Wednesday, December 29, 2010
I’m traveling again for a few weeks, and Internet service is a bit spotty, so I’ll post when I can. Feel free to send me good stories to post — leave them in the comments, so others can see them!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Are Republicans shaking their heads and wondering what happened? Did their midterm election victories make them get too cocky? © Tom Toles UPDATE: A Republican introduces a bill to eliminate lame duck sessions.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
© Mike Luckovich © Clay Jones
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
“This morning President Obama signed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ into law. He would have signed it last night, but supporters of the bill didn’t want to miss last night’s episode of ‘Glee.’” – Conan O’Brien “President Obama signed into law the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ What does it say about […]
Monday, December 27, 2010
Alternet has an interesting article written by an American living in Germany, and attempting to explain why Glenn Beck is popular, what the Tea Party is all about, and how we have destroyed the social safety net.
Monday, December 27, 2010
© Walt Handelsman As someone noted, we now trust gays to defend our country, to kill and be killed, but we don’t trust them to be married. But it will happen.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
“A new study found that there are only 786 mountain gorillas left in the world, and that number could go down even further after the premier of the new show, ‘Sarah Palin’s Congo.’” – Jimmy Fallon “Sarah Palin, part-time Governor of Alaska, is angry because Michele Obama is encouraging kids to eat healthy. Sarah Palin […]
Saturday, December 25, 2010
© Jim Morin Who says comedy can’t change the world? In his last show of the year, Jon Stewart dedicated the entire show to shaming the Republicans for unanimously filibustering a bill that would fund health care for the 9/11 first responders whose health was affected by their heroic efforts. Suddenly, the bill was back […]
Saturday, December 25, 2010
“Congress repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’. The Pentagon can now start production on ‘Iraq the Musical.’” – David Letterman “The Senate voted to allow gay soldiers to serve in the military. This is good news for gay soldiers, but bad news for straight soldiers who were going to say they were gay to get out […]
Friday, December 24, 2010
Next time you need to win an argument with a supply-sider, AlterNet has a rather well done debunking of the nine biggest conservative lies about taxes and public spending. Here are the lies: 1. Cutting Taxes Leads to More Money for the Government 2. Conservatives’ Favorite Economist Proves the Point 3. Taxes on the Rich […]
Friday, December 24, 2010
© Tom Toles Aren’t you glad Santa is not run by a corporation? Oh wait!
Friday, December 24, 2010
“Congress has voted to extend the Bush tax cuts. Is it me, or is George W. Bush getting more done now than when he was in office?” – Jay Leno “Michelle Obama wore a vintage thrift-store dress from the 1950s for the Christmas in Washington concert. She’s not the only one going vintage. In fact, […]
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Will wonders never cease? It has been a crazy week, what with Obama somehow talking the Republicans into going along with repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, ratifying the new START treaty, and dropping their filibuster to 9/11 first responder health benefits at the end of the lame duck session. But now arch-conservative founder of the […]
Thursday, December 23, 2010
In his first TV interview since being released from jail, Julian Assange makes several very strong points: First, Assange makes the point that WikiLeaks is a legitimate part of the media, and if people think they can avoid government attack by not defending WikiLeaks they don’t understand history: They believe that if they sell us […]
