Beth’s response: “Why do people do this to themselves?” My response: “Jesus, if you’re gonna be proposing in public, you’d better be damn sure you’re 100% going to get a ‘yes’ or you’re gonna feel like a real dumbass.”
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of … Continue reading
Remember Jenna Marbles? She’s back… She totally cracks me up…
KCBS 2 television reporter Serene Branson’s garbled speech during a live Grammy broadcast last Sunday was not the result of a small stroke as many have speculated but was instead a symptom of a “complex migraine,” according to her physician, … Continue reading
Iraq’s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The city’s government issued … Continue reading
The “budget hawks” around the country are out in full force defending Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker today. Many have dismissed the recent spate of protests as typical Madison Wisconsin liberal politicking, but of course they completely miss the point. At … Continue reading
Surprised? I’m not. The last public speaker at Tuesday’s meeting, Jeff Turner, began by stating that he would refer to “a certain member of the court” — Price — as “the Chief Mulllah of Dallas County.” Court rules state that … Continue reading
Tunisia… Egypt… Yemen… Jordan… Now Bahrain… Protesters in the key Gulf state of Bahrain threatened on Tuesday night to keep up a permanent Egypt-style demonstration in the capital until demands for the government to be sacked were met. As calls … Continue reading
Even Jesus stops to look…
Citing House rules, the GOP-controlled House Rules Committee blocked a proposed amendment to a funding bill that would have withheld funds for implementing the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the Hill. The proposed amendment was introduced by … Continue reading
An attack that kills 3,000 citizens—even if only once every 10 years—is nothing to ignore of course, and some limited effort to clean out Al Qaeda in Afghanistan might have been justified. But is it worth spending $1 trillion on … Continue reading
Public broadcasting received a vote of confidence today from the Obama Administration. The President’s FY 2012 budget submission to Congress included $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for the two year advance appropriation for FY 2014, an … Continue reading
Newsbusters does some good work, and sometimes they have a hair-trigger on the outragemeter. This time, it’s the latter. On a post on Facebook, Contessa Brewer, who is quite possibly the dumbest person ever to stand in front of a … Continue reading
Why put it out to the public, then ignore what they have to say? Ever notice how these campaigns always do that? They put the idea out to the public, and then they proceed to ignore what the public actually … Continue reading
Whoa… This is scary…
Here’s the thing though, there’s not so much a power vacuum in Egypt as there is an idea vacuum. For 30 years – and for 10 before that – the country was directed by virtually the same political leadership. Those … Continue reading