Hey kids, remember this? President Obama had a run-in with a heckler on Thursday, when a founder of the anti-war group Code Pink interrupted his speech on drone policy and other national security issues. Toward the end of Obama’s address, a woman identified in the White House pool report as Medea Benjamin, the co-founder [...]

Well, let’s get this out of the way: Life On Mars? – David Bowie Hotwax – Beck Start Again – Teenage Fanclub Kitty Litter – Placebo What’s She Done To Your Mind – Rain Parade Losing Streak – Eels Pictures of Me – Elliott Smith Stupefaction – Graham Parker & The Rumour Jesus & Tequila [...]

I was about to do a Shorter Barack Obama Speech, but SteveM from No More Mr. Nice Blog nailed it in under 140 characters: Short of announcing his resignation and declaring a winner-take-all New President Steel Cage Deathmatch between Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Dr. Saint Jill Stein, nothing Obama said or explained or will do [...]

I’m so old that I can remember a time when some of the same delicate internet woodland creatures who have suddenly discovered a soul mate in Rand Paul (R-Stopped Clock) and are now singing his praises over a singular policy  agreement (while adding a firm caveat that they find him to be a loathsome hell [...]

I’m-a gonna tell you how it’s gonna be – Charles Hardin Holley So anyway… About a week ago I informed my lovely hostess, Jane Hamsher, that I was going to pull the plug on this Popsicle stand (AKA “pulling a billmon” although I have never come close to approaching his genius) because my real life [...]

Senator-elect and Green Party I-Wish-You-Were-My-Girlfriend poster girl Elizabeth Warren hasn’t even been seated in the Senate yet and she is already shitting all over progressive hopes and dreams by not demanding that she be given the skull of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein for her desktop pencil holder: Elizabeth Warren is resigning the tenured post [...]

Hey kids! Who is up for some election day hijinks! Yeah? Really? You are? Okay, let’s do this thing! It seems that the Teabaggers got  a little more organized this year, outside of recruiting pro-rapey candidates, and they up and  formed themselves a Concerned White Citizens Council-y thing charged with sittin’ around on their hoverounds [...]

Multiple Pulitzer Prize finalist and banjo-playing fool Joe Newby reports that the blahs are threatening to get all up in America’s grill if President Afrika “Barry” Obambatta is not not given another four years to turn America into a Muslim Boogaloo Wonderland of Miscegenation & Hip Hop Barbeques. How do we know this is true? [...]

I have been otherwise occupied, but here are some things that are supposedly things: Shorter Newt Gingrich: My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy Senator who knows this kid who’s going with the girl major network journalist who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night some secret Benghazi emails. [...]

Nobody could have predicted that Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate would be accused of being running dog wannabe-lackeys of the corporate oligarchy: Jill Stein is the Green Party candidate for President of the United Capitalist Imperialist States in 2012, and she certainly appears to be the much lesser evil. [...]