Fake Koch
“Well, I’ll tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards, I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.”
Boycott Koch
The New York Times reports that Charles and David H., the brothers Koch, play a part in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s union-busting initiative.
Supporting NPR
A website worth visiting
Budgetary surrealism
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on the PBS NewsHour.
Mitch McConnell's to-do list
Is there any precedent in modern times?
Mitch McConnell's to-do list
David Foster Wallace
There is no such thing as not voting.
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About Illinois politics
Elections and misspellings
Only in Illinois
Boycott Koch Industries
Like it says
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Roger Ebert, telling it like it is
On truth and democracy
At least he didn't attempt to explain it as "a poor choice of words."
At least General Stanley McChrystal hasn’t attempted to explain his remarks to Rolling Stone as “a poor choice of words,” the usual fallbac...
Biden's Virgil
Did Virgil say it?
HCR
At last
A cow on the tracks
Michael Steele's inept metaphor
Bob Herbert on present danger
Bob Herbert’s latest column
Joe Wilson’s “he”
Disrespecting the president via pronouns
Advice for Joe Wilson
Behave!
Rod Blagojevich, maker of metaphors
He thinks he's Icarus (ugh)
Going to the meeting
Report from a townhall meeting on health care reform
Then and now
Joe Klein: "Where is the Republican who would dare say that to Rush Limbaugh, who has compared the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler?"
Health Insurance Reform Reality Check
"The White House has created a website to combat the toxic legends in the air."
Krugman on Rockwell
Right on healthcare reform, wrong about what's happening in a Norman Rockwell painting
Something's coming
In Alaska, that is
Obama's "evil eye"
Non-news in the Drudge Report
"[S]imply a controlled acute episode"
"I suspect that 'controlled acute episode' will join 'enhanced interrogation techniques' as historical shorthand for the George W. Bush administration's utter corruption of language, moral reasoning, and democratic principles."
No dropping out
From Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress
Montblanc "Yes We Can" pen
Marketing at its best. Not.
Casinos, museums, and parks
Lumped together in an amendment to the stimulus bill