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William Jacobson, possibly the stupidest Associate Clinical Professor of Law in America, on NY23: There is a political earthquake breaking in the NY-23 race. Republican insider Dede Scazzafava has quit the race, as reported first by Robert Stacey McCain, who is on the scene in upstate NY. HotAir is collecting the sources and information. This [...]

Bill Hennesy who “edits” stlouisteaparty.com (because a blog that gets 480 hits a day requires a real hands-on no-nonsense editor to keep it all focused and shit)  takes to the pages of Andrew Breitbart’s BigSocialistACORN!!ACORN!!Government and goes all St. Crispin’s Teabagging Day because they are totally going to elect Doug Hoffman to be the most [...]

As we gird our loins preparing for Citizen Sarah’s Coming Out Party, it’s probably worthwhile to remind ourselves that we are witnessing the beginning of two separate but occasionally converging story lines that will continue only as long as Palin’s handlers (and Palin herself) can dazzle the rubes with homilies and shiny objects. One story [...]

As you can tell from Fluffy McBeckham, cold weather is officially here in San Diego, and by “cold weather”  we mean in the mid-to-low sixties. Brrrrr. Snow cannot be far behind or, at the very least, that “killing frost” from that Wildfire song. We’ve never had a basset quite as thick-coated as Beckham, but he’s [...]

South Sexytime Carolina, the Do Me State, is in the news again. Yay! Carousing governors, the gay and pretend-not-gay politicos, and the Pleasure-Me Bored of Education Lady have someone new to add to their Thursday night key parties. Welcome Roland Corning! Drop your pants and sit a spell: A deputy assistant attorney general who said [...]

Home late. Let’s get started: El Caporal – My Morning Jacket Untitled 5 – Sigur Ros The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be – The Magnetic Fields Metal Baby – Teenage Fanclub The Groover – Marc Bolan & T. Rex My Philosophy – Boogie Down Productions When You Smile – Dream Syndicate Dory Previn – [...]

Spanning the globe and covering the most important news you can use, MSNBC asks true believers to review the midnight showing of The Film of The Rehearsals of  The Concert Tour That Probably Never Would Have Happened Inevitably Leading To More Lawsuits: “He was a national treasure. This intimate look into the atelier of artist [...]

With the rare exception of something truly riveting I have a habit of reading two to three books at a time which is part my hummingbird on Red Bull attention span and part “sometimes you feel like a nut, some times you don’t”. Most times the books are diverse enough that they remain distinct entities [...]

Republican Members of Congress want to give medals and valuable prizes to the gazillion teabaggers who came to Washington on 9/12 to yell about the colored guy and other shit: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and 75 other House Republicans have introduced a resolution “expressing gratitude and appreciation to the individuals and families who participated in [...]