That is the great 1990s phrase made famous on Seinfeld when all the major characters spent an episode denying that George and Jerry were Gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” is the phrase missing from the White House’s outrage at CBS and Ben Domenech for claiming potential SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan was openly gay, or closeted, or something.

A month ago, I wrote a post noting that CIA had never finished its Memos for the Record of several key Congressional briefings. But as I’ve been reviewing old Vaughn Indices to get a better sense of what we received yesterday, I’ve seen some details that raise new questions about CIA’s use of Congressional briefings.

Boxer exhorted the delegates to support her campaign, saying “I won’t turn my back on you. The lines are drawn. We are in a real fight for the direction of our state and our nation…

Our love affair with our cars has also been fueled by the devious actions of a few major corporations. The once ubiquitous electric streetcar was driven into the ground by colloboration of Big Oil and Big Auto. It wasn’t a fair fight.

Good Morning everyone! I have to thank res ipsa loquitur at Rising Hegemon for bring back this video classic on Goldman Sachs.

Talking Heads today talk about tea parties, financial reforms, elections and cetera.

Double Or Mutton starring Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. This Warner Bros/Looney Toons cartoon was released on July 23, 1955.

In some of the more polite precincts of the Internet, which I typically avoid, there has been quite the debate raging over whether or not 21st-century conservatism is marked by “epistemic closure,” meaning essentially that conservatives have fallen so deeply into the Fox News Matrix that they’ve lost the capacity to perceive consensus reality. To [...]

Thursday, honoring the mandatory Nancy Pelosi part of ObamaCare’s sweeping reorganization of the nation’s healthcare system, the President commanded all Americans to designate A Gay who will visit them when they are admitted to the hospital, for purposes of selecting floral arrangements and overruling everyone’s family’s decisions about care.

Billionaire investment banker Peter Peterson is continuing his decades long quest to gut Social Security and Medicare. On April 28th he is sponsoring a “fiscal responsibility summit” featuring Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and others responsible for wrecking the economy. We are organizing a virtual summit on fiscal and economic responsibility in response.

Clearly this isn’t California; there are snow flurries falling outside as Michigan Democratic Party delegates pick their candidates for the state attorney general and secretary of state races.