Fun Fact

Did you know that Libya's dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi travels with an all-female team of bodyguards?

Now you know.

Blago Semi-Walks

The jury hung on 23 counts and convicted on just one, the charge of fibbing to the Feds. Looks like the government is going to refile and try again. We get the whole circus over again!

I Know Who Breitbart is

Toby: I just figured out who you were. 
Kiefer: He's gonna say Satan. 
Toby: No, you're the guy that runs into the 7-11 to get Satan a pack of cigarettes.

West Wing, 20 Hours in L.A.

Andrew Breitbart is a cancer. He lies, with words and with video tape. His lies get people fired. He is a hateful, evil man.

Headline of the Day

Sword-Wielding Porn Actor Dies After Falling Off Cliff In Stand-Off

I could offer comment or a joke of my own, but really, I've got nothing to top this.

Lack of Personal Growth

Ben Nelson lack the ability to grow as a person.

Todays Moment of Zen

Jon Cleese, grounded due to the Iceland volcano ash cloud, took a $5,000 taxi ride from Oslo to Brussels.

How Much Damage Can One Senator Do?

Jim Bunning continues his rampage. Still blocking measures that everyone, both Dems and Republicans want to see passed. Now its a pay cut for doctors. The man blocks an unemployment extension in the middle of a recession. He flips off TV cameras. He's not standing for reelection, it doesn't matter how big of an ass he is. One maniac brings the whole US government to a halt. But the world is full of jerks and crazy-people. The trick is not to let them derail the system for all of us. A Senate where one ass Senator can do this kind of damage is not a working Senate. The Senate is broken and needs to be fixed.

What an Ass

Jim Bunning, pride of the US Senate.

There are ten things about this that piss me off.

Jerks

No matter what the disaster, we can always count on some jerks to say the worse thing possible. Conservative commenter's are very reliable like that.

Some people just don't know when to stop talking.

Congradulations!

You are, in fact, famous.

Famous as a d-bag and a fraud, but now a very well-know d-bag and fraud.

Well done sir.

Explaining Berlusconi

Anne Applebaum takes a crack.

What is it with this guy?

Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of bribery, tax evasion, corruption, and subversion of the press. His wife has left him on the grounds that he consorts with prostitutes and holds orgies at his villa in Sardinia. He makes embarrassing jokes (and then repeats them, as he did with the one about President Barack Obama's "suntan") and periodically disappears to undergo more plastic surgery. He is at war with the Italian legal establishment, with almost all the journalists who don't work for him, and with the Catholic Church.

Come Together

In these troubled times of partisanship and strife, at least we can all come together to agree on something:

Kanye West is a dick

Fight for Your Right

So here's the sad tale of a guy, who is literally fighting health care reform, has no health insurance.

Why is this guy fighting so hard to make the system better? I just don't understand sometimes.

Just an Affair

So the whole missing Governor affair turned out to be just that - an affair. Kinda boring, once you think about. I was hoping for secret plastic surgery or some kind of amnesia And lucky us we get to see the mother of all mid-life crisis's play out in news conference form. At least the man had the decency of not bringing his wife along for the soul-bearing. No more lectures on family values from anybody. Ever.

Argentina

So it turns out that the mysteriously missing Governor was not, in fact, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" but rather took a seven-day trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina that no one, not his staff, not his security detail, and not even his wife knew about. this is really kind of weird. Do you know anyone who just takes off for a foreign country for a week and not tell anyone? Do you know anyone who is the boss of something not making arrangements for when they leave? I mean the man is Governor of South Carolina. He didn't tell his staff? The Lt. Governor? Somebody?

I demand an investigation. Maybe a hearing.

Case of the Missing Governor

Have you ever just wanted to take off, leave it all behind, and not tell anybody where you're gong?

Well, the Governor of South Carolina just did.

That was a Line

Hey Tom Tancredo, you know that line you are not supposed to cross when atacking the first Latina nominated to the Supreme Court?

Look behind you.

Words Fail

Blago to appear on a reality show called I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

Evolution of Fear

Giraffes get longer necks. The giraffe with the longer neck can eat the really nice leaves on the top of the tree, becomes healthier and sexier and scores more. Thus we have more giraffes with longer necks. That's evolution. Evolution for right wing talk show hosts means hosts get more and more insane over time. The crazier they are, the more you can't stop watching. Madness is the comparative advantage of right wing talk.

The natural outcome of this evolutionary process is Glenn Beck. Case in point:



This is insane. And completely expected. Glenn Beck is the walking personification of fear winning out over reason:

Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited — on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously — the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" — Big Government, Big Business, Big Media — are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America — Palinville — have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just like him.

Glenn Beck: good for ratings, bad for the species.

No Kidding

Who could have possibly thought that the man appointed by Blago could later get tripped up in ethics questions?

Turns out, everyone but Roland Burris.