Awesome. “”You all are the house, you’re the bookie,” she said. Clients “are booking their bets with you. I don’t know why we need to dress it up. It’s a bet.”

If Lindsey Graham has a fit, you must submit.

Sue Foley — Absolution.

Cast your vote here Tonight is the second round of semi-final voting for FDL’s “Name Our Pot Campaign” contest.  We had a lot of fun last week coming up with slogans in the comments, and in the fine FDL tradition, there were over 800.  The third round of semifinal voting will start tomorrow night, and [...]

Yes, that’s right, the Florida GOP actually produced an ad – a really lame, crappy ad – criticizing a Democrat for being too gun-happy, presenting unhinged footage of Rambo and Private Pyle as excerpts from “CFO Alex Sink’s Official Fraud Investigation Training Video,” interspersed with jaunty music and a random clip of Sink saying “You’re darn right!” Ha ha, these kids today and their hilarious interweb TV bacteria!

The UN has closed its mission in Kandahar, citing a heightened security risk ahead of the US offensive there. Does that mean Kandahar today is as risky as Baghdad in the summer of 2003?

Interview with Dale Sky Clare, Executive Chancellor of Oaksterdam University and Spokesperson for Control and Tax Cannabis 2010.

Congress is scrambling to get more information about how to deal with the credit rating agencies in Wall Street reform, but they haven’t come up with many answers yet.

Sen. Ted Kaufman asked David Viniar what Goldman Sach’s obligations were to its clients, and whether they should  have stopped selling mortgage-backed CDO’s to them when Goldman itself was shorting them.  Viniar didn’t see any apparent conflict of interest.

BP has a recent history of blowing off the procedures and training that are one key to emergency management in this industry.