Monthly Archives: October 2009

Saturday Afternoon TV

The Day the Universe Changed, Episode 3

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Halloween Special

Bugs Bunny in Hair-Raising Hare:

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Obama Documentary

This looks really interesting. I’m glad Ed Norton took time away from Hollywood to do it; a historic election like Obama’s should be documented in real-time.

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Obama’s New Afghanistan Strategy

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Ahmed Wali Kharzai, brother of Afghan president Hamid Kharzai (currently arranging the theft of a runoff election) is on the CIA payroll and waist-deep in the opium trade. American strategy for the last … Continue reading

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Just Like Bush

Morning tab dump: Obama has ended the grant program for abstinence-only education, restored powers to the independent Intelligence Oversight Board, announced $3.4 billion in stimulus grants for smart grid technology, helped make electric cars a reality, and cut several unnecessary … Continue reading

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Morning Awful

This fascinating exercise in wingnutery comes via the Brad Blog. Presenting an alternate reality where the tea parties were NOT created by FreedomWorks, a self-appointed documentarian focuses on the one black man in the crowd and covers the nonsense with … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck vs the Arts: Fiasco

There is fail, there is epic fail, and there is a rarefied realm of sublimely perfect fiasco. Glenn Beck has that essential problem of topping himself all the time; after a boiled plastic frog, what’s next? Thus the perfect ingredients … Continue reading

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Morning Video

Microcameras! I want them all!

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Stimulus Economics

Last time you went shopping, how many jobs did you create? You have no way of knowing how your dollar turned up, or with whom, or what they did with it. But as Obama’s stimulus jobs report comes out today, … Continue reading

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Who’s Stalking Lou Dobbs? (UPDATE)

Is someone angry enough at Lou Dobbs to shoot at his house? ThinkProgress says it’s more likely Dick Cheney was hunting nearby: Sgt. Jones, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police, confirmed that a bullet was found which struck … Continue reading

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MSM Finally Discovering Public Option

Yes, the public option will help reduce the deficit by holding down costs. That fact finally got prominent mention from Paul Krugman this morning as he called out the fence-sitters: (C)onsider the remarkable exchange that took place this week between … Continue reading

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