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SURELY THERE ARE SOME GENITALS WE CAN BLAME FOR ALL THIS Why are we miserable? Why do we despair? Is it the endless grinding recession? ...

PAY ATTENTION TO ME PRETENDING TO BE UPSET THAT YOU PAID ATTENTION TO ME THE LAST TIME I TRIED TO GET YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO ME! Oh, good...

EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF DISINFORMATION IS, APPARENTLY, NO VICE Weep for your country, folks: WSJ/NBC News Poll: Tea Party Tops Democrat...

This is what I'm talking about: MSNBC paired Howard Dean with Mary Landrieu on a health care segment last night on Hardball , which ha...

A MILLION HARDCOVERS SOLD, BUT SHE CAN ONLY AFFORD ONE HAT Yeah, times are tough and we're all scrimping on pennies -- that must be the...

COMPARE AND (MOSTLY) CONTRAST Dana Milbank in The Washington Post : Tea parties -- they aren't just for conservatives anymore. Liberal...

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON Talking Points Memo: In Delaying Health Care GOP Wants To Force August Repeat Over Holiday Break August was ba...

THEY'VE GOT THE GUNS BUT WE'VE GOT THE ... WELL, I GUESS WE'RE ALSO A TAD SHORT ON THE NUMBERS, AREN'T WE? I think John Nef...

The Greatest Ethnography of American Guyness as Performance of All Time .** Well, maybe not. But I saw it yesterday for the first time and ...

Negotiation 101. Its too late to say this, but it bears repeating: we are where we are on Health Care Reform because the White House doesn...

OH, TEABAGGERS, WHERE'S YOUR POLITICAL PURITY NOW? CNN: Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, a former Democrat who sits with Democratic cauc...

Teachable Moment. In theory I agree with Howard Dean that the bill should be killed. That's not because I loved the "Public Optio...

TIME, HUNTING WHERE THE DUCKS ARE Ben Bernanke is Time 's Person of the Year. I haven't read the cover story, but I don't th...

THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A QUO EVEN WITHOUT THE QUID From Charles Gasparino's New York Post story about President Obama's meeting wit...

You Can't Always Get What You Want -- No, Really. Obama has just come out and, according to TPM, made one of the most enraging statemen...

WHAT ARIANNA SAID Can this presidency be saved? Arianna Huffington has it exactly right: If the Obama White House is going to change cours...

Sew His Foreskin Back. That's pretty much all I have to say on the question of "Joe Lieberman--Evil or Stupid?" Whichever, he...

WHEN THE GOING GETS DEMAGOGIC, THE DEMAGOGUES TURN PRO ha you think it's funny / Turning rebellion into money -- The Clash Politico ...

LIEBERMAN: SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THERE'S NO DOWNSIDE TO BEING STUPID Jonathan Chait, writing for The New Republic : ... I ... think li...

SEEKING A RETURN TO DUMBOCRACY I noticed something familiar in a quote from today's New York Times article about John McCain. The sp...