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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To President Obama!

By Unstable Isotope October 9, 200960 Comments

Just announced: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for…

Late Night Video — Autotuning Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

By cassandra_m October 8, 2009

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.

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Health Care

By Unstable Isotope October 8, 20091 Comment

Keith Olbermann did an hour-long Special Comment last night on health care reform. It's quite the blockbuster. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the…

Radioactive Rabbit Tirds

By Donviti October 8, 20091 Comment

In late September, a helicopter hovered 50 feet above the Hanford nuclear reservation, methodically hunting almost 16 square miles for radioactive poop that critters with a taste for salt spread.…

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

By Unstable Isotope October 8, 200911 Comments

Ah, Joe Lieberman - the right's favorite Independent Democrat. You know, the Joe Lieberman who went around campaigning for McCain/Palin saying that Obama did not have the proper experience for…

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope October 8, 20094 Comments

Yadda, yadda, yadda. Last week we brought you the story of National Review writer John Derbyshire, who has written a whole chapter in his new book about how women should…

QOTD

By Donviti October 8, 200912 Comments

One of the things I did while I was out of work for 6 months was cut off my cable. I had a newborn son I was caring for and…

Opt-Out Public Option

By pandora October 8, 200945 Comments

When I first heard of the plan to allow states (Red States) to opt-out of the Public Option my initial response was let them. Kinda the same reaction I had…

LMAO

By Unstable Isotope October 8, 20092 Comments

Bwahahahahaha! *breathe* bwahahahahahaha! Conservative bloggers are so silly. They got punked by Bill Ayers (as proved by our very own troll, RICO, in yesterday's Open Thread). Here’s what happened: A…

The O’Donnell Challenge

By Delaware Dem October 7, 200930 Comments

I do not speak of Christine O'Donnell's challenge to Mike Castle in the Republican Senate Primary, which by the way, she is not giving up on. I speak of the…

Late Night Video — Call GOP Senator David Vitter with Your Prostitution Questions!

By cassandra_m October 7, 20093 Comments

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

By cassandra_m October 7, 2009

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

By cassandra_m October 7, 20094 Comments

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.