Barack Obama is walking down the street when he looks in a neighbors garage and sees an old rusty push mower. Knocking on the door, he is surprised to see that it’s John Boehner’s house. “Hey John. I couldn’t help but notice that fine lawnmower in your garage. How much do you want for it?” [...]

Republicans wouldn’t mind humping Sarah Palin in the backseat of their Camaro, but they don’t really consider her marriage material. Sarah Palin might think she could get elected President in 2012, but few Americans agree. Only 28% of voters in the country think that Palin is capable of defeating Barack Obama while 60% think she [...]

While there was and is a certain value in releasing secret information from the government that a war is going poorly and the public is being lied to, I have to agree with Steven Benen about the latest wikileaks dump: I would, however, like to know more about the motivations of the leaker (or leakers). [...]

The first TV show I can ever remember watching when I was just a mere lad (this is how old people talk, we were once “lads” or “young striplings” … whatever the hell those are) was The Swamp Fox which was broadcast on Sunday nights Until I read Leslie Nielsen’s obituary this evening, I had [...]

Tonight, on Very Special Episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska An outbreak of gonorrhea across Alaska that began in 2009 is continuing this year, and health officials say they are trying new ways to curb it. Between 2008 and 2009, the number of gonorrhea cases in Alaska rose an alarming 69 percent, according to a new [...]

Just a reminder that I will be hosting Matt Taibbi at the FDL  Book Salon at 2PM (PST)  today (Saturday) discussing Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. This is my favorite selection from the book, where he discusses the bailouts: …And at the tail end of all this [...]

Photo of a basset in front of a fire on a cold winters night Below the fold, slightly less appealing photo of a basset in front of a fire on a cold winters night

If Mark Halperin wrote for TMZ this is exactly the post that he would write: Two Years Later: Sarah Palin Has Come A Long Way From The Slaughtered Turkey Video Look how far Sarah Palin’s come. It was only two year (sic) ago that the former Vice Presidential candidate — and then Alaskan Governor — [...]

Minnesota Republican Rep. Tom Hackbarth knows what he wants and he knows how to get it stalk it and kill it: A security guard at a St. Paul Planned Parenthood clinic called the cops last week after he spotted a Republican state lawmaker with a loaded gun in the parking lot. But the pol says [...]

…and the sound of the turkeys is pretty awful too. This is a holiday classic just like A Charlie Brown Christmas but with death and blood and a skinny white chocolate mocha from Starbucks.