David Wittman’s (aka DJ Dave) popular video, “Whole Foods Parking Lot,” is a hilarious send-up of some of the apparent moral contradictions of participants in today’s postmodern counter-culture. It’s a counter-culture only in the sense that it has more to do with the checkout counter than it does any challenge to the culture at large. Hell, it is the culture at large.

The president of GLAAD (essentially, the organization’s executive director) has resigned in the wake of the scandal about letters that went to the FCC over his signature, drafted by donor AT&T, that Barrios apparently neither read nor understood. which he then subsequently disavowed.

Did you hear the one about the Ex Democratic Party Chairman and the peace activist walking into the coffee shop? That was Tim Kaine and me on Saturday. He’s the former governor of Virginia, former DNC Chair, and current candidate for the US Senate. He arrived nearly an hour late for his event here in [...]

Happy Father’s Day, guys. Enjoy the day.

I’m not noticing any mention of Netroots Nation, let alone Dan Pfeiffer at Netroots Nation. I suppose there will be coverage of AARP’s social security fiasco, although it isn’t specifically mentioned – something for the rountables perhaps. But other expected discussions are on tap: Libya and the Middle East, the debt ceiling and jobs, for starts.

Operation Rabbit starring Bugs Bunny and Wile E Coyote. This Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. Looney Tunes cartoon was released on January 19, 1952.

Newt’s eyeballs are retreating into his head at precisely the same rate as his wife’s are extruding from hers. What does this mean? Nothing good…

The establishment parties, Democrats or Republicans, will not save us. The bought-and-paid-for ‘progressives’ (gathered now at Netroots Nation to ‘reluctantly’ cheer on the Democrats) and Tea Partiers, both in the tank for one or the other of the financier-owned parties, will not save us.

The hardest thing I had to do over the past twenty-four hours was keep my lips zipped about this, once I’d got the advance word from a friend of a friend.

Welcome to the open road, sisters in Saudi Arabia. There, in a celebration of freedom that has become regular Friday fare in the Middle East and North Africa, women took the wheel and drove themselves about. While no actual law constrains them, women are under a fatwa against taking off driving a car – and are subject to being detained when they do.

The honor for closing speaker tonight goes to progressive favorite Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN). His remarks will be preceded by words from Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), and State Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Cenk Uygur hosts. With music from Outernationals and Jill Sobule.