Sister Rachel Maddow explains it all to you Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I’m kind of outsourcing this because I was tied up all day and there was a lot to take in, what with Republicans killing each other, the recriminations, the loathing, the existential despair. Good times. [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, the L&T Casey (and for you new people, the L&T Casey is my daughter whose life has been chronicled infrequently here and thereabouts since she was twelve) is headed off to grad school in New York City next Tuesday. She will initially be accompanied by her mother, the leggy and bootylicious [...]

While President No-Bama has been blithely going about his business mau-mauing the Supreme Court while at the same time giving speeches that are either viciously partisan and totally unfair in an election year (according to easily freaked out bed-wetting rightwingers) or just more blahbittyblahblahblah declarations of undying love to the corporate oligarchy of which he [...]

Just a note that I will be hosting an FDL Book Salon with Tracie McMillan on Sunday, May 6, where we will be discussing her book The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie [...]

In honor of the Late Great Jon Swift, Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar is once again picking up where Jon left off and asking bloggers to submit a link to what they believe was their best post of the year. Since I don’t read me because I find myself to be profane and unfair and juvenile [...]

If you thought that this years Super Bowl was going to be The Most Important Football Game Ever Played – Until They Play It Again A Year Later, well, you’re just dumb. Assuming you are reading this Sunday morning, you may well be aware that Tim “Tebow”  Tebow who is the Greatest Quarterback To Ever [...]

I am not Locked up in jail Fighting with the rebels in Tripoli Hanging out with a bereft Tim Tebow and telling him “There..there, Jesus still loves even if the Broncos don’t“ Gonna be around much for the next ten days because I am going to be pulling ten to twelve hour days at work [...]

No. I haven’t forgotten you. I just haven’t gotten up to speed yet since vacation and, quite frankly, nothing has caught my eye/piqued my interest/tickled my fancy/given me a blogging boner so, meh, blogging: who needs it? However (however) I am currently reading Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That [...]