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Just a theory

Matthew Iglesias (link via Atrios).

So there are all these liberals in the country. Probably if you took a smart liberal who performs well on television and made her the host of a TV show, those liberals would watch that show. Just a theory.

Rachel Maddow really is the best thing to come out of Air America (at least that’s where I’ve gotten to know her) and her elevation to TV talking head status is well-deserved. Maybe someone will “take a chance” on her. But, then, if Obama wins, I’m sure we’ll need more conservatives on TV to create “balance”. Unlike the last 8 years where we’ve needed more conservatives on TV because it’s more representative of who’s in power.

Heads they win, tails we lose.

LIBRULZ BEWARE

AT EXACTLY 1:48 PM ET ON SUNDAY JULY 20TH, JOHN MCCAIN WAS BROUGHT ONLINE AND BECAME “AWARE OF THE INTERNET”.

Sure it doesn’t

Newsweek’s Andrew Romano (link via Atrios):

Using the Internet doesn’t really contribute to your understanding of tech-related public policy.

So true. You can totally pick that up by reading Grit.

As the kids on the Internet say, Andrew, “LOL”.

Range

WilliamMarshall played Dr. Richard Daystrom in the Star Trek episode “The Ultimate Computer”, Blacula in two feature films and then the King of Cartoons in Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.

Hot FaXXX

Hot FaXXX (Uncensored) from SeoulBrother on Vimeo.

Cumming soon to a fax machine near you.

Yay, WA

I’m proud to say both my Senators - even Cantwell who I’ve given a hard time in the past - voted against the FISA bill.

Our next president, unfortunately, did not. Boo.

The goal

Kill ‘em all.

Amazing this guy has gotten as far as he has. Amazing the press keeps covering up for him.

And by “amazing” I mean “sick”.

My brother crushes John Bolton

My brother kicks John Bolton’s trashy ass up and down the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. [UPDATE: the link no longer works as it appears the WSJ only posts one day's worth of letters because the Internet is running out of space or something. Perhaps the letters of its readers are considered "premium content" or something.] It’s the third letter, entitled “A Grain of Salt for Bolton’s View”.

Awesome stuff. As I always say, Clay got the brains, I got the car.

Still, it was a nice car. A Chevy Malibu Classic. So…

I don’t know what Josh got… hmm…

Imagine

Richard Cheese ruins John Lennon’s “Imagine” as only Richard can.

His shtick is an admitted riff on Bill Murray’s lounge singer from Saturday Night Live, but you can also hear a Steve Martin influence (”A-ha-ha!”) and he truly takes Murray’s bit to the next level.

Because, really, what “Imagine” needed was some cowbell and yodeling.

(There’s about a minute and ten seconds of dead air on the end of this for some reason.)

If I were running the campaign…

… (and, really, let’s be glad I’m not) I’d have surrogates out there every day explaining that serving in Vietnam - while an honorable sacrifice - does not automagically make someone qualified to be president.

And then I’d sit back and watch McCain flip out at reporter after reporter until they’re all sitting in the back of the plane, he’s forced to barbecue by himself and the villagers are all whistling to themselves trying to fill the uncomfortable silence caused by the outburst.

(Note: Happily, this means I was at least somewhat wrong below. The question did not disappear into the ether. At least one reporter asked it.)