Media Question of the Evening

Ana Marie Cox wrote this as part of a Spring Cleaning series at the WaPo (institutions that could be thrown out):
It’s not that the reporters covering the president are bad at their jobs. Most are experienced journalists at the top of their game — and they’re wasted at the White House, where scoops are doled [...]

Vice President Biden on 60 Minutes Tonight.

Set your DVRs, or watch it the old fashioned way … live. Vice President Biden gave “60 Minutes” the chance to shadow him for a few days, and the result will be shown tonight, along with the interview, at 7 p.m. on CBS.

Swine Flu: US Declares A Public Health Emergency

Via HuffPo:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is declaring a public health emergency to deal with the emerging new swine flu.
The precautionary step doesn’t signal a greater threat to Americans. But it allows the federal and state governments easier access to flu tests and medications.
It has also been confirmed that the eight NYC students are infected with [...]

Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Laughing At Texas

The Texas secessionist talk is growing.  To liberals, myself included, it’s the joke that keeps on giving, but, to a certain segment of Texans, secession is serious business.  Once again, the talk is escalating, and it’s not funny – especially if you’re a liberal, minority, or non-christian living in Texas.
From Free Republic Threads on Texas [...]

Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 26 Edition

LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: US Major Claims US Torture Has Caused More American Deaths than 9-11
Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for Journalism, shows the counterproductivity of torture through the experienced lens of US Major Matthew Alexander. Alexander’s interrogation team located the hideout of al-Zarqawi without the use of torture.
The use of torture [...]

WRong Williams Says Delaware’s Most Famous Bush Enabler Considering Senate

There will be no place for Mike Castle to hide if he runs for the Senate.
It will not be a couple of angry state bloggers picking over his record and throwing his Bush loving 8 years in his face every time he tries to claim to be this great moderate.
It will be the full force [...]

Late Night Music Video: Regina Spektor – Bobbing For Apples

This is a live performance from Tuscon, AZ. There is no studio-recorded version of this song yet.
lovely people, lovely places,
i can’t remember names and i can’t remember faces;
someone next door’s f***ing to one of my songs.

Deep Culture Thought

I can’t wait to see the new Star Trek Movie. I hear it taps into the upbeat and optimistic mood of the country brought about by the election of Barack Obama in the same way the last movie sucked ass as a metaphor for how much Bush sucked.

Point and Laugh for 4/25

Click on image below to bring on teh stoopid.

Ostrich photo by lorentey.

Newt Gingrich — New King of the Climate Change Deniers

After Al Gore and Senator Warner gave their testimony, Newt Gingrich provided testimony on climate change for the wingnuts. Meaning that he was there to cheer on the polluters, continue the denial stance of the GOP and to roll out some new framing of the issue. I haven’t found any video of Gingrich’s opening [...]

GOP’s Bread and Butter

Apparently when Gov. Sebelius was running for Governor in Kansas, she accepted donations from a doctor . . . a doctor who performs abortions. You can see why the GOP must hold up Sebelius’ nomination as President Obama’s health secretary. So when you have no ideas and the public is tiring of your Policy of [...]

Al Gore Among the Wingnuts — Part 2

Rep. Joe (Plate Tectonics) Barton gets schooled by Al Gore on how corporations lie. Barton does NOT get the clue that these corporations have just deep-sixed all of his anti-climate change cred. Barton will blame that on paleogeology soon.