“Good to see everybody. You know, it is good to be back. We were off for Christmas, and apparently so was the Department of Homeland Security.” – Jay Leno “I guess you heard about that kid that tried to blow up the plane on Christmas Day with a bomb he had hidden in his underwear. […]
Probably everyone has heard that Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital in Hawaii complaining of chest pains, and upon his release took that opportunity to slam health care reform, saying: I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with the American health care system. I got no special treatment other than what anybody else that […]
© Ruben Bolling This reminded me of a local story from about a year ago, when several new residents of a rural community complained because the roosters crowing were waking them up in the morning. They wanted the farm to be forced to get rid of its noisy animals. Of course, the farm with the […]
© Matt Bors Many claim that WWII was the thing that ended the Great Depression, but I don’t think the current wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror, Yemen, …) are making things better.
For those of you with very short attention spans, Jon Stewart lets you know what you missed in 2009:
The first decade of the new millennium was the first time since we started keeping records when we failed to create any new jobs. Not only that, but it was the first decade when the average net worth of American families declined. From the Washington Post: There has been zero net job creation since December […]
David Sirota has put together a great list of the top 10 quotations of the decade. Interestingly, most of them are from 2009. Rather than list some of them here, here is a little quiz. Test your knowledge! “They frankly own the place.” — which Senator let slip the real relationship between banks and Congress? […]
© David Horsey 2009 was definitely the year of crazy.
Fox News heavily promoted the “Tea Party Express”, a bus tour around the country of tea party events. But now, it turns out that over two-thirds of the money that was donated by Tea Partiers to this event was channeled back to Republican political operatives. The Tea Party Express was organized by the political action […]
I already posted about this, but Rachel Maddow says it so much better than I ever could: Full transcript here.
Talking Points Memo has announced the winners of their Third Annual Golden Duke Awards! These are the awards — named after Duke Cunningham — for corruption, public stupidity, hypocrisy, and just plain malevolent governance. And the winners are: For Meritorious Achievement in The Crazy — Orly Taitz For Best Public-Policy Based Fib — Sarah Palin […]
Daryl Cagle has captured 2009 in political cartoons. Here is one of them: If you like this one, go view the rest of them.
From Emanuel Derman’s Blog: Trading Places I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) switched roles. If a bank failed at 9 a.m. one morning and shut its doors, the TSA would announce that all banks henceforth begin their business day at 10 a.m. And, if a terrorist managed […]
Eugene Robinson and Juan Cole have wickedly good rebuttals to Cheney’s nonsensical attack on Obama from Tuesday, showing how Cheney is acting like a raving lunatic. Go read them. But one thing that Cole mentions in passing really caught my eye, and deserves further attention. Cole points out that according to anti-terrorism experts, Al Qaida […]
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