The Continuing Assault On Reason by digby A few years back Al Gore wrote a book called "The Assault on Reason." I'm sure many of you read it. We were in the middle of that bizarroworld period after 9/11, when post-modern "conservatives" were openly admitting to creating their own reality: The aide s...

Most of the people who so disliked the policies and administration of George Bush wanted to see him impeached - all legal-like and proper. The right isn't so kind and decent to Obama. After slightly more than 50 days in office, the wingnuttery on cable TV want to see armed rebellion, revolt, or just...

Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...

...In order for there to be cognitive dissonance there has to be actual, you know, cognition, and that seems in very short supply among Republicans lately. It appears that some of the bloviating blockheads at Fixed Noise are doing that most Republican of things, making an "enemies list." Not surpris...

During Alaska's State of the State speech in January of this year, Governor Palin said, "As public servants, will we draw from a servant's heart the resolve to put pettiness and power struggles aside and work together for the good of the people? We have the choice." Wow. She sounded great! What a re...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009.  Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces another death, another deadly Baghdad bombing with mass fatalities, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and Thomas E. Ricks talk Iraq realities while Phyllis Bennis sounds like a raving lunatic, and more.   Let's start wit...

Perhaps signaling media impatience with the Obama administration's economic policy, Tuesday's "Good Morning America" featured a challenging look at the performance of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who the show had previously described as "wonky." Reporter Jake Tapper observed ...

As many of you know, I go out of my way to avoid politics on my blog… I mean, not counting the John McCain Victory Speech Drinking Game I invented, or the post I made about how stupid Conservapedia is, or the video I posted of Mitt Romney acting like a douchebag, or my very first blog postR...

It's nice, David Frum, that you drew out your slingshot, and fired some rocks at The Cheeseburger That Sweats , especially knowing that the Flying Monkeys and Dittoheads will, likely, be sending you some nasty, vile vibes back at you. Or that anyone in the PartyofNoicans would get behind you with it...

Other than those of us with our eyes, ears and minds open - who could have guessed that conservative Americans would be frantically shrieking about the immorality of David Ogden's Deputy Attorney General nomination out of one corner of their mouths while madly salivating over internet pornography ou...