Mr. Olbermann: I couldn’t agree with you more. We need more checks and balances. I know there is very little we can do as individuals, but we are not powerless to take some steps on our own. For instance, MSNBC might look in its own back yard as a worthy place to start applying checks and balances by airing a greater proportion of conservative and Republican thought. Currently, it airs

I was mulling things over, and realized that there is a comfort – no matter what your partisan affiliation, no matter your hope for the outcome of the election – available for you.

Okay.  So maybe I’m embellishing a bit. But still.  update:  What the hell. If Rather can dredge up the past, so can I.

For those of you interested, I’ll be re-engaging with politics for a day to add inane observations to tomorrow’s extensive and informed commentary at Pajamas Media.  Which is to say, while dilligent and sincere PJM correspondents will be engaging in actual citizen journalism of the highest order, I’ll be sitting home on my couch writing vignettes that compare, say, Tom Tancredo to an El Camino low rider with one of

First, Sully put credence in a video by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones about Dick Cheney (and remained agnostic, even though a few moments with “the Google” would have debunked it.) Second, he was skeptical of the UK terror plot disrupted in August. He has not revisited that one, though Mark Mershon, head of the FBI’s New York field office, has suggested that US and UK intell officials now think that

Did I mention that I was looking forward to seeing Borat?  I’m pretty sure I did. And I was going to, yesterday, with son Brendan (15).  But then Mary and the girl (Mairead, 11) decided that they really needed to go to the Alpaca Show, and I couldn’t find a play-date or film companion for Aidan (13, schizophrenia), and I ended up having to accompany Aidan to Flushed Away, which

Check out the new PowerLine News.  Clean lines.  Beauty.  My friend Joe Malchow, when he wasn’t being instrumental in getting the proposed anti-democratic revisions to the Dartmouth Constitution shot down, played a major role in getting this together.  In my view, it’s best in show.  Probably save you guys some time in the morning, as well.

From Glenn Reynolds: DUMBEST. TV SHOW. EVER. Last night I caught a few minutes of “The Celebrity Paranormal Project” on VH1. Celebrities festooned with Ghostbusters-type gear, wandering around allegedly haunted places. Picabo Street as a medium. Jeez. However, I can report that Mariel Hemingway remains very hot. She deserves better. But then, so do we. . . . Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women

Move over, Karl Marx.  Roll over, Beethoven.  Get outta town, Nostradamus. The long awaited Monkifesto is now available for the first time on the intarweb: If you want the Monkifesto in a nutshell, here it is: Pax Americana is drawing to a close. Pax Sinae is here: http://tinyurl.com/y9teo3 Any country that relies on economic or military support from America to survive now beter start pleading their case to the Chinese

Is it my fading memory, or has this polical season been the worst ever?  I blush to admit that I’ve only followed politics starting with the 2000 election season, and even then, I didn’t pay all that much attention.  Most of my information was from sound-bites from sparingly-watched news programs, and from the Maclaughlin group.  Once I started reading blogs, which I think was around 2001, I slowly morphed into