The latest bit of Rudeness is awesome for that image alone, but really it goes so much further into why nobody should ever listen to John McCain: The whole battle over a bullshit modicum of bullshit “pork barrel” projects is, well, bullshit. What’s budgeted in the spending bill now...

Stocks drop 400 points after Geithner’s shitty bank bailout plan is unveiled. Now, think about how bad it is that the stock markets WANT THE BAD BANKS TO FAIL. Because they know they can’t go back up until the shitpile is gone. But the Obama administration is more concerned with the appe...

Shorter Naked Capitalism: God, what a rancid loaf of shit this banking plan is. Oh, but David Brooks swoons at its majesty! (Feel better now?) And Krugman, who’s been more right than most people, says: I was going to dub the new financial plan TANF 2 — temporary assistance to needy financial...

L.A. Times’ Michael Hiltzik: On NBC, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), said she wanted the bill to have more spending on infrastructure, but she wanted it to be on military infrastructure, even though much of that winds up as scrap metal in Iraq and Afghanistan, not bridges and schoolhouses...

Everyone should come together and give a big sigh. Weep for the poor, hard done by staff in the Obama administration. Get this, they don’t have access to Facebook or their personal email accounts on their new Whitehouse computers. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presid...

And here I thought novelty celebrity phone messages were a thing of the past. Not so for Game Crazy, who have Samuel L. Jackson reminding customers to pre-order Afro Samurai. Sure he doesn't quite pronounce Namco Bandai correctly, but he doesn't need to. He's Samuel L. Jackson, and when he tells you...

I’ve posted here before on the potential outcomes of altering the traditional definition of marriage. Now Darcey has another post demonstrating that once you’ve opened up the subject, others are going to take the ball and run with it. Last spring, Aly Hindy of the Salaheddin Islamic Cent...

Notice the constantly shifting realities. Republicans, confronted with an indisputable fact, simply create different “facts.” It’s not that we’re in the grip of a worldwide recession and the numbers of unemployed people are tapping out the state unemployment funds, it’s...

And of course this has been working so well for… well, decades now! The Israelis bomb people who obviously can’t respond in kind, civilians suffer disproportionately, everyone gets outraged and then we simply forget about it - until it happens again and again. What a great system! GAZA C...

I think I could put up with the Royal Family for this: Credit card giants have been given two weeks to agree to stop charging exorbitant rates to borrowers or risk losing their operating licences. Ministers said they were giving Britain’s major lenders one last chance to prove they were not pr...