Blame It On Steinski

The question is not: Are all pigs Republicans? The question is: Are all Republicans pigs?

Yes on the federal level – Joe “The Distinguished Asshole From South Carolina” Wilson did it once, now he does it again:

Yes on the state level – Pro “family values” Republican State Representative brags on mic about extramarital affairs with two women, one of whom is a lobbyist with business in front of him:

Bonus:

Plenty of other sanctimonious Republican assholes, as…

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Joke Of The Day

What do you call someone with cancer and…

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A Death In The Family

R.I.P. Dave
(1997 – 2009)

He was fine.

This is our last dance together,
Tonight soon will be long ago.
And in our moment of parting,
This is all I want you to know…

There will be many other nights like this,
And I’ll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing,
Another fall…another spring…
But there will never be another…

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My friend The Breakbeatles

As I was saying…

Breakbeatles – Back To The TopSee more like this on…

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Washington Post article on foreign health care plans, delineated by Trudy Lieberman (and reprinted here in toto from Columbia Journalism Review without permission)

Trudy Lieberman brings it like a champion, once again. How would you know about this otherwise?

(Some of the added emphasis in this post is mine; to read the unadulterated version, check the CJR site)

From CJR:

Campaign Desk – August 28, 2009 01:39 PM

Laurel to T.R. Reid

For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems

By Trudy Lieberman

As I have posted many…

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The press; a few loose ends

1) Is it really reporting if it’s just repeating?

2) Is it really reporting if you’re repeating an out-and-out lie?

3) The Pentagon is profiling reporters based on how how complimentary their writing is. That, of course, is why we fight for the Constitution. Not exactly a free press, more of… a nice press.

Ernie Pyle is turning over in his grave.

4) Is it really reporting if your…

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The health care thing; a few loose ends

Trudy Lieberman bringing it every time:

1) Was a public plan ever really in the cards?

2) Who will be at the table? (part XIV)

3) Who will be at the table? (the whole sad story).

4) Nicholas Kristof interviews one of the originators of the “Block Socialized Medicine” shitbomb (he feels bad about it now). Homeboy also spilled his guts to The Hill.

5) Robert Reich thinks the public…

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The torture thing; a few loose ends

1) About those torture memos Cheney swore would exonerate his lying ass.

2) Not that the CIA even paid attention to its own regulations, because torturing the people we kidnap is a good thing in and of itself.

3) The CIA and the Bush White House kept tight, hour-by-hour supervision of torture that truly rivals the Nazis; check the record-keeping.

4) Eichmanns For Hire. The only…

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What if the RIAA had existed in 1915?

The “Home Cylinder Duplication Is Killing The Music Industry” refrigerator magnet.

Thanks to Kev at DJ…

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The Duke On A Foggy Morning

Like the pack rat I am, I’ve been carrying around the December 1975 copy of Esquire – the theme of the issue is Great American Things – because it contains a lovely profile of Duke Ellington written by photographer/director/author Gordon Parks, illustrated with his photos. In the mid-1950’s Parks traveled with Ellington and his band (probably for LIFE Magazine), and his reminiscences of that…

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