A Little Late

But the Al Franken Decade begins...

Governor of South Carolina

For a day anyway...

I was pretty sure something was up when Sanford's wife said she didn't know where her husband was, but perhaps he needed time away from his kids. That's a pretty nasty thing for the wife of a Governor with Presidential aspirations to tell a reporter about her husband.

And then a couple days later she said she still hadn't heard from him, but she didn't have time to talk because she was too busy being a mom. Another dig. Clearly all was not well in Sanford land.

Now, if the Sanford's have been trying to work this out over the last several months, why did he go to Argentina? Is visiting your mistress really the way to re-establish trust in a marriage which is trying recover from an infidelity?

Colbert Returns with Ridiculous Toupee!

Who does he think he's fooling?

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Only Because It's So Awesome...

Deep Thought:

Is Tripp Palin, borne of a would be virgin, the Second Coming?

Is This An Episode of South Park?

Michael Reagan on the Right, via TPM:

"It's interesting that people say the right has taken over the Republican Party -- but no one can say what we've done. We've been closeted for the last eight years; it's time for the right to come out of the closet."

Who does Michael Reagan think the right are? Tom Cruise?

Michael Steele Explains His Gaffes...

MMM Pie...

Happy PI day!

Andrew Card and Freedom.

Andrew Card has a problem with Obama:

I found that Ronald Reagan and both President Bushes treated the Oval Office with tremendous respect. They treated the Office of the Presidency with tremendous respect. And some of that respect was reflected in how they expected people to behave, how they expected them to dress when they walked into the symbol of freedom for the world, the Oval Office.

Got that? President Obama should not be free to take his jacket off in the "symbol of freedom for the world." Now that's just stupid. And then there's the hypocrisy exposed here by The Huffington Post (scroll down for slide show).

Gotta Love That Republican Can't Do Spirit

John Boehner style: “Government can’t solve this problem,”

It's from the I Won story at Politco

President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.

Deep Thoughts

If you think about it, Tiger Woods is the Barack Obama of golf...

Is Agnosticism Possible?

Andrew links to this post:

This isn't just about semantics. Theism-Agnosticism-Atheism are not 3 points on the same line.

Theism is a belief in god (or gods) and atheism is to be without that belief. You either believe in god or you don't. There is no other position. It's not the same question as: does god exist. The question is do you believe god exists.

You can believe in god without knowing god exists. It's called a leap of faith. You can not know if god exists and not make that leap.

Consider alien abductions. I can't say i know they don't happen, so technically i'm agnostic on the subject. But i don't believe they're happening, so i'm also an atheist on the subject.

And there are those who don't know that alien abductions happen (again agnostic) but believe they do: theism.

This is Great!

From Felix Salmon via Ezra:

My first appearance on CNBC happened to coincide with the single most important event of the century: Bernie Madoff getting out of a car. So there wasn't much time to talk about anything substantive, although I did try to chide the network gently for being such a central part of the Madoff circus. Yes, the Madoff scandal is a big story, but a bail hearing? Not so much.

Fun fact: the newsroom erupted in spontaneous applause when Madoff appeared -- not for Madoff, but rather because Fox Business happened to be on a commercial break at the time, so CNBC had the live coverage to itself. Or something. Many congratulations to them, in any case.

Wrong Headline?

Ezra's post is titled: OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO DELIVER INVOCATION AT OPENING INAUGURAL SERVICE.

Shouldn't it be: OPENLY GAY BISHOP GOING TO HELL!