Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Jon Stewart totally skewers CNN for doing a fact check on Saturday Night Live’s recent Obama skit, but letting guests get away with blatant lies:
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
“This is an historic night. Tonight, for the first time in American history, we are preparing to attack the moon.” – Jimmy Kimmel “NASA is going to launch a rocket to the moon on Friday. They’re going to shoot a rocket to the moon. Just going to — kaboom, kaboom! The government says don’t worry, […]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
© Tom Tomorrow Everyone has their own fantasies.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Here is a video making the rounds of the innertubes called “Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned”: Yes, of course it is being sarcastic — the clear intent is to make fun of arguments against gay rights. But what’s really ironic are the comments — there are over 12 thousand of them already on YouTube — […]
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Obama turned down the Nobel Peace Prize? He could simply say that he doesn’t deserve it … yet, and that the Nobel committee should wait until he really earns it. That would drive the right-wing crazy. © Scott Stantis © Nick Anderson UPDATE: The Nobel committee defends their decision to […]
Why is it the best articles about American politics come from the foreign press? Is it because you need a little distance in order to get a good perspective, or is it that the US press just really sucks? Anyway, there is a very good article written by a British journalist about Glenn Beck. The […]
Here is an interesting graph, showing the year-over-year growth of the Gross Domestic Product over the last two decades for the G7 countries, the seven major western economies. You can click on it to see a larger image: There are several interesting things we can see from this graph: The current economic mess started early […]
Bill Moyers explains it in terms even a teabagger could understand:
© Jim Morin UPDATE: One point that I don’t see anyone making is that they said that they were giving him the award primarily for his work to control nuclear proliferation. That work started long before he became president. Why does everyone keep assuming that they were only giving him the award for what he […]
“So what NASA is doing, they’re crashing a rocket, which will have the energy of two tons of TNT It’s part of NASA’s new strategy, ‘What would Wile E. Coyote do?’” – Jimmy Fallon “Now, listen to this. I’m no rocket scientist so far be it from me to tell these people who are rocket […]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
I’ve been enjoying watching Alan Grayson take the Party of No to task, and wondered if other Dems would catch on. It looks like they might be. In response to Republicans attacking Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the DNC sent out the following email: The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with […]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
“You know, President Obama went to Denmark to try and get the Olympics for Chicago. They turned him down. He was so upset that they wouldn’t give us the Olympics that he had to invite himself to the White House for a beer.” – David Letterman “Well, congratulations to President Obama and first lady Michelle. […]
