Also, when we come back … some people were shot and died and we have also have video of Dancing With The Stars hostess Brooke Burke Charvet sporting a teeny bikini. But first this message …

Real ‘Muricans in Montana and their funny Kenyan Usurper Bathroom Humor: Political conventions often feature unique offerings. But the gun/shovel/duct tape raffle and the bullet-“pocked” outhouse at the Montana GOP convention might have pushed the envelope. [...] There was less laughter – although plenty of picture-taking – of an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” parked [...]

Hey, remember when Bill Kristol’s idiot son-in-law wrote: What would happen, though, if a website covered the left in the same way that the left covers the right? What picture of the world would one have in mind if the morning paper read like the New York Times—but with the subjects of the stories and [...]

West Virginia anti-coal activist Maria Gunnoe appeared before a congressional committee last week to discuss the damage that coal mining does to the environment, only to have wingnut Congressman Doug Lamborn ask that she be detained because part of her testimony threatened to give him a boner: When award-winning West Virginia anti-coal activist Maria Gunnoe [...]

Arizona’s birther-curious Secretary of State Ken Bennett has been getting jerked around like a Daily Caller “reporter” by the strangely un-American named Jill T. Nagamine, who is Hawaii’s Deputy Secretary of State, in his quest to discover if President Barack Obama was really born in America or if he is actually the muslim pharaoh baby killer [...]

Shorter Frank Luntz: Conservatives are like this… Shorter Jonah Goldberg: ..and liberals are all like this. It took the combined brainpower of Luntz and Jonah to (feebly attempt to) make up for the WaPo’s allowing Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein to be mean to Republicans. Luntz’s column reads like a mother explaining that her son [...]

Yesterday we noted that Gawker has recently acquired a mole in the Fox News room and there was much joy expressed throughout the land. This morning a “spokesperson” for Fox said that they had tracked down said mole: “We found the person and we’re exploring legal options at this time.” Crisis averted! Back to slut shaming [...]

This is one of those ” What Digby said” posts. Go read. Keep in mind that all of these roadblocks designed to keep women from choosing a perfectly legal medical procedure aren’t about shaming them, it’s about giving them the information they need because a woman who is obviously too stupid to realize that her [...]

You may be aware of the term “puke funnel” which is used to describe either a well-orchestrated right-wing campaign to smear and discredit people or, depending upon the topic, to create a new and improved reality more amenable to the instigators’ needs. A classic example is how Ahmad Chalabi plied Judith Miller with access and [...]

Yes, I know, It’s hard to believe: Last night in my dozen observations on the debate I wrote: 5. [Romney] also made some sort of reference to coming from the “streets of America.” Romney is a fine man, but if there’s anyone less “street” than Mitt Romney I don’t know who it could be. If [...]