Become a Member of Firedoglake GOAL: 1,000 New Members Support our one-stop shop for in-depth news coverage and hard-hitting activism.   As many of you might recall, and most probably have no idea, I will have been at this blogging thing for nine years this September which, in internet years, is …. nine years. When [...]

This was taken this afternoon just before the L&T Casey and I left for late lunch and going to see Thor (How was it? thwell). Realizing we were leaving the dogs took up their normal spots for afternoon naps.

In the wake of her own daughters shovel-ready face reconstruction, Sarah Palin makes a plastic surgery joke: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Wednesday accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of telling a “tight-faced lie” in saying she had nothing to do with healthcare reform waivers granted to companies in her district. During [...]

  This is good news for Ross Douthat. Instead, the report says, the abuse occurred because priests who were poorly prepared and monitored, and were under stress, landed in the midst of the social and sexual turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Known incidents of sexual abuse of minors by priests rose sharply during those [...]

  McMegan mourns the loss of the Gilded Age when “the upper middle class” could blithely plunk down $3k on a hotel room and didn’t have to mix with the common riff-raff in the 1st class cabin: A lot of ink has been spilled on the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn for allegedly attempting to rape [...]

Well now you see what you wanna be Just have your party on TV . -Blondie Rapture Statement from The Donald: “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated [...]

Blogger goes down and people act appropriately: …and, as might be expected, some, well,  not so much:   And now the internet has an enormous void that will never be filled, to say nothing of the angst that will be felt by future generations of cyberhistorians who will be denied the rich treasure trove of [...]

Matt Yglesias was assaulted by two young ruffians last night: So . . . I was walking back from the home of Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman and instead of doing the normal thing and taking Q Street west to 5th and then walking south, I wanted to take a shortcut by walking south on [...]

Word on the street (by which I mean, an email I received) is that innumerate elf McMegan appeared on Your Money with Matt Taibbi, where she took up the cause of poor downtrodden Goldman Sachs. As you can imagine, hilarity ensued. Will post the video when I find the damn thing. In the meantime, you [...]

Over at Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams explains it all to you: Why the right hates Common Limbaugh and Palin’s rage over the hip-hop artist’s performance proves just how little they understand poetry ….The man at the center of all those middle-aged white people’s anger this week was Chicago’s own Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., aka the [...]