Tom Carper Tele-Town Hall Tonite

Senator Carper is apparently holding a telephone Town Hall tonite -- there was a message waiting for me on my phone last night providing a heads up that they would call. And we had a tip from one of our contributors that he had gotten the same call.

The New Wingnut Lie — Death Books for Vets

Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey -- one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) -- writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death. This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:

Absence of Journalism

One of our frequent targets of derision is The News Journal -- from their inexplicable and often wrong keeper of the Delaware Way Mr. Ron Williams, to some of their very shallow reporting of local politics -- this is a paper that doesn't seem to know from the "paper of record"

Bill Maher Covers the Health Insurance Debate

Smart, funny and some of the language is NSFW. Dana Gould really hits the heart of what passes for the debate on this right now -- lots of yelling a spittle on whatever the wingnut fear and resentments are and then there are the people just trying to take care of themselves.

Late Night Video — Quentin Tarantino Edition

The thing to know about QT movies is that the language is brutal and definitely in the NSFW or probably little kids category. That said, this is a video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz that is quite good -- showing how his characters use language to best and dominate each other:

Support the Billionaires

Make sure you watch this all the way through the credits -- nicely done! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca, who also notes that one of the organizing tenets of the C…