This was classic.  Last night, The Daily Show lampooned this past weekend's Tea Party Convention, and it did so brilliantly.  Watch the first segment, if you don't believe me.

This is especially cool, because the convention so richly deserved to be lampooned, whether because of Tom Tancredo's xenophobic rant, or Sarah Palin's mindless keynote in ( Read more... )

Finally.  In just a few hours, a tiny percentage of Iowa's voters (the most partisan and ideologically driven, of course) will, on behalf of us all, take the first (disproportionately large) steps toward electing our next president.  Ah, Democracy.  I hadn't planned to post about this today, but it was all over NPR and CNN this morning, and when I ( Read more... )