum-Palin '08

I'm not the only one. The NY Times' Gail Collins sees the similarity as well: Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It's only in...

Read more
Sarah Palin

Everybody Hates Sarah

Research 2000: Approve: 36, Disapprove: 56 For perspective, President Bush was at a toxic Approve 36, Disapprove 57 last December according to FOX News. Can we cut the crap about Sarah Palin being a...

Read more
Elections

ACORN

Think Progress hits the nail on the head: When a department store calls the police to report a shoplifting employee, no one says the department store is guilty of consumer fraud. The same principle...

Read more