While it’s a pretty bad year in the Gulf of Mexico already, due to the Horizon well blowout, this year it seems the Dead Zone is worse than ever, too. Being a great neighbor doesn’t seem to be a characteristic of the U.S. in so many ways, so this one should come as no surprise.

I know. It almost never pays to read one of MoDo’s columns seriously. But enough good lefties are pointing to this one approvingly, I thought I’d do them the favor of pointing out how typically stupid it is.

Depending upon their willingness to demonstrate a straight-up, full on bigotry or a kinder and gentler sort of discrimination, opponents of the Cordoba House project will tell you it’s about Islamists, Muslims, or the victims of 9/11. Their opponents counter that it’s about freedom of religion, the constitutional guarantees of liberty and basic human values of tolerance and diversity.

Jane will be on CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning, 11am ET. The rest of the Sunday lineups are below, tune in for the chatter on the economy, the 2010 elections, Afghanistan and more.

Super Lulu starring Little Lulu. This Famous Studios cartoon was released on November 21, 1947.

Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seatback in front of ya, and no spitballs aimed at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

Splitting the baby here, Maureen thinks Bobby Gibbs needs to be promoted, not fired, since he’s always wanted to be a counselor to the president, bonding as they did during the campaign over sports and missing their families.

Othon Friesz brings a modern twist to the ancient story of Adam and Eve.

Now that Russia has been privatized, real estate developers want to put a housing development on the greatest seed and plant bank that the world has never heard of.

Pat Dollard, the former hollywood agent/douchebag who made a career move to self-promoting douchebag, took to the twittertubes last night and, in a rambling twitterlanche (which basically casts aside the whole pithy 140 character twitter bon mot concept because rebels and outlaws refuse to play by your rules) where he grabbed his big manly balls and taunted New Yorkers, telling them that they are big fucking pussyboy scaredy-cat homos if they don’t oppose the Ground Zero Caliphate Community Center (Singles Night Square Dancing every Wednesday 7PM. Please see sign-up sheet), because, not in my house, man, NOT IN MY FUCKING HOUSE!

Psychologists for an Ethical APA have put out a press release charging the American Psychological Association with complicity in the supporting military and CIA psychologists in the development and implementation of the U.S. torture program. While the APA has released a letter ostensibly in support of a licensing complaint against CIA contractor-interrogator-torturer James Mitchell, a look at the letter itself and the context surrounding it presents a different story.