If you were hoping that the Democrats in the Senate would do something about the Republicans’ unprecedented abuse of the filibuster, you can forget it.

I think we ought to have someone in there who doesn’t spend most of their time devising ways for the big banks to stay alive, and who may look over at the regular person and decide that he or she needs a shot when going up against all that power and privilege. Warren embodies this different worldview, and will deliver on her promises. And that’s why she must be appointed.

Yeah. This is more shit about McMegan of The Atlantic, Our Lady of the Broken TI-84.

So, in addition to giving Tony “I want my life back” Hayward his life back, the BP Board of Directors this week reported a $17,000,000,000 loss for the quarter and announced that they would set aside $32,000,000,000 to pay claims in their Gulf of Mexico fiasco.

Some House Democrats have tried to use John Boehner’s comments about raising the retirement age against Republicans in the fall elections, but that becomes impossible to do when Steny Hoyer keeps going out and undermining the effort by mimicking Boehner.

Apparently, the coordinates given in this video are from a “rig [that] was toppled by Hurricane Ivan some 6 years ago. It still leaks today enough to create a plume 10 miles long.” Along with several reports of leaks on the ocean floor from the same basin into which BP was tapping in the blown out rig in April, we need to ask “How many drill holes leak?”

Can we kill the filibuster yet?

It’s hard to really find the limits of failure arising out of the Iraq invasion and occupation.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band – Billie Jean at Rockpalast 1/12/04.

Nuclear weapons suck. And so with that in mind, there’s a big push towards nuclear disarmament featuring major bands and a new film.