YouTube vid beneath the cut: ( There's nothing magic about Mike Huckabee's underwear. )

[YouTube] ( Brad has a wide stance. )

The Senate has passed a resolution Jim Webb calls "Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream" [YouTube link] because although it doesn't, it could be read as authorizing military action against Iran. I think he really meant "Dick Cheney's fondest wet dream," but didn't say it because he'd get in trouble. Also because it would give us all horrifying mental ( Read more... )

I've got good news, I've got bad news...and I've got batshit craziness.

The good: Supreme Court to EPA: "Yes, you do have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. You might wanna do that, or come up with better reasons not to. (Dumbasses.)"

The court ruled 5 to 4 that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by ( Read more... )

Via FDL: Bill Maher puts one of the most righteous smackdowns on the Bush Adminstration I've seen yet over Valerie Plame. Watch it.

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He also defines the scandal in the clearest of terms, for those who are confused or forgetful.

Valerie Plame was the kind of ( Read more... )

Here's the full Edwards press conference from yesterday. See for yourself why they're made of awesome. (If the embeds don't show up when viewing the comm, click on the link for this entry to view.)

1st half:

2nd half:

If you go searching on the topic, be warned, some of the people on YouTube posting about the Edwardses are truly vile excuses ( Read more... )

from VoteVets.org urging Bush to Stop The Escalation.

Powerful and to the point.

Recently I linked the story about using the common cold virus against cancer. Last week I saw another awesome-sounding potential breakthrough, this one using a drug that already exists: A drug called DCA used to treat rare metabolic disorders that kills almost all cancers by reactivating cancerous cells' mitochondria, which then cause cell death ( Read more... )

It's Martin Luther King Day, and other people doubtless have more eloquent things to say about it than I could come up with. But when it comes to eloquence, no one tops the man himself. So here, via FireDogLake, is Martin Luther King (audio only) speaking about the war. Vietnam, then. It's hard to imagine he wouldn't have similar things to say ( Read more... )

Barney's Holiday Extravaganza as interpreted by the Daily Show.

What's it like at night when the demons visit you?

This is my new favorite Christmas movie.

I hope everyone had, is having, or will have, a good whatever you celebrate:
Hanukkah/Ramadan/Solstice/HumanLight/Christmas/Kwanzaa ( Read more... )