Archive for December 12th, 2009

Weekend Open Thread

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Only two more weekends until Christmas! Have you got your Christmas shopping finished? I’m definitely not finished. I think ‘Bulo is not the only listaholic around here. I found this through Facebook: The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials Of All Time. Here’s my favorite: Ayn Rand’s A Selfish Christmas (1951) In this hour-long radio drama, […]

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The Teapocalypse

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The Teapocalypse

Documented by Jon Stewart — and when will the traditional media cover this new scandal from the teabaggers???? There are likely teabagging parties all over the US who are appalled at the plastic Jesus on a spring!

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Bulo Remembers 2009-Most Interesting Ideas of the Year

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For the ninth consecutive year, the New York Times Magazine has published its Year In Ideas section. If you have a brain, you’ll want to read it. It is, as the title suggests, thought-provoking. I even found one idea that, were I a state legislator, I’d turn into a bill as soon as possible (more […]

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Carper Fights For His Base

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Earlier this year Carper voted with the Republicans to block an amendment to allow Medicaid and Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It caused quite a stir because Carper railed against the unfairness of hurting the profits of drug companies. Carper is doing it again. Byron Dorgan has filed an amendment to allow drug reimportation from […]

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Wow. Just Wow.

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Looks like the always interesting Michael Steele did a photo shoot with the Republican party interns. Please don’t drink liquid while viewing the pictures.

Bottom line, Michael Steele has no idea ‘what up’ with the Asian guy.

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