Because it’s Friday afternoon–and because Gary Busey is never not funny, in a crazed sort of way.
After reading this ridiculous Politico article about Obama’s drinking habits (Does the President drink too much? Some callers to a Louisiana sports radio show think so!), I started looking for references to Jimmy Carter and alcohol, …
Paul Slansky does it again. What was your favorite indexable moment of the week?
It isn’t over in Iran. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani spoke at Friday prayers today and while he didn’t condemn the results of the election, he certainly didn’t wave the white flag either:
“Doubt has been created,” Mr. Rafsanjani said. “There are two currents. One doesn’t have any doubt and is moving ahead with their job. And
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For the past few years, I’ve been pushing Senator Ron Wyden’s Free Choice Act as the best way to reform the health care system. Ezra Klein, now of the Washington Post and still no relation of mine (except friend), feels the same way and explains the bill here. This is a solution that promises universal coverage, has been scored …
A final sketch drawn from dispatches from TIME’s Sophia Yan:
Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, pretty much summed up the week’s confirmation hearings Thursday morning when he said the he could not envision filibustering Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, nor any of his …
A story not to miss today, by my former colleague Mark Benjamin at Salon, the first in a series on the national cemetery. A small sampling:
[I]n a relatively remote area of the cemetery, where 600 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan are laid to rest, personal mementos placed on graves are left out to rot in the rain for days,
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The first day started off okay. After that, things went downhill. And a couple of times (ahem, Ricky Ricardo?) crossed the line. That’s the impression I came away with after speaking to Latino groups about Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. Here’s a webstory on the perils this presents to the G.O.P.
A week after visiting Russia, I am still haunted by the sort of subdermal creepiness of the place. I’m not sure what it was exactly–the Russian security man who rode in our press van to spy on our conversations, the total disinterest people on the street showed for the Presidential motorcade, the educated assumption of eavesdropping in …
Via Andrew’s blog. Allahu Akhbar!
A dispatch from TIME’s Sophia Yan who sat in for us at today’s hearings:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor relaxed a bit in the hot seat in her third day of confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court.
Drudge is going purple-apoplectic about the looming Nationalization or perhaps Government Takeover of health care and all the–red alarm bell here–taxes and–another alarm bell–public options that will surely destroy free enterprise–no, freedom itself!–as we know it…in other words, he and his Republican friends are rabid crazy …
The next big event in the saga of the Green Revolution and the Purloined Election will occur on Friday when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers the sermon at Friday Prayers. Rafsanjani is, among other things, the most prominent Mousavi supporter roaming the Iranian landscape at present, still chair of the Expediency Council and the …
My colleague Jim Poniewozik has a post up on his blog about a topic that has gotten a fair amount of discussion in the South Carolina media, as well as the blogosphere. In response to a request by The State newspaper under the Freedom of Information act, the Governor’s office has released a trove of emails, including the lobbying that …