• Nancy still does not have the votes.
• This will be messy.
• I doubt we hold them to it.
• Tell that to Gen. Petraeus, Mr. Boehner.
• The Shrill One: Taking on China.
• Good luck with that spin, Lindsey.
• It’s always the brown people’s fault.

Clarence Thomas finds a way to keep profitability in the family via ‘impartial justice’

Johnny Carson and Carol Wayne in Art Fern and Tea Time Movies on The Tonight Show.

Let’s hope Kevin Garn’s so-far-remarkable step, as a GOP, of actually resigning his office wakes up our media. So that when the next pervert is revealed (and you know another one will be, perhaps soon) our wise media gatekeepers will say, “Hey, Kevin Garn resigned, shouldn’t you too?”

The lines between public art and private property are getting blurred in Los Angeles.

Apparently the big news of the week has been the Netanyahu government’s major diss of visiting Vice President Joe Biden and Washington’s unusual public critique of this “insult.”  While it’s good to see even this minor pushback to the continuing Israeli theft of Palestinian lands in East Jerusalem, it’s hard to believe this verbal rebuke [...]

Democrats need 25 of a combination of the 17 potential No-Yes flip votes and the 20 potential Yes-No flip votes. So they need 25 out of the remaining uncommitted 37.

Dennis Kucinich is getting slammed by the people he once counted among his friends. Why? Because he is sticking to the one thing progressives supposedly had been fighting for – the public option. Radio host Ian Masters talked with Dennis to get his side of the story.

Back in 2007, at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly (the church’s big annual national gathering), I had the remarkable experience of hearing Amy Goodman moderate a panel of extraordinary gentlemen. One was Daniel Ellsberg. One was Mike Gravel, then a contender for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. And the third was Robert West, a former president of Beacon Press, which is owned by the UUA.

I was in the front row for this spellbinding bit of group storytelling, along with my daughter, then not yet quite 17. “This is what heroes look like,” I told her. “Take a good look — because this is what your faith and your family will expect of her on the day that history knocks on your door and insists that you take a stand.”

Let me get this straight. The Senate will pass a public option if the House will. And the House will, because it already did. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t allow it. So the mortal enemy of public-option backers is . . . Dennis Kucinich.