Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker — To All The Friends I’ve Un’ed Before — for National UnFriend Day, from Jimmy Kimmel Live.

So a 67-year-old man with bipolar disorder shot his TV in the face with a shotgun because he disliked the performance of a contestant on a stupid reality show competition. This is Big National News because the contestant in question was Bristol Palin, a young woman idolized alike by the Christian Right and Supermarket Tabloids [...]

Whenever there is a complicated or confusing issue, you can count on the Taiwanese animators at NMA.tv to explain it in a precise and easy to understand manner.

So here’s a major breakthrough in the foreclosure crisis and in particular the failed HAMP program. It doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen, but it means a significant chunk of the majority caucus in the Senate wants a radical overhaul of HAMP.

The CBO report makes it clear that unemployment insurance is not about a bunch of poor people suckling at the federal teat. It’s about keeping families from slipping into poverty.

Nevertheless, the GOP will continue to mobilize classist and racist narratives to make sure this useful benefit is not extended.

This is the lifeline of the foreclosure fraud crisis: funding of mediation programs and legal services attorneys. Lawyers need to be in the field so borrowers have a fighting chance at due process, to protect themselves from predatory servicers and prevent illegal foreclosures. Without more funding, the efforts at accountability may just wither. News organizations are doing a great job but the lawyers need to be funded.

The jury in Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani’s trial for his role in the 1998 embassy bombings has found him guilty of conspiracy, but not the charges of terrorism he was accused of. With the one count, however, he may still face a life sentence.

The current right-wing movement against the Fed plays against a backdrop of fake class resentment and goldbuggery. There are significant and proper reasons to criticize the Fed – for one, easing doesn’t seem to be working – but the inflation argument is seriously off the mark, and the broader push to eliminate the Fed’s maximum employment mandate is just a recipe for favoring the rich at all times, at all costs.

You need to start saving to protect your retirement from the Catfood Commission.

Over the past couple weeks, US officials have clearly moved the goalposts away from a July 2011 “transition point” in Afghanistan and toward a 2014 date which Hamid Karzai claims will give Afghan security forces time to provide for their own security in the country. But even before that has been absorbed, NATO officials are moving the goalposts yet again, pushing 2014 back to 2015 and possibly beyond that.