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The Right Wing Conspiracy that brought about the current Shutdown Pile of Shit.
No, this is not what Mt. Rushmore looks like right now.
Why Democrats are holding together: Â Red State Democrats don’t feel they’re in danger of losing an “optics” battle against Boehner.
one call to end the damned shutdown charade.  Boehner need not be afraid. Contra the conventional wisdom, I maintain that no one in leadership will lose his job.
Pat Buchanan’s world of make believe — Obama / Reid!
Trucker Rally to shut down the Washington Beltway and… stuff. Â Like the old “Hardhat Riot“, only less sensical.
Wyoming Senate Race update: Ad opposing Elizabeth Cheney for — er– MSNBC and gay marriage?
Glenn Greenwald on the BBC with a stupid interviewer.
The Comics Page at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th was a pretty danged fun page.
More scientific studies examining partisan reactions to that “bottom half of the Internet“.
Ralph Nader is fighting Washington DC’s library development. Â (A graph of things Nader opposed this summer.)