Sorry I’m late. Minor drama at home tonight but all is well. New music added this week: new BRMC, Gorillaz (with guests: Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, and Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals), and Broken Bells which promises to be interesting but I haven’t had  a chance to actually listen to [...]

Now that we know that all congressmen and senators spend all of their spare time in showers and saunas engaging in cockfights (and not the chicken kind), congressional aides are putting in tons of overtime in CYA&penis mode making sure their bosses don’t get linked to a creepy legislative mansex Fight Club. Senator John Thune, [...]

Shorter Michael Scherer: I has a sad because Marc Thiessen has been less than forthcoming about  torture government-sanctioned not-niceness to brown people. I must say, sociopaths with low standards really disappoint me. Added: You can see the entire Stewart/Thiessen interview here.

Not to get out of the serious work I do here (well, it’s serious to me) but, here, read  what Athenae said. Jesus H. Gentle Cycle Christ, I hate this. Like, how are we to suppose this works, that you used to be a fair and decent person but then you had a kid and [...]

Apparently we are all Jane Hamsher now. If you want to concern troll me about her [Connie Saltonsall] not being able to win the general, I don’t care. Health care is the signature Democratic legislation for decades, and it is in trouble because of this jackass [Stupak] running against a settled part of the party [...]

Peter Beinart in 3 Acts… Act One :We totally need to go into Iraq and kick some fucking ass. Act Two :You know that time l got all, “America, fuck yeah!” Well… my bad. Act Three : OMIGAWD! If we leave Iraq real soon things are going to go really badly! Who could have predicted? [...]

Shorter Ross Douthat: Religion: Ur doin it wrong, America

Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse commits suicide: Mark Linkous, a singer and songwriter whose music, released under the name Sparklehorse, was renowned in indie-rock and alt-country circles for its haunted, allusive themes and fragile beauty, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 47. About Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain: [...]

Along with being SNBPB night, it also Mrs TBogg’s birthday, so I dug up a photo from the night she brought her new baby, Wembley, home. You know who else held their paw up like that? Hitler’s puppy. Also, to make up for the dreadful Malkin video that I put up yesterday and most likely [...]

Shorter State Employee Glenn Reynolds: American government was once like the great American beer Schlitz but now it’s just a beer for the coloreds and the shiftless so we should order up something new, preferably something paler with a white fluffy head. Also,