Scaredy Cat starring Porky Pig and Slyvester. This Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon was released on December 18, 1948.

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Glenn Reynolds says a lot of silly bullshit, but how’s this for a slice of fried wrong? The Gay Left and Tea Party Right might even want to talk to each other; they may find they’ve got more in common than they realize. Roy wants to know just how that détente is working out lately, [...]

In his 2005 book, “Spanking the Donkey”, Matt Taibbi called Democrats “money junkies”. They keep asking us to trust them by giving them our votes and they promise they’ll fix stuff like health care. On our weekly radio show Saturday, October 31, Matt Taibbi will be our guest and we will ask him what we should do next.

When the government possesses videotape evidence of the torture of subjects under its dominion and control, there is only one reason to destroy the tapes. U.S. District Judge Richard Dorr understood this and dealt with such a case effectively; yet we wait and wait for Special Prosecutor John Durham to do the same in the case of other destroyed torture tapes.

WellPoint is making plenty of money. Why not spend some on some kind of study to crush reform?

If I were Scooter Libby and saw how my former boss had hung him out to dry, I’d be seething right now.

T.R. (Tom) Reid, the former Washington Post foreign correspondent whom I came to know and admire in the early 1990s when we were both stationed in Tokyo (I for the Chicago Tribune), is the ultimate medical tourist. Only, instead of looking for cheaper health care, he went looking for cheaper, more effective and universal health care systems.

As part of the nationwide “Treat, Not Trick” effort yesterday, AMSA medical students Connie Chen and Rebecca Mitchell organized a visit to Anna Eshoo’s office in Palo Alto. Eshoo’s biologics legislation is a huge gift to PhRMA that will keep important new cancer drugs from ever becoming affordable generics. Their passionate advocacy on behalf of [...]

Okay, prepare for the onslaught of weeds. Here’s one that made me vomit, from the very beginning of the Cheney interview report. Vice President Cheney was represented by Terrence O’Donnell and Emmet T. Flood of the law firm of Williams and Connolly… Cheney was formally represented not only by Terry O’Donnell but also by Emmet [...]

Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for Congress in New York’s far north 23rd district to succeed GOP Congressman-turned-Obama-Army-Secretary John McHugh, suspended her campaign today in light of polls suggesting she can’t win. This means Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, the anointed candidate of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, will likely win this seat, held by Republicans since the Civil War.