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David Letterman’s early years

Biggest beneficiary from the Jobs Bill: Not The Jobless

Star Trek: Christian Evangelical Edition

Thomas Ratliff edges out Don McLeroy on Texas Board of Education “Reality” Platform

Artur Davis tries to shore up his Democratic oppositional credentials in run for governor, pops in to Capitol Hill to vote against Health Care

Republicans to Jobless: Screw Ya!

Gordon Quinn: When we returned people made fun of me for singing the praise of Russian Toasters.

Conan O’brien’s twitter friend

New Details on elaborate Dubai Assassination

Ahmadinejad: “9/11 Was an Inside Job.”
… and America is the only thing stopping the return of this Shia Prophet

Scientology Defectors… You Know the rest.  Never sign a contract for a billion years.

The Hemline correlation to Economic fortunes

It’s Armenian Genocide Recognition Resolution Time Again

LA Graffiti Tagger Contest Gets Heated

Michael Moore asks for Rahm Emanuel’s job

Beetle Bailey sure is a bleak comic strip.

Bill Clinton defeats Big Cola.

John Patrick Bedell, the terrorist who shot two at the Pentagon, and his manifesto

Who will be the first Member of Congress to call for the Impeachment of Obama?

The Republican Celebrity Line up

Jeffersonville Middle School says no to drugs, is suspended

Wall Street Vet: Nothing has changed

Ron Paul fans deal with agreeing with Dennis Kucinich on something

Danish cartoon fallout
Classic Politically Incorrect National Lampoon comics

10 Ways to Identify a Witch

Slideshow of Obama feigning interest in mundane things

Yes.  This call will defeat Doc Hastings.  Yep.

The Republican Party has a low regard for its donor base.

Political Magazine Article round-up

Mother Jones March/April 2010
“Drinking While Brown” Adam Weinstein
“Married For a Minute?” — Nadya Labi
“Age of Treason” — Justine Sherrak

Washington Monthly March / April 2010
“Who Killed America’s Job Machine?”:  Why Creeping Consolidation is Killing Amercan Livelihoods:  Barry C Lynn, Phillip Longman

New Republic March 11, 2010
“Disaster Relief” How to Avoid 1994– Stanley B Greenberg
“Weak Brew: Tea Party’s Frustrated Moderates” profile of Mark Skoda by Lydia DePillis

Nation 3/8
“The Cut Man” — Chris Lehmann on the “Clinton Tapes”

New Statesman, March 1, 2010
“10 People Dave (Cameron) Should Fear” — Harriet O’brien

In These Times, March 2010
Bernie Sanders “The Senate’s Reconcilable Differences”
Vic Fingerhut “Obama and the State of the Democrats: We Ignore the Lessons of 1931, 1948, 1984, and 1988 at Our Peril”

Reason April 2010
“Pink Peril” Jacob Sullum  on “Crystal meth that smells like strawberries”, round about here
“The DC Snow Job” — Radley Balko “Social Networks, Video Sharing, and Blogs Expose Police Lying”

Maclean’s Feb 22, 2010
“How ‘The Beaver’ lost its name“; on the Canadian history’s magazine’s decision to change its name to “Canada’s History”.

Bob Herbert on NYC’s policing policies

Getting in touch with the Republican side of Political hackery regarding Reconciliation and the Process

“Should have called them Life Panels“.

Universial Health Care Global Map

ACORN cleared of wrong-doing:  They edited the tape to meet their agenda
… but acorn’s like the klan.

 The 1990s were a bad decade for superhero comics.  Good decade for other comics, though

“Global Warming Suicide Pact“.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Letterman Cult?  ???  as seen on NBC’s morning program.
… well, you know, the supposed Court Appearance would shore up the ratings, now lagging…

Chalabi now

America’s Olympic Victories in 2010 = the Soviets’ Olympic Victories in 1988

5 Sex Ed Campaigns

Military Industrial Complex continues apace

Paul Krugman angst toward ths Senate Jobs Bill

Obama signs one year extension of Patriot Act

Charles Schultz from beyond the grave.

Profile of Dana Loesch, conservative rising star of Tea Party fame onto talk radio guest stints

Mark Evanier on what cartoons the kids repond to these days

One positive note from Virginia’s incoming governor: No Pomp and Circumstance.  I’ll let go a quick search for how they covered Bush’s 2004 glitzy inagural and Dem chiding.
… and another answer to Weekly Standard

the party of George Wallace

Gotta Love Joe Biden (and I’m not being facetious)!  evokes Garner’s “Warm Bucket” comment.

Unidentified Lobbyists in the Media

Teddy Roosevelt.

Kabul Taliban attacks war reporting

… How about New York elect former Governor Eliot Spitzer?

China defends its hacker school

Irish Priest canned after prostituting himself over the Internet

Anti Legislative Downsizing Movement

Defining “Exclusive” downward.

European Anarchist, Gabriel Kuhn, denied US entry.

Fred Thompson makes a funny.  (?)

Utah bill criminalizes miscarriages

In theory I don’t have a problem with this, teaching the Bible in public classrooms.  I just am about as wary of the execution and motives of everyone involved as I can get.

4 Trillion degrees Celsius

Republicans complain about shortness of Health Care proposal.

3 NYPD police officers acquited of Sodomy

Behind Pat Toomey’s campaign, ala redacted email list

Thomas Freedman’s Bedtime stories

David Letterman interview with Abby Elliott

Vinn Diagramming the different parts of the Tea Party, Conservativism, Republicans, etc.

