On a programing note, Barabara Ehrenreich, author of the indispensable examination of the invisible American underclass,  Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America, will be visiting the FDL Mothership Book Salon tomorrow at 5PM EST to chat about her new book Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Ehrenreich [...]

Oh english, you lingua franca of international business, science, technology, aviation. and new and interesting sexual practices! Is there any neologism we can’t create to fulfill our need to express the inexpressible? While Teabagger has taken the early lead for Most Awesomest Word of the Year, we have a dark horse entrant ReFounder As in, [...]

Who could have predicted that the Teabaggers would start going Lord of the Flies on each other: After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become so rife with internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money that some supporters fear it will [...]

Senator Tom Coburn, the Scourge of Middle School Bathroom Lesbians, does not much like this health care bill that Democrats are FORCING DOWN AMERICA’S THROAT LIKE AN GINORMOUS RUBBERY STRAP-ON so he wants some of the guys who make copies and go on Jamba Juice runs to read the whole thing out loud. Possibly in [...]

Fenway was not released into the wild last week. There is peace in the household.

Michelle Malkin  is personally affronted that Newsweek dressed up a Sarah Palin doll in a slutty Catholic schoolgirl costume because that is very embarrassing thing for the real Sarah Palin…. and Michelle Malkin should know. As the below video demonstrates, it is entirely possible that the Sarah Palin plastic articulated action-figure is capable of jumping [...]

First off, thanks for all of the suggestions from last week, I’m still going through them, and hope to add the best of the best soon. So let’s get on with tonight’s randomest of the already gots-est. Or something. Town Called Malice – The Jam Get The Funk Out Of My Face – The Brothers [...]

Sweet Jeebus I wonder if these people realize that the book isn’t a coloring book. Courtesy of Wonkette

It is entirely likely (should Sarah Palin decide to form  her own political party since the Republican establishment is not exactly seeing birds suddenly appear every time she is near) that Sarah will probably form her own political party. Since the Connecticut for Lieberman Party name is already taken and American Teabaggers sounds like a [...]

Laptop died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. Sooooo…I’m in the market for a replacement but, since I really only use it for blogging, I’m thinking about getting a netbook because of the cost. My preference would be to get a Mac but since they don’t really make a netbook, I’ll have to grudgingly [...]