Susan Boyle, from the latest episode of Britain's Got Talent.

Embedding has apparently been disabled for this clip, but you must -- MUST!!!! -- click this link and watch the video at YouTube. And watch the whole thing, too; don't skip over the intro and exit to watch only her performance in the middle.

Kate Harding at Shapely Prose says it best: ( Read more... )

I never watched the show West Wing, because I always worked on the night it aired. And by the time all the Good Buzz was going on about what a great show it was, well, it was too late to jump into it. (I really hate jumping into shows that have been going on for a couple years already ( Read more... )

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"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."

( Say it with me: )

"The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, ( Read more... )

John Scalzi has a great post about the sheer hysteria that McSame's choice of Carobou Barbie for Veep has generated amongst the Democratic faithful:

"I know it’s a lot to ask at the moment, but could you possibly please stop publicly losing your shit all over the goddamn place? Honestly, it’s embarrassing. ....

.... Good fucking gravy, how off ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin's acceptance speech brought in $10 million in campaign contributions.

For Barack Obama.

Palin and McCain are just more of the same.

There are not enough superlatives in my vocabulary to do justice to this man, or to his speech last night at Mile High Stadium here in Denver. (True Denverites refuse to acknowledge the "Invesco Field" nominal abomination....) If by some strange chance you haven't heard or seen it, WATCH IT. NOW.

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Something the Democrats have been sadly lacking in, giving the Repugs the national stage for far too long.

Hillary Clinton moves to suspend the roll call and declare Obama the official Democratic Presidential candidate by acclamation.

And THIS is the Hillary Clinton I wanted to vote for, before she let her campaign totally derail. THIS is the ( Read more... )

THIS JUST IN:
Rep. John Conyers announced Thursday he will hold Judiciary Committee hearings next week on the "imperial" Bush presidency..... Although he carefully did not use the word "impeachment," he did say that the committee "will look at 'credible allegations of serious misconduct' by Bush administration officials and 'what many would ( Read more... )