LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Award-winning actor and activist Ron Silver, who was Emmy-nominated for his role on the hit U.S. television drama "The West Wing," died on Sunday of cancer. He was 62.
Bruno Gianelli’s Last Campaign
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Morning Awesome
Daft Punk - "Aerodynamic" From Discovery Animation from the album-length Daft Punk music video Interstella 5555 Produced by the great Leiji Matsumoto
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday night blogotubing in America. (I enjoyed my light blogging day. Back in full force on Monday.)
Left Wing Conspiracy
Ben Smith writes a story about a morning conference call and O'Reilly turns it into Watergate. You know what this is? O'Reilly and Rove preferred it when the Democrats were scattered and disorganized...
Malkin vs. Meghan McCain
Malkin appears to be choosing which stand-up comics Meghan McCain is allowed to like. Doesn't Malkin know that if you choose your comedy based upon ideology, you'll only be allowed to like Larry the...
Surrounded by Glenn Beck
As we know, Glenn Beck is rallying his fellow Doom Bunker paranoiacs to figuratively "surround us." Thers observes: You know, I totally get why yoking the GOP to Limbaugh makes sense, politically...
Morning Awesome
U2 - "Electrical Storm" From The Best of 1990–2000 (Source: Chez)
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
Disconnected from Reality
Sea levels are rising faster than scientists expected. Yet 40 percent of Americans (and rising) believe the climate crisis is exaggerated. We're a smart people!
Shep Smith is… Sarcasmo!
There's some clear anger under that mockery. Smith considers himself a reasonably even-handed news anchor there -- I can't imagine he's too thrilled by the prospect of promoting Beck who is a parody...
Very Serious Question
Remember when people were saying that liberal bloggers and comedians wouldn't have anything to talk about if Barack Obama won the election?
Glenn Beck’s Nine Principles
Yes, Beck has principles. But I thought there was only one: "Say deliberately crazy things and mug to the camera with doughy punch-me face." Seriously, check them out then tell me if they sound a...
Red Scaring
It continues, but not exactly where you think. The Media Matters Red Scare Index for Friday, March 13: MSNBC Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 2 Communism, Communist, Communistic: 2 Marxism/Marxist:...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Undersea Kingdom" (Part 2 of 2, continued from last week)
Quote of the Week
"You (Jim Cramer) now have become the face of this, and that is incredibly unfortunate. Because you’re not the face of it, you shouldn’t be the face of it. You were the person that was, uh, I-don’t...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever else you're doing. Tonight! Where's the Coward Rick Santelli?
Quote of the Day
"The cynical drag queen posing as a fascist isn't selling as many books as she once was." —Andrew Sullivan on Ann Coulter's poor book sales
Rand on Abortion
From Rand's "Of Living Death," published in The Objectivist newsletter, 1968: An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights...
The Tea Act of 1773
It's worth mentioning this again. The British law that eventually precipitated the Boston Tea Party was the Tea Act of 1773. One of the many inconsistencies of the wingnut tea bagging revolution is...
Super Stupid
This Pajamas Media video about "going Galt" is remarkably silly (jump to the halfway mark to be totally amazed by stupidity). Do these wingnuts realize the full scope of what Ayn Rand was all about...