He's willing to filibuster any attempt to give the telecomms retroactive immunity for their crimes against us. From Dodd's YouTube statement:

I don't believe it's right for telephone companies to be turning over the private telephone records of American citizens to the Bush Administration without prior judicial approval. This is a basic, ( Read more... )

Thanks to zarq for pointing this out to me - Ann Coulter's site was hacked recently, and some clever person put a letter to her readers up. ( Large screengrab behind the cut )

... yet another Republican congresscritter iz not gai, just festive.

It's not the gayness that suprises me, really, or the closeted Republican-ness, or even the hypocrisy in being a virulently anti-gay gay politician. What baffles me is...

Why is it always public bathrooms?

Background here. I can't believe it took us three weeks to hear about ( Read more... )

Funniest shit I've seen in awhile.

I suppose Oilant Green would have been too obvious.

How is/was everyone's Fourth?

As reported on Buzzflash and the Daily Show.

McCain's MySpace page is "hacked"... or, really, the person he was stealing bandwidth from decided to replace an image on his own server. The result? An apparent McCain about-face on gay marriage:

Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage… ( Read more... )

Thanks to girlfromsouth for emailing me about this bit of stupidity.
A theatre in Florida has had to change the title of a charity production of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee, after a woman complained that it was offensive.

The new name? They've decided on 'The Hoohaa Monologues'.


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... some links for the rest of us.

Via twistedchick: Protesters give Congress a spine. Hee! You can also watch speeches from the protest live on C-Span... oops, they've cut away to Hillary's town meeting in Iowa.

Check out the Huffington Post and Firedoglake's coverage of the Scooter Libby trial. Those two blogs wrangled press credentials for the media ( Read more... )

Best laugh of the day, courtesy of txvoodoo:

http://www.lovegodsway.org/GayBands

That's a joke site, right? Has to be - Elton John is listed twice, lastly as "really gay". Also, Cyndi "She Bop" Lauper is listed as a "safe" artist, and that's just silly ( Read more... )

Via BoingBoing, Wonkette has posted scans of a hilarious new NRA propagantastic graphic novel.

I think this is my favorite scan:


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I guess since Jon was off, somebody had to pick up the slack.

C&L: "Evidently, somebody at the White House needs a little help with 'The Google'." Hilariously catalogues the dozens of times Bush actually said "stay the course."

Also funny cuz it's true, Jesus General compares and contrasts President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and Bush ( Read more... )