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From The Rachel Maddow Show, July 15:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy"...each additional American life sacrificed to a goal we know we won't reach is a moral outrage... if you believe that our actions -- our American actions -- in 2010 cannot make it more likely that there's a real government in Afghanistan, then asking Americans to die in Afghanistan is wrong."...

Newton's First Law states: An object's inertia causes it to continue moving the way it is moving unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force to change its motion. In the simplest of terms, this means an object (like a passive-aggressive GOP body politik) will always continue moving at its current speed (slowly or not at all as the party of "no"), and in its current direction (down into the muck) until some...

    Desperado sent me this gem from Media Matters: So... race relations were fine until people started "making it about slavery?"  Was he educated in Texas or South Carolina or something? I almost feel like I'm insulting my readers if I give you a detailed list of the pre-civil-war race clashes.  Of the free blacks that were captured, sold to slavery, beaten, children ripped from them and sold, and on and on and...

I have an idea to help pay for the oil spill cleanup. The Feds can sell corporate sponsorships, like sports arenas and stadiums do. The government agencies involved are already doing BP's bidding at every turn thus far, they might as well bring in some revenue to help defray the costs. There's the BP/EPA, who ordered that a less toxic dispersant than Corexit be used--almost a month ago. Corexit is still being dumped into the...

Les Kinsolving of World Nut Net Daily at Thursday's briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, asking not only about President Obama's birth certificate (again) but his Social Security number as well. From Mediaite:...

President Bush admits to committing war crimes and the media overlooks the story to report about Obama's job offers to Democratic primary challengers. You may not have heard, but  in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, former President of the United States of America admitted to committing a war crime. President George W. Bush said, "Yeah, we water boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I'd do it again to save lives." In the same speech he went...

(Warning: While the following is somewhat connected to politics, it is in reality nothing more than a convenient excuse for an admittedly superficial male to post a photo of a beautiful (and I mean bee-yoo-ti-ful) young woman in a swimsuit. If that type of thing offends you, please stop here and do not scroll down). There is some controversy from some of the usual suspects on the far-right surrounding the crowning of Rima Fakih, Miss...

Two of the best local commercials from small businesses.  Posted without further comment, except, don't be drinking anything while watching.  It will short out your keyboard:Have a great weekend....

Every time I watch Meet the Press I'm reminded of the magnitude of the loss of Tim Russert. Yesterday's program only reinforced that as an unprepared Tom Brokaw allowed Karl Rove's claim that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to use Iraqi oil revenues to offset the cost of the war to go unchallenged: Here's the exchange:  <br />Brokaw's next statement was, "Well, let's talk about the insurgency." Here's what Russert would...

This appeared on CNN's Crossfire in 2004. Not much seems to have changed. We're still grossly partisan as a nation (or at least the politicians are), and the media are still hacks."I'm not your monkey" ... Jon Stewart, I love you.As you know, CNN cancelled Crossfire in January of 2005 -- more info in an interesting follow-up piece here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/01/4509.ars" ... most major media outlets, have a long way to go before the thinking public truly respects...