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Goofy — All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.

To which, and I cannot stress this enough, if it’s a choice between “slavery” and “having to look at Mitch McConnell’s shriveled butt-cheeks,” I for one am signing up for Option A.

Every week our team busts hump and gathers video for use in our posts. But an awful lot of video ends up on the cutting room floor because news and events overtake us. Here’s a second chance for a selection of video we enjoyed and wanted to use, but simply couldn’t squeeze into our front page line up.

Max Baucus’ then State Director and now girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, helped arrange Baucus’ separation from his then-wife in 2007.

Have you ever wondered why corporations like Exxon Mobil have free speech “rights” under the Constitution when corporations can’t “speak,” and when the Constitution was written to protect “We the People” and never mentions “corporations”? Do you worry that maybe, just maybe, the Supreme Court is putting the interests of corporate America over the rights of hard-working Americans?

Please join these powerful women this weekend to help defeat the Stupak amendment.

If “Going Rogue – An American Life” by Sarah Palin is the toxic fluff that promises to fill conservative Christmas stockings across the nation this book-buying season, then “Going Rouge – An American Nightmare” is the antidote.

Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, Senior Editors at The Nation have cast the net wide and gathered a collection of existing essays and new material on Alaska’s most infamous ex-governor. The anthology is published by O/R Books, a nascent publishing venture that seeks to “embrace progressive change in politics, culture, and the way [they] do business.”

Masquerading as pro-business has been the tactic used by the criminal corporate interests that controlled Texas, then the U.S., over far too many years. Voluntary compliance was its weapon of mass pollution.

Slinkerwink of FDL Action and DailyKos is hosting a phone bank in Austin this afternoon to stand up for choice in the health care bill. She’s a fellow Austinite, so I paid her a visit. Says Slink: I’m running this phonebanking event because I want to make sure that the Stupak language isn’t in the [...]