More from the IPCC: “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late,” said Rajendra Pachauri, a scientist and economist who heads the IPCC. “What we do in the next two to three years will...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Day After
Sci-Fi is showing the nuclear disaster movie The Day After right now. I'll never forget watching this when it first aired in 1983. I was 12 years old and it scared the living piss out of me. It still...
If You Think Bush/Cheney Was Bad…
...Wait until Emperor Giuliani. Glenn Greenwald makes it very clear: Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and John McCain are all horrific in their own right. But Giuliani is in a different league in terms of...
Morning Awesome
Today is Remembrance Day, the commemoration of the Gettysburg Address originally delivered by President Lincoln on November 19. 1863.
Widespread Extinctions This Century
The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change: In a startling and much-debated conclusion, the document warns that human activity risks causing "abrupt or irreversible changes" on...
Turtle Turtle Turtle
When I saw Gergen on CNN after the debate last night, I concluded that he's officially turtley enough for the Turtle Club. Dana Carvey as the Turtle Guy, Turtle Club Founder David Broder, Turtle Club...
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! Hold on!
I thought the reason why Senators Schumer and Feinstein voted to confirm Mukasey was because they were afraid of a scary psychotic Attorney Godzilla recess appointment by the president. But now...
Rudy, Hillary, Mitt, Barack, Cubby, Annette
I'm going to get all crotchety here. One of the reasons why I'm anxious for the primaries to be decided? All this disrespectful and amateurish first-name business. These are U.S. Senators, Governors...
You Might Abort A Person Today
I've been thinking about a particular anti-choice argument used by Mike Huckabee recently. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our...
The Senate Votes, My Brain Liquefies
I have a degree in political science, but sometimes this stuff makes my brain bleed. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal to pay for the Iraq war but require that...
Score One For The Planet & The Troops
The president's unfair, weak and ineffectual fuel efficiency standards for SUVs were killed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday. The court ruled that the standards don't go far enough to...
Cable News Hackery
Kos asks good questions. Would it kill CNN to not include partisan supporters of the various candidates in their post-debate spin? Would it kill CNN to disclose that James Carville is a partisan...
Oh No You Just Did Not!
I agree with Jane about this bit from the debate last night. Senator Obama compared Senator Clinton's position on Social Security to the postion of Romney and Giuliani. Then supporters of Senator...
Morning Awesome! Go!
The story of O-Ren Ishii.
"Phoney Soldier" Infiltrates Debate
On his awful show tomorrow, Rush Limbaugh is going to mock and insult someone from the debate. Sadly, it'll probably be this Iraq veteran. Again. Place your bets. Will Limbaugh's performance include:...
How Many Attacks Since 9/11?
This is really bizarre. According to Michelle Malkin and an anti-Muslim website called TheReligionOfPeace, there have been... 9,995 terrorist attacks since 9/11. Hmm. I'm confused. I thought...
Proof That He's Psychotic
Dracooolah! TPM.
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Rudy Is So Tough — You Don't Even Know!
Glenn Greenwald: Romney's draft-avoidance isn't quite as shameful as Super Tough Guy Rudy Giuliani's, whose deferment request was denied in 1969, thus placing him at imminent risk of being drafted...
I'm Tasteless
From the wingnut mailbag: "Don't touch my SUV or F-150 or I'll shoot you with the handgun you don't want me to own or spit a mouthful of chocolate candy in your face that you don't want me to eat. [...