What’s the biggest problem in your life?

10 comments February 16th, 2009

 

Hey, no problem is too big for our handy, dandy REPUBLICAN PROBLEM SOLVER.

Will Burris survive? I have my doubts

1 comment February 16th, 2009

 

You say you want bipartisanship?

Well, Democrats and Republicans alike are LOOKING ASKANCE at the emerging scandal in which Sen. Roland Burris, an appointee of the notorious Rod Blagojevich, finds himself.

Frankly, I think the guy is out of his element — not so much a crook as a schnook.

Straight folks in the crosshairs

4 comments February 16th, 2009

You know, some of them gays have got sniper rifles, as you can see at the 57-second mark of this video:

TPM covers the day in 100 seconds

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How much is a trillion?

5 comments February 16th, 2009

 

We hear the word “trillion” bandied about a lot these days, but few of us can get our minds around such a large number. For some of us, even “billion” and “million” are unfathomably huge.

Perhaps we can better understand if we apply these words to time:

A million seconds ago, a picture emerged in the world media purporting to show Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smoking dope through a bong.

A billion seconds ago, Gerald Ford was president, Spain was mourning the death of Francisco Franco (whose passing gave rise to a long-running joke on “Saturday Night Live”), Michael Jackson still had the nose he was born with and Walter Payton was playing his rookie season with the Chicago Bears.

A trillion seconds ago, nobody on the planet could read or write, none of the great religions had yet emerged and Neanderthals (the early ones, not the Limbaugh dittoheads) were camping out in what is now Europe (see illustration above).

Starstruck Republican lawmakers seek autographs from Barack Obama

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Limbaugh, Hannity and Co. are sure to wax apoplectic over THIS.

Five’ll  get you ten that the self-appointed guardians of right-wing purity will label the offenders shameless RINOs (Republicans in name only).

Don’t ya luv it?

Big Dog growls at angry old man and friends

12 comments February 16th, 2009

 

Bill Clinton (known as “Big Dog” to some admirers) offered a few POINTED REMARKS yesterday in response to something John McCain said.

(Commenters: I’ll make you a deal. If you don’t bring up Clinton’s record of adultery, I won’t bring up McCain’s.)

University of Illinois refutes George Will on its global-warming data

1 comment February 16th, 2009

 

George Will’s column in The Washington Post yesterday purported to dispute the claims of us nervous Nellies who are concerned about the onset of global warming.

But, alas, poor Georgie screwed up when he attempted to invoke data produced by the Arctic Climate Research Center at the University of Illinois.

Within hours, the Center was out with a statement that should disabuse Will of his misinterpretations.

Will similarly misrepresented data from the World Meteorological Organization.

Read all about it HERE.

UPDATE: Nate Silver also gives Will a pretty good WHAT-FOR.

Winners and losers and the chattering class

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Kos makes some good points HERE about the Beltway blowhards and their frequent inability to discern what the public is thinking.

Let’s give U.S. bank execs the British treatment

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A leading British conservative — repeat: conservative — wants to PUNISH bank executives over there with truly draconian limits on their compensation.

Good idea.