I had the distinct pleasure of joining a group of over a hundred members of the United Church of Gainesville (home of the “If they can burn it we can read it” campaign in response to the planned Quran burning) who donned blue shirts reading “Gay and Straight Together” to march down University Avenue to the Bo Diddley Community Plaza as part of Pride Parade 2010. It was a spectacular day and the turnout was tremendous.

Last week, a Dallas Teabagger running for Congress named Stephen Broden said that we just might have to resort to armed sedition to deal with this Obama guy. And surprise! — he pals around with the Head Teabagger himself, Glenn Beck.

Taxing the rich will innoculate us against Japanification, and will lower our national debt while stimulating the economy.

Yet another Republican candidate has threatened the violent overthrow of the government should he not get his way in the election.  Here’s the Dallas Morning News reporting on Dallas congressional candidate Stephen Broden: If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right [...]

Welcome to the new MyFDL. Our amazing tech crew has worked tirelessly for months to build social networking features into the site, and there is a lot of great new stuff.

Marcy’s hypothesis about Fannie and Freddie’s deal with the title insurance industry appears to be coming to fruition, but let’s look at what this means in practice. The title insurance industry wants servicers – mostly divisions of the big banks – to indemnify them if any problems arise in post-foreclosure sales. That’s basically the entire deal.

Wake up sleepyheads. Many thanks to watertiger for the too cute video. She and digby will be on Virtually Speaking today. CNN is hosting a debate with the big three candidates for Senator. Ted Rall will be here for Book Salon with his American Manifesto. Newsmakers has a conversation with Phil Angelides, chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. And there are a lot of other talking heads babbling about the dial.

Hair-Raising Hare starring Bugs Bunny. This Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon was released on May 25, 1946.

I know I’ve been spending lots of time lately making fun of New York’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, Carl Paladino. And this attention may seem disproportionate to the National Impact of the Empire State’s Gubernatorial Race. Or it may seem like I’m just taking this personally because I’m from New York. Or it may just appear [...]

From the WaPo, 11/2/1991: “Jo Ellen Murphy, art director of the Weekend section, said that ‘[Juan Williams] was obsessed with my sex life and that’s all he wanted to talk to me about . . . . I raised my voice at him and said, “Just don’t talk to me again.” ‘ ”