911 becomes a tool for the Rich

Anti-ACORN Minstrel Show

2012, 1984, 1996
2010, 1994

How Russians view Abraham Lincoln

Never trust a forwarded email that begins with “Glen Beck told me”

North Korean Racist Culture

Your Olympic Games Update.

Some “Birther Candidates”, which as it includes candidates probably not best identified as “birther”  (I have no evidence Rachel Brown is one.) means “Birther” is a term bandied about with broad meaning.

Ron Paul, fools.

It is still fashionable to mock Jay Leno.
TV Shows about Gay People, but… we’re not going to say so.

Rachel Maddow at the CPAC

Obama:  Did not set up teleprompter in an elementary school.

Obama should appoint himself to the Supreme Court.  And… this author should quit pulling stuff out of his ass.

The Lower Pervian School District and its continual defense of bugging lads’ computer to catch him eating… Mike and Ike! 

Mike Dice to start mailing his garbage to Glenn Beck

Meta blog post.  Just like the meta news cast.

Republican plans

No liketh Charlie Crist.

Where Joe Stack is a hero… for his act of terrorism.

Kinja

Kinja Card

Blurb

"HA!"
-- Daniel Pinkwater, famous author and noted Mooseologist

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• Good Luck to President Barack Hussein Obama. May he be better than a Mediocrity.

• Magazines and Periodicals

  
  Washington Monthly
  Harpers
  Reason
  Improbable Research
  Editor and Publisher
  The Atlantic
  Found Magazine
  Mother Jones
  American Conservative
  The Realist, archives
  In These Times
  The Weekly Standard
  This Is A Magazine
  The Comics Journal
  The Progressive

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• Senate 2010 Races

  Potentially Vulnerable Republican Seats
  Retiring
  1. OHIO: George Voinovich
  R: Rob Portman D: Jennifer Brunner, Lee Fisher
  2. MISSOURI: Kit Bond
  R: Roy Blunt D: Robin Carnahan
  3. NEW HAMPSHIRE: Judd Gregg
  R: TBD D: Paul Hodes
  4. KENTUCKY: Jim Bunning
  R: Trey Grayson, Rand Paul. D: Dan Mongiardo, Jack Conway
  Otherwise:
  5. LOUISIANA: David Vitter
  D challenger: Charlie Melancon
  6. NORTH CAROLINA: Richard Burr
  7. FLORIDA: Mel Martinez
  R: Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio D: TBD
  8. IOWA: Chuck Grassley

  Potentially Vulnerable Democratic Seats
  1. North Dakota. Bryon Dorgan retiring.
  Likely R Challenger: John Hoeven.
  2. Delaware: Chris Coons
  R Challenger: Mike Castle
  3. PENNSYLVANIA: Arlen Specter, primary challenge: Joe Sestack
  Challenger: Pat Toomey
  4. Nevada: Harry Reid
  Challenger:
  5. Colorado: Michael Bennet
  6. Arkansas: Blanche Lincoln
  7. Indiana: retiring. Possible Ds: Vi Simpson, Reps. Baron Hill, Brad Ellsworth (D)
  Challenger: Dan Coats, maybe.
  8. Illinois:
  Challenger: Mark Kirk
  9. Connecticut. Chris Dodd, retiring. Richard Blumenthal likely nominee.
  R Challenger: Ron Simmons

  Wikipedia material on the 2010 Senate Elections
  Partisan Democratic following of Senate Elections

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• News and Commentary

  Note: I do not endorse all listed, indeed strenuously unendorse in strongest terms some things.
  Watching America
  Disinformation
  Alternative Weeklies
  History News Network
  Frontline
  This American Life
  Improbably Research
  Prison Planet
  Information Clearing House
  Poe News
  Crooks and Liars
  World Press
  Snopes Urban Legend Debunker
  Democracy Now

• Documents

  
  Open Secrets
  National Security Archives
  The Memory Hole and The Memory Blog
  Reverend Moon Watch
  Paleo-Future
  Paleofuture

• 3 Sources of Continued Amusement

  
  News from Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  Bobby Wolff's Aces on Bridge
  Ziggy

• Lyndon Larouche Corner

  
  You should understand that I have not nor have ever been involved in any Larouchite activity, nor do I know anybody who has. Also, you should understand I don't think much of him. And my invested interest in this is something of a fluke.
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  Fact Net forum. Try it. You'll go insane.
  Dennis King: Website and Unupdated Blog.
  Larouche Planet, material released by former insiders.
  Justice for Jeremiah Duggan.
  Youtube video collection of videos from the Berlin conference of October, 2008.
  Ken Kronberg Memorial Page
  What Happened With PMR, and Larouche's bungled attempts at damage control.
  Revisionist History to place Molly Kronberg, as opposed to George Bush the elder, as the one most responsible for Larouche's Prison Sentence
  "Time For Truth" -- The Final Product of a Larouchian education.
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  LYM on Youtube
  Washington Post "No Joke" article, seminal recent article
  
  "Why Lyndon Larouche is a Fraud"
  (all you see on this blog)
  Jeremiah Duggan and related posts.

  • Electronic Media

    
    This American Life
    Rachel Maddox
    Tim Riley.
    Mike Malloy
    Thom Hartmann
    Jon Stewart

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