Oil jumped to $98 a barrel today as the dollar continues to fall apart. More from Bloomberg. Keep sucking it down, America.
Author - Bob Cesca
Did McClellan Lie To Fitzgerald?
The question on my mind since this news broke today has been: did Scotty perjure himself for the president and the senior White House staff? We know he was questioned by the FBI and in the Fitzgerald...
Giuliani: The First Insane President
Senator Obama would be the first black president; Senator Clinton, the first woman president; Governor Romney, the first Mormon; Fred Thompson, the first persistant vegetative state president. And...
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Mr. Show - Blow Up The Moon
I Love Eggs!
Is a fertilized egg a person? Of course this isn't a question that should be answered by scientists and philosophers -- but instead by the non-scientist, non-philosopher voters of Colorado. Jack...
Driving Under The Influence Of Being Latino
Maybe I'm missing something. Ingram is hosting The Falafel Factor tonight and she's interviewing the parent of someone who was killed by a drunk driver. The hook: the drunk driver happened to be an...
1968
Chris Matthews has been comparing this coming election year to 1968. Tonight he wrangled Brokaw into talking about it. Great, Matthews. The year in which both Martin Luther King and the presumptive...
Outsourcing Our Support For The Troops
I was in Gettysburg on Saturday for the Remembrance Day parade and in one of the restaurants, there was a pile of dark blue "Support the Troops" wrist bands for sale. There was only one thing printed...
Novak's Awesome Sources
You can cram a lot of horseshit into an old withered hack: Novak disclosed that his source for the story was not anyone close to Clinton but rather, someone who was "told by an agent of the Clinton...
Immigration Hardball
Watch this clip from Hardball then come back. It's Rachel Maddow debating Pat Buchanan about immigration. First, note Chris Matthews smacking Rachel for smiling. MATTHEWS: And you're laughing. You...
OPEC and The Dollar
I'm just thinking out loud here (big disclaimer -- I'm not an economist!). What if OPEC decided to switch from the weak dollar to the euro? And let's say OPEC priced a barrel at, say, 90 euros. A...
Greenwald Kung Fu
Greenwald pummels Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd and doesn't let up. Republican authoritarian warmongers who swagger around in tough guy costumes -- Friedman's Cheney and Dowd's Giuliani -- are Real...
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From the 2nd season episode The Midterms.
This Isn't Good News
Oh shit. OPEC will study the weak U.S. dollar's effect on the oil cartel's earnings and investigate the possibility of a currency basket, Iran's oil minister said Sunday. [...] Iran and Venezuela...
Rove Gives Hackish Advice
And we're all supposed to be a-scared of his (28 percent) political genius. His first Newsweek column: Shortly after the 2001 Inauguration, I made a little talk saying I appreciated having [Hillary...
The Deadliest Catch
Your grandchildren might not know what if feels like to swim in the ocean. More from the new IPCC report: Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global...
Cut The Crap, Mike Huckabee
FOX News Sunday has Mike Huckabee on the show. He's doing the "Democrat Party" thing. Can you imagine the chaos if Senator Clinton began to say Re-PUBE-lickin'? Also, Charles Krauthammer strangles...
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Outside it's America...
Crazy Monkeys Will Kill You Dead! Ahh!
The monkeys in India are going batshit and attacking people. "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"...
Never Mind That Beach-Front Property
Aaaand this one from the IPCC kind of kicked my ass: In the best-case scenario, temperatures will keep rising from carbon already in the atmosphere, the report said. Even if factories were shut down...