We're so cool.

If everybody went back to where they came from... we'd all end up in Kenya.

Tuesday casserole

WTF is wrong with Americans?

Why we should watch the virulent religious fanaticism oozing to the surface in the US.

What is wrong with Governor Brown?  MORE jails? Really?

Paving with solar panels.

Hagfish kill by slime.

Drinkable books.

10 ingredients that don't belong in your bathroom.

Shaming, shunning, (soon to be stoning) women who have abortions.

A billboard actually doing something worth while: eating pollution.

Al Franken on the internetal tubes.

Oh, and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

Weird, wise and wonderful... and simply stupid

21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

Dog

The dangers of privatizing things that governments do.

Solar cell breakthrough taps previously unused energy source

11 Bizarrely Wrong Beliefs Americans Have About Themselves

Throwing trash into a volcano as an experiment. I'd be freaked out.





11 facts about the Affordable Care Act

Krugman:

None of this should be happening. As in 1931, Western nations have the resources they need to avoid catastrophe, and indeed to restore prosperity — and we have the added advantage of knowing much more than our great-grandparents did about how depressions happen and how to end them. But knowledge and resources do no good if those who possess them refuse to use them. And that’s what seems to be happening. The fundamentals of the world economy aren’t, in themselves, all that scary; it’s the almost universal abdication of responsibility that fills me, and many other economists, with a growing sense of dread.

Strange, I don't feel that out of balance

But they call me extremely progressive.... the average score for Americans is 209.5.

Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?

I'm 344 out of 400. Do I get a cookie?

A note to Senator McConnell

Federal employees are Americans. They pay taxes. And they vote.

Hyuk Hyuk... *cough*

The Onion:

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize

Tom Tomorrow does 2010 pure crazy.

Lindsey Graham rules the Senate by 'hissy fits'.

Praising Barbour. Or not...

DeMint whining about Christmas and having to work and stuff.

And the weirdness of Americans for all to see.... Sorry about that.

So if we take Lieberman at his word

Can we negate HIS citizenship?

Lieberman On Revoking Terrorists' Citizenship: 'American Citizenship Is A Privilege, Not A Right'

Because he's really really irritating me. And he obviously doesn't give a shit about the Constitution. Reason enough!

What the Brits think of Americans

Besides bafflement and confusion:

It's not so much contempt they feel toward America as bafflement: Sarah Palin is as alien to Brits as a prehistoric creature dragged from the depths of the sea. You can't accuse them of objecting to a strong, ideologically rigid female presence in politics (hello, Margaret Thatcher and her handbag of doom!), but the forces that formed her ideology are bewildering. Remember, fewer than 10 per cent of Britons regularly attend church; they do not have the death penalty; abortion is a private, not a political matter; and their familiarity with guns extends to occasionally going out in plaid trousers and blasting the heads off tiny birds.

So the British newspapers have, like The New York Herald shoving Henry Stanley out the door in search of Dr. Livingstone, sent their reporters to explore America's dark, unknowable heart. “Judgment day is not far away,” read the headline on The Times's story about one of Palin's spiritual advisers – the one who thinks the apocalypse may be coming, and not just to a cinema near you.

The Daily Mail, as cheeky as it is fear-mongering, sent a female reporter to have a Palin makeover, which, she informed us perkily, made her feel “very powerful indeed.” The story was illustrated with a series of famous faces – including Barack Obama's – stuck under the now-famous glasses and bun.

When The Sunday Times sent its acerbic critic A.A. Gill (no bleeding heart) to the Republican convention, he watched Palin speak and pronounced, “I think she looks hard and calculating and a bit of a bitch.” This week the BBC released a poll of 22,000 people in 22 countries, which revealed that by an overwhelming margin – four to one – the world wants Obama to win. Of course, their vote is as meaningless as mine, which raises the dire prospect of four more years trying to explain a country that, increasingly, I don't understand myself.

(The writer is Canadian.) And as an American, I'd like to apologize profoundly for the last eight years. I'd like to say we won't do it again, but we have yet to figure out a way to fumigate for stupidity.

It's getting harder and harder to keep that bubble inflated

When people are beginning to come out of their trances and share how they were used to silence protesters to protect Our Dear Leader.

The Kenosha Kid shares the pdf that talks about a White House manual telling how the faithful and righteous can wave signs to block protesters, or shout them down, or have them removed from the area... making sure the media does not see them!

You mean... all that speechifying by the preznit... was only to LOYAL Bushies and not to ALL Americans?

I'm so shocked....

Bush's most importantest speech ever

And as Keith Olbermann points out:
"today it is his credibility versus that of generals, diplomats, allies, Republicans, Democrats, the Iraq Study Group, past presidents, voters last November, and the majority of the American people."

No wonder Georgie looked so nervous.