Archive for 2010
Tornoe’s Toon: Carper Hearts Big Oil
Memo to Tom Carper: Asking tough questions of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico does not suddenly make you a tree-hugging hippie on the subject. As a ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wasn’t it your responsibility to ask these questions […]
Good Night For Democrats, Bad Night For The Establishment
Recap of last night’s primaries and special election results.
Liveblogging the primaries, 5/18
This is a liveblog to track the results from today’s primary results in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oregon, and the special elections in Hawaii and PA-12. My bets: Pennsylvania – Sestak, Onorato, Critz, Pike (ugh) Kentucky – Paul, Conway Oregon – Kitzhaber, Dudley Arkansas – Lincoln (with runoff needed, I hope), Boozman (ditto) Hawaii – […]
Beau Biden Released From Hospital
Beau Biden was released from the hospital today, according to press reports. The Delaware Department of Justice released this statement: Attorney General Beau Biden returned home this afternoon from Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, Department of Justice spokesman Jason Miller said. Biden’s doctor, Dr. Robert Rosenwasser of Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, made the following statement upon […]
Oilpocalypse: Who Should Pay?
I started a small Twitter war last night when I suggested that perhaps we should tax gasoline to pay for the cleanup of the oil volcano in the Gulf. BP is statutorily limited to $75M in damages for a spill. I suspect that they will end up paying more than that voluntarily, but they will, […]
Teacher Uses Assassination To Explain Geometry
Crazy stuff. (via TPM) The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson. […] A student in the class described the lesson: “He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to […]
Another “Family Values” Republican Fails To Practice What He Preaches
Typical. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a champion of abstinence education and traditional family values, will resign effective Friday after an affair with a female staffer in his district office, he announced today. He said in a statement that he “sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time […]
The Oceans Will Run Out Of Fish In 40 Years
The greed of the developed world will be the tombstone of the planet. From AFP: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where […]
Conservatives Freak Out Over Unimportant Competition
An Arab-American Muslim woman won the Miss USA title and wingnuts went crazy.
Bye Bye Blumenthal?
Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal got caught in a big lie. He claims to have served in Vietnam, but he got 5 deferments. There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and […]
Oilpocalypse Update
Oilpocalypse updates: both good news and bad news. Giant plumes of oil have been observed under the water. However, the tube insertion appears to have been successful. Extra special bonus – Palin speaks!
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