Archives for July 2011

Ann Telnaes: Sen. McConnell on raising taxes.

Thom: Will Ronald McDonald be added to Mt. Rushmore?

Maddow calls out Romney’s lie.

Glenn Beck Finally Goes the Fuck Away:

• A requiem for a Rodeo Clown (via Media Matters).
• Beck’s final show in ninety seconds (via TalkingPointsMemo).
• Newsy: Glenn Beck is gone, but no deed to “dispair”.
• O’Donnell: The end of a 2.5 year mistake
• Cenk: Glenn goes away

Goldman Sachs CEO outsources his way to Worst Person in the World.

Cenk: FAUX News’ Nixon roots.

Maddow: Koch Bros killing unions.

Thom and Jim Hightower: Gov Rick Perry is the Koch brother’s new poster boy?.

Palin Around with Crazy:

• Newsy: Teh Undefeated.
• Sarah and Bristol’s pathetic draw at Mall of America

Olbermann defines FOX Populi.

President Obama welcomes the Seattle Storm:

Thom: Proof that Rich people aren’t the job creators!

Some Flake Announces:

• Newsy: Bachmann makes it official.
• Young Turks: Is Michele Bachmann ripping off Sarah Palin?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Bachmann’s ding-bat economic plan.
• Olbermann: Why Bachmann is a flake.
• Young Turks: Michele Bachmann’s founding fathers BS.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Bachmann tries to rewrite the history of slavery.
• Newsy: Will Bachmann’s gaffes hurt her
• Cenk: Bachmann’s misuse of government funds.
• Stephen: American heroes Michele Bachmann and John Wayne (Gacy).
• Young Turks: Is Michele Bachmann’s pro-life story believable?
• Sam Seder: Tom Petty slaps Michele Bachmann with cease and desist.
• Young Turks: Michele Bachmann’s conservative christian husband.

Thom performs an an Exorcism on the GOP.

Seattle cop leaves assault weapon on top of car.

Head of TSA is Worst Person in the World.

Maddow: Arguments over the years against the ERA.

More Jon and FAUX:

• Jon eviscerates Jon.
• Liberal Viewer: Jon Stewart, FOX News argue if 2 wrongs make a right?

Stephen: Ted Nugent is hopping mad that youth aren’t joining the teaparty.

WTF: Has Mitt Romney ever heard of Teh Google?!?:

Jon on the the GOP candidate doppelgangers.

Tweety: Most Americans still blame Bush for economic hard times.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Olbermann: Kansas judge delays new abortion law from taking effect .

Cenk: TX Sen. John Cornyn’s batant anti-Obama hypocrisy.

Jon: Debt ceiling debate and the future American dystopia.

Teh Gay Marriage:

• Olbermann with The Stranger’s Dan Savage on what’s next for same-sex marriage.
• Ann Telnaes: Obama’s evolving views on gay marriage.
• Some natural love:
• Jon on gay people getting married
• Some U.S. Senators: It gets better.
• Obama celebrates LBGT month.
• Young Turks: Pat Robertson invokes “angel rape”.

Sam Seder: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) dealing with two disasters.

Mark Halperin calls Obama “a dick” on national TV.

Olbermann defines fibber-tarian.

Thom with another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Mark Fiore: A child’s Supreme right to violence.

Thom with Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on the constitutionality of the debt ceiling.

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA-01) Runs for Governor:

• Jay Inslee announces.
• Rep. Jay Inslee on marijuana.
• Rep. Jay Inslee on marriage equality.
• Latest gubernatorial candidate is a former Yakima politician
• Rep. Inslee makes a stop in Spokane.

Maddow: Republican war on women in Kansas escalates.

Their Back! The Republican Plan.

Thom: More Republican war on Democracy—the Minnesota shutdown.

Olbermann: Are Republicans trying to sabotage the U.S. economy?

White House: West Wing Week.

ONN: Coal lobby warns that wind farms my blow earth out of orbit.

Maddow: Ohioans unite against Republican Gov. John Kasich’s union-busting bill.

Mr. Colbert’s Excellent FEC Adventure:

• Stephen explains his SuperPAC.
• Mr. Colbert may form his PAC.
• Colbert: “I am a SuperPAC.
• Stephen reflects on his new SuperPAC (via TalkingPointsMemo).
• Newsy: Colbert’s SuperPAC gets FEC approval.

Pap: deniers watching the world burn.

WI Justice Prosser has a hissy-fit with reporter (via TalkingPointsMemo).

Thom: The Supreme court ruling on Campaign Finance.

Young Turks: Herman Cain claims Obama isn’t a “real” black man.

Newsy: Minnesota shuts down.

Sam Seder: Spreading Santorum on Egypt.

Stephen: Should the US get sucked into the quagmire that is the US?

Thom with more Good, Bad and Very, Very Ugly.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Isaiah Kalebu was found guilty on all counts. When someone does something as horrible as he did we still give him a fair trial. We still give him an attorney and let him speak in his defense to a dozen members of the public who will decide his fate.

The good in our justice system doesn’t come up as often as the flaws on this blog. We talk a lot about the failures of the drug war. We talk about racial disparities. We talk about the very real problems with the death penalty. We focus on these and other problems instead of the good because the problems can, hopefully, be fixed. Hopefully more attention can help alleviate the problems.

But the system does work sometimes. It does put away a murderer. It showed evidence. It was fair. It gave the defendant his day in court. Hopefully, the surviving victim can find some comfort in the verdict. Hopefully we’re a little safer with Kalebu behind bars.

I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence or if it’s the summer (so I and/or horses are out on city streets more), but I’ve noticed more piles of horse shit in the middle of the road recently. This morning riding to work, it was pretty heavy traffic where there was maybe the largest pile of shit I’ve ever seen on the street. I was afraid if I swerved around it, and a car tried to pass me, that it they would hit me and I’d die, but decided it was worth the risk.

I assume this has to do with those carriage rides. It looks like a fun way to go around the city for a tourist or a date. I imagine the romance is lessened somewhat if there’s a bag of shit in between you and the horse/driver. Still, I don’t want to ride my bike through, or have to navigate it around horse shit. And I don’t really want to drive my car through horse shit either. I feel like when I lived in a more rural place, that made sense, but it shouldn’t be a thing that troubles downtown Seattle.

– Seattle is one of three cities selected for the Better Buildings Challenge.

– Also at CGI America.

– Support exists for higher taxes.

– What a dick.

– Republicans really are the wimpiest wimps in Wimpville (Marco Rubio edition).

– You don’t expense your smoke bombs? (automatically loading video, no politics whatsoever)