Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks — Milk Shakin’ Mama featuring Lickettes Maryann Price and Naomi Eisenberg, on The Flip Wilson Show, September 27, 1972.

America loves foibles and forgiveness. Stumble, say you’re sorry, and you’re back on top. Only it’s just not gonna work for Arnold Schwarzenegger who may have more than one love child by more than one staff member, reports Gawker. And at least one of them is named after a character the actor-governor played.

Newt on the other hand is a cheery foreshadowing of what lies ahead as the GOP race heats up, promising lots of slinging, screaming and scheming.

Member funding gives FDL the freedom to say and do what we believe instead of what we’re told.

Bipartisan fetishists everywhere poured a little out, after Sen. Tom Coburn quit the Gang of Six deficit reduction talks. The impasse, according to Coburn, came over entitlement cuts.

As if we already didn’t know the media is full of lies and stupidity, two new examples have surfaced in recent days, with former administration officials and their media mouthpieces vying for who can pronounce the most incredible lies about the torture policies of the U.S. government.

This is yet another of the mass demonstrations organized by The New Bottom Line, one of several ad hoc coalitions protesting the financial sector and the ongoing foreclosure crisis. Hundreds protested two weeks ago at the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting, and on May 12 thousands occupied Lower Manhattan with a rally.

You can view Social Security accounting two ways: First, you can view it as a separate fund, in which case the Trust Fund surplus of $2.5 trillion is very relevant. Or you can view the issue from the perspective of the entire budget, and ask, “how much of the total is paid for by total incoming revenues?” But what you can’t do is mix the two; you can’t honestly switch between the two accounting perspectives just to make a political point about Social Security.

FDL is where I can find and see something resembling the journalism and the action I remember from my formative years, and it thrills and humbles me to have a small part in it. I hope you agree with me, and find it in your heart to support FDL. There is nothing else like it today.

Let me save you the trouble of turning on C-SPAN2 and missing the Blue Plate special at the Olympia Diner. The motion will fail on a party-line vote. Even Senate Republicans who previously expressed a willingness to end oil subsidies will stick with Mitch McConnell and Team R on this one.

Russ Feingold may be well-positioned to return to the US Senate if he chooses, now that Herb Kohl has retired. A normal politician in that position would not make waves with any party leaders, or take up principled causes where both parties have failed. Feingold is not that normal politician. The Hill reports that he publicly shamed several Democrats in an email to supporters of his new organization, Progressives United. But they don’t make clear what the fuss is about.