Since I got nothing else, might as well do a random ten thingy: Boy Lilikoi – jónsi Satisfy My Soul – Bob Marley El Carretero – Buena Vista Social Club Hunter – Portishead That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – The Smiths (if you listen to the Smiths, you can bag Zoe Deschanel. I learned that [...]

Atlantic magazine writer and Israeli Chamber of Commerce spokesmodel Jeffrey Goldberg has a big honking story up at The Atlantic about the upcoming Israeli End Times Bombaroo festival coming soon to a planet in your neighborhood and, as excerpted by Wonkette because I’m too lazy to read it right now, we can expect: …a good [...]

Stone Cold Linda McMahon won the Republican Senate primary in Connecticut yesterday and The Hill reports that it is going to be an old fashioned barn-burner the likes of which Connecticutians (Connecticutidiots?) have never seen. McMahon has been slowly gaining on Blumenthal in public polling since June. The latest Qunnipiac numbers have Blumenthal up just [...]

As those of you with the really good Hallmark calendars are probably aware, today is St. Satchmo Day;  a day when, in memory of the late great Satchmo who may very well have been the sweetest dog to ever wander the earth or nap on a couch, we take a moment out of our day [...]

Deep Thoughts from RightWing News’ John Hawkins Compared to two wetsuits, a dildo, a strong rope and a stout overhead beam, it is…

Apparently we are all supposed to be outraged/exercised/sorrowful/gleeful about something that Robert Gibbs said but, unless it was something along the lines of “The President has asked Bill Kristol to head up his foreign policy team”, I just can’t get too excited about a guy venting about feeling unappreciated. On the other hand, the “professional [...]

In light of Joe Lieberman’s announcement that he may run again and former Senator Ted Steven’s much more splashy announcement that he probably won’t, we present this blast from the past. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party It is worth remembering that Stevens was in [...]

Greg Gutfeld who hosts Red Eye, which is that show that Fox runs at 3AM for people who find the Hanger Cascader infomercials complex and hard to follow, has announced that he is going to open a ISLAMIC GAY BAR (har har…funnee!) next to the Ground Zero Muslimtorium  and this is going to be so [...]

Since I am at MY REAL JOB right now I can’t wade into Michael Fleischer’s Why I’m Not Hiring in the WSJ, until this evening, but  I should note that Fleischer, who is brother of Ari (yeah, that guy) has an interesting history of involvement as a member of Paul Bremer’s Iraq CPA which involved [...]

Shorter Ross Douthat: I will concede the inevitability of gay marriage if we can all agree that a bland sterile heterosexual marriage like mine is, in the final tally, say, 3% more awesomer. Deal? Note: For those who don’t read Ross Douthat, and most Americans wisely don’t, each Douthat column follows the same script: a [...]