Monday, January 9, 2012

Last Call

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White House chief of staff Bill Daley is out , proving that as bad as Rahm supposedly was, this job will chew up and spit out anyone . Whi...

The Canyon Stays Grand Under The Plan

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Today US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a plan to institute a 20-year ban on uranium mining on the land around the Grand Canyon in...

Get Better Soon, Doc

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Dr. Stephen Hawking missed his 70th birthday event , but here's hoping he gets better soon.  The world need more people like him. Brit...

Paying It Forward: You're Doing It Right

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Laurie Johnston was in pharmacy school and unsure if he was going to be able to finish.  He had taken a year off to work and build up funds ...

Yet Another Lesson We Can Learn From Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend his 70th birthday party, but he still encouraged people to "look up at the stars" and seek a...

Classless Warfare, Part 3

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Charles Pierce makes this catch from the Clown Car Cavalcade Saturday night, in his usual inimitable style as Rick Santorum tries to rewrit...

Some Of Newt's Best Friends Are Black, You Know

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I've talked about the difference between racism and assumption of privilege before, but every now and again somebody managed to do both ...

StupidiNews!

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An Iranian court has sentenced a former US Marine arrested five months ago to death for espionage, according to the state Fars news agency ....
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Last Call

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The Iranian leadership may be nucking futs, but they understand US campaign year politics just fine, thank you . The United States will re...

The Attempted Assassination Of Gabby Giffords, A Year Later

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It's important to remember as we look back on this seminal moment in our politics that several people were killed, innocent bystanders ...

The Big GOP Debate Thread

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Two debates in about 12 hours there, one from last night, one from this morning.  Both were horrible affairs that just proved how none of th...

Oops! Papa John's Edition

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So it seems you can get a little racism free with every pizza.  Papa John's customer Minhee Cho has a receipt from the store.  In place ...

Reality Check: Teenagers Around The World

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We recently covered high school kids who are eating chips from home rather than submit to the indignity of a balanced meal with vegetables a...

Neo-Con No More

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I don't always agree with Rachel Maddow's assessment of President Obama's policies, but she is very much correct about her take ...

Commission Of Pat-ricide

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MSNBC has finally, finally, finally had enough of Pat Buchanan's mildly racist crap sandwich machine . Conservative commentator Pat Bu...