A Spork in the Drawer

A Clown's Corruption

2009-12-22T09:10:03-05:00

RNC supremo Michael Steele may be incompetent at his job but good at using his position to line his own pockets. Even Republicans think this is beyond the pale. .

Left Behind

2009-12-22T07:50:26-05:00

More progressive than most of the US: Mexico City has become the first city in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage, giving gay couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. The bill passed the capital's local assembly by...

A Slight Exaggeration

2009-12-21T13:21:31-05:00

Perhaps a bit overwrought: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Monday claimed that allegations of wrongdoing surrounding the community group ACORN are bigger than the Watergate scandal that brought down the President Richard Nixon. [...] "It's thousands of times bigger than...

Mea Maxima Culpa

2009-12-21T13:05:59-05:00

Athenae: So forget the hippies. This isn't about the hippies being mean and running General Betray-us ads. This is about the political conversation being so fucked up that it doesn't matter anymore that you are right, it only matters HOW...

Victory At Last!

2009-12-21T12:39:23-05:00

Activist Judge Cancels Christmas It was a long, bloody struggle. .

The Conversation We Should Be Having

2009-12-21T08:12:42-05:00

Krugman: Some people will say that it has always been this way, and that we’ve managed so far. But it wasn’t always like this. Yes, there were filibusters in the past — most notably by segregationists trying to block civil...

Pecked To Death By A Thousand Beltway Ducks

2009-12-21T07:17:31-05:00

Pierce: Part The Ultimate: My new favorite futile argument for passing the current POS is that, in our politics, simply by passing the aforementioned POS, we forever will have established, banners aloft, the notion that healthcare is a right or,...

A Bit Of Larry Sultan

2009-12-20T14:00:00-05:00

1946-2009 Pictures from Home - Golf Swing, 1982-92 A 1989 Terry Gross interview with Sultan can be heard here and more images can be seen here and here. .

Overtaken By Events

2009-12-20T07:45:14-05:00

This morning's P-G features an op-ed discussing medical loss ratio, a fancy term for how much your premiums your health insurer actually devotes to health coverage: Fifteen years ago, the answer to that question was easy. Whether you got insurance...

Saturday Palate Cleanser

2009-12-19T14:00:00-05:00

Going back to the 1980's and Down Under: .

Anyone Speak Palinese?

2009-12-19T12:50:06-05:00

posted by gyma Huh?

If You've Lost Tony Norman...

2009-12-19T08:29:28-05:00

Wake up call: To say I'm disappointed with Mr. Obama's passivity in the face of this threat to his presidency and the Democratic majority is putting it mildly. I'm appalled by it. [...] From its economic policies to Afghanistan to...

Stupid Republicans

2009-12-18T20:52:24-05:00

posted by gyma Must one be a dumbass in order to belong to the Republican Party? Seems they are always hollering about making English the official language, yet they don't understand it themselves. This is a screen capture from Politico...

Drunk 4-Year Old Transvestite Steals Neighbors Xmas Presents

2009-12-18T19:38:49-05:00

posted by gyma For the record, I nominate this to be the best news lede ever. The child, Hayden Wright, was found around 1:45 am Tuesday, wandering the streets of his neighborhood. In a police reports, officers said he was...

Noted In Passing

2009-12-18T09:05:52-05:00

I'll likely be out most if not all of the day. And now...No. 1...The larch. The. Larch.: .

PeteBlogging

2009-12-18T08:02:18-05:00

posted by gyma Pete is the Jekyll and Hyde of dogdom and here he is displaying his Hyde persona. But you have to watch your back when the liver treats come out because it takes just a New York minute...

Christmas Trees

2009-12-17T19:37:30-05:00

posted by gyma Here's my Christmas tree* this year... ... but if books aren't your thing, then here are several more interesting trees. Oh, and Happy Festivus! I don't know why I thought it was today when it's actually on...

$26.95

2009-12-17T17:43:09-05:00

Funny: Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. [...] The potential drone vulnerability lies in an...

Homeland Security

2009-12-17T15:05:13-05:00

[Via Greg Mitchell.] .

Purity Of Essence

2009-12-17T10:27:08-05:00

Conservatives continue their sprint to the insane right: The John Birch Society announces it is cosponsoring the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, to be held in Washington DC, Feb. 18-20. JBS will have a double booth with half dedicated...

'Tis Better To Give Than To Receive

2009-12-17T08:20:35-05:00

Help digby out. You know it's important. .

Not Even Trying

2009-12-17T08:18:05-05:00

Josh gets mail: I think people are pissed right now less at the fact that they didn't get what they wanted, and more at the fact that they feel like their people didn't really fight for it. Leaders don't always...

What's Up, Xmas Music (Mostly NSFW) Edition

2009-12-16T20:09:40-05:00

posted by gyma For some unknown reason, I was put in charge of providing music for our xmas lunch at work on Friday. That was not a smart move on their part. So here are some of my suggestions, some...

HCR Madness

2009-12-16T17:36:20-05:00

Marcy points out that what were left with is a regime that will force us - under penalty of the law - to hand over our money to the insurance industry: It’s one thing to require a citizen to pay...

Nothing Further Need Be Said

2009-12-16T15:28:14-05:00

Those Crazy Catalonians Edition of Wednesday Weirdness

2009-12-16T15:18:42-05:00

posted by gyma Somehow this Christmas tradition has escaped my notice all these many years. How can that be? Throughout Catalonia, it is customary for the community to display a model of the entire city of Bethlehem, not just the...

Yawn

2009-12-16T08:14:47-05:00

Time magazine's annual exercise in tediousness this year gives us Helicopter Ben as the "Person of the Year." Runners up: General Stanley McChrystal, "The Chinese Worker", Nancy Pelosi, and Usain Bolt. Better than the 2006 pick but that isn't saying...

Random Observation

2009-12-16T08:05:24-05:00

Us wonks in the political Blogosphere are becoming impressively tired and bitchy. If we were as smart as we think we are we'd all simply shutdown over the holidays. .

Words Of Wisdom

2009-12-15T22:02:28-05:00

What's Up, It's Almost Xmas, Edition

2009-12-15T21:12:55-05:00

posted by gyma It's Tuesday and I'm still boycotting politics (mostly). I'm sick and tired of the nutjobs! Need a laugh? Go listen to Garfunkel & Oates sing 'Year End Letter' - their ode to those obnoxious annual xmas letters...

Guess Who

2009-12-15T20:30:34-05:00

posted by gyma Well? Any guesses?

Finally Called Home By 900-Foot Jesus*

2009-12-15T16:43:21-05:00

Oral Roberts *Cf. .

A Sterling Idea!

2009-12-15T15:46:47-05:00

Minnesota's deeply disturbed Michele Bachmann compares teabaggers rallying against HCR to the Charge of the Light Brigade. For those of you whose knowledge of the Crimean War is a bit rusty, the Charge of the Light Brigade refers to the...

Hessians

2009-12-15T12:29:12-05:00

[From Justin Elliot.] .

Sucker Of The Day

2009-12-15T09:54:57-05:00

Joe Biden .