Sen. Tom Carper Talks About State-Run Public Options
This video from the Nightly Business Report is not embeddable, but click here and the player should come up for you. There is a transcript, too.
Late Night Video — Beck is pwned
You go Stephen Colbert in another piece of satire gold:
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — DIY Bacon Vodka
Bacon-flavored vodka seems to be all the rage right now, with a couple of expensive and hard-to-find versions out on the market. But making your own seems like a perfect fall weekend project. Plus you can make enough to give as hostess gifts or other gifts for the upcoming holidays. This recipe is courtesy of the blog Brownie Points:
Alan Grayson Has a New Message for Ds and Rs
Damn it, this guy is all right with me. Besides, there's even a Friday bacon-blogging connection!
Calling ‘Em Out
Time Magazine reports that the White House is getting more aggressive in taking on the disinformation that gets into the press:
Late Night Video — Autotuning Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking
There is something oddly fitting about this autotuned tribute to Dr. Sagan. You wonder what the point of it is, but here is an exuberant remix of the words of one man whose exuberant sense of wonder and delight in the world and the stars just charmed you right into sharing that wonder and delight.
Late Night Video — Call GOP Senator David Vitter with Your Prostitution Questions!
Senator David Vitter has been up in arms about the whole ACORN business -- where a scam prostitution crew tries to get a mortgage -- that it seems more than fair to get the Senator to talk about his expertise with prostitution:
CBO Score on Baucus Bill Completed
The CBO score (this is a pdf) was delivered on the Finance Committee bill this afternoon and the news is at first blush -- good. Good in that it will keep the process rolling to its next step which is a vote out of Committee so the work at merging the HELP and Finance bills can proceed. Key highlights:
More Like This Please! Shep Smith Dismisses the Talking Points
You have to see it really, but there is a transcript here. Shep Smith had on repub Representative John Barrasso from Wyoming for a discussion of the Public Option for health insurance reform, which definitely did not go as the Representative likely expected.
NCCO Takes a Step Towards Openness
From the article that DD linked to highlighting the Delaware Way this week, there was a small piece at the end noting a piece of good news:
Late Night Video — Everything is OK
Delightful bit of business monkey-wrenching some of the public space rules of speech, recording and interaction with "security" staff -- spoofing the Fear is Good mindset. This is about 8 minutes long, then get back to work so you can move on to your shopping experience.
Anger in America
The ever funny Lewis Black riffs on the current fad of pundits stringing together a bunch of unrelated incidents to say that we are now an Angry Nation:
Banned Books Week
This past week has been Banned Books Week, the week the ALA and American booklovers shine a light on the effort to censor or remove books from public libraries or…