Garrett:  “Eh, what’s to tell, really?  Orange jumpsuits, all-male showers, fatty foods served cafeteria style on plastic plates—it’s like they’re sending me back to high school in the 70s again.  Only, y’know, without the heroin and primo herb.  “Plus, I won’t lie to you:  the chances of Barbie Benton getting drunk on Champagne and using her foot to get me off like she did at Elaine’s in ‘79 are virtually

From the NY Daily News’ Front Page, “The billionaire, the Post and the $220G shakedown:  Page Six writer wanted $$$ to stop inaccurate coverage”: A New York Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year’s “protection” against inaccurate and unflattering items about him in the gossip page, the Daily News has learned. In two 90-minute meetings, characterized by a shocking breach of ethics,

Well, those whacky “Others,” eh?  From Reuters: A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their “masters,” The Times of India reported Tuesday. “A donkey is like a housewife … In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk

So I spent the morning dragging the wife and kid through the rain and cold to make my pulmonologist appointment, only to learn that he’d been called to the hospital on an emergency (evidently, unlike the crap they try to sell you on “ER,” pulmonary specialists are needed for intubations). Which means I had to reschedule—and probably won’t get to see this guy for another 2-3 weeks.  Here’s hoping any

Man.  Somebody on the anti-war side better get to work pushing that “these so-called ‘captured’ documents are all CIA / Chalabi plants, and are, like, so totally worthless” meme.  And quickly!  Otherwise, the “official” narrative that Bush Lied might just unravel—and well before the November elections. OPEN THREAD!

Debbie Schlussel introduces her readers to someone who claims to know released hostage and Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll.  The picture of her he paints isn’t very pretty.  Especially if you happen to deplore anti-semitism and find distasteful Americans who rail against their country as “imperialists” and not a force for good in the world, even as its armed forces are fighting to free an entire population from under

Two emails I received today point to posts that show the divide among the Republican voting coalition over the issue of illegal immigration. First, here’s Confederate Yankee’s Bob Owens: That empty, sick feeling of betrayal in your stomach resulting from Senate Republican’s selling their constituents down the river with their immigration compromise does has a name. It’s called being Fristed. Sadly, it can only be cured by ballots. See also,

From the Washington Post: An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to “knock Steele down.” The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters—as much as 44 percent—would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances “after hearing Steele’s messaging.” “Governor

On tonight’s “Colbert Report,” Markos Moulitsas Zuniga—your “Daily Kos” emcee—blinks and susses his way to media stardom.  Check your local listings for the time. Also, don’t miss tonight’s debate between Zionist sympathizer and fascist traitor to the ideals of the Movement, David Horowitz, and Ward Churchill—famed Native-American-esque artist and tenured university professor, whose scholarship on “ethnic studies” never fails to speak Truth to Power (though it does often fail to

FIRE’s President Greg Lukianoff emails: Today, FIRE adds Appalachian State University to the long list of institutions at which it has toppled speech codes. Following FIRE and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy’s landmark Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System, and at the behest of student activists, App State recently repealed its most egregious speech code. We are