The Baseline Scenario: Bankster loving Dems sneak loophole language into Barney Frank's financial regulation bill

The Progressive Puppy: Anti-Gay Music: Pepsi's "mistake," Grammy's deadly homophobia

The KC Blue Blog: In a major turn of events, a newly released police report states that the woman was not only allegedly beaten by Republican Speaker turned powerful consultant Rod Jetton, but was allegedly forced against her will, drugged, tied with a belt and raped.

AlterNet: Meet the billionaire brothers funding the Right-Wing war on Obama

The Sideshow: Assorted Stuff

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: How a Crock of Sh*t gets to your breakfast table...Why journalist Gary Webb died...New rightie media mogul...Gretchen Carlson dumbs down...Bumper sticker analysis...Pro-War corporate media...Worse than useless...They even wanted Dobbs...Dana Milbank still an assh*le... I rest my case...It's how they roll...The further adventures of Peggy Noonan

Calculated Risk: Fed Chairmen never learn. Meanwhile, in the UK the gubmint is trying to rein in the bankers...

Little Green Footballs: Has seen the light!

Pulp Friction: America has become one big, crappy reality show

Pressing Issues: No terrorist angle, not news

Legal Schnauzer: A "Deep Throat" emerges in the Mike Connell plane crash

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Journalism 2009...Dana Milbank is an ass...Politico reports wingnut talking points as news...Cato rips Fox...Politico deep in the tank..."Bold Strategy"...Moonie Times to lay off 40% of 'staff'...WH Mainstream hacks object to bloggers...Watching America...Steyn/Beck's Fakes of Wrath...Celebrity Nonsense...Don't think, kill!...Ask This

ShortsandPants: Quote of the Day. Blue Gal explains how these lying hypocrites can make such outlandish claims with a straight face.

Invictus: Purge at the White House on torture and detainee policies?

Capital Eye: Watchdog groups detail political contributions in ways never before documented

Kevin Drum: The New Obstruction

Facing South: Health Bill Hypocrisy? *Republicans* led the push for Louisiana funding that wound up in the Senate bill

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Yoo still here?....'Beat Reporters'...Another reason TIME sux...More sources of B.S. gone...Nationalist narcissism...Murdoch & Microsoft....Pathological-Liar...The news about the internet...A new horizon for the news...Comedy Gold...Were these accidents?...NYT's notion of "pragmatism"...Feckless media...STFU... Modern Media...Less talk, more war...CNN will keep his seat warm...More Fox/wingnut bullsh*t...Inside the Dean Dome

TBogg: The beatings will continue until morale improves

skippy the bush kangaroo: How Goldman Sachs bet on America failing

The Bobblespeak Translations: Face the Nation with Joe Lieberman

field negro: Pastor, please don't shoot, you might hit the usher

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: California AG Brown illegally taped reporters...Not a news organization...Jon Stewart breaks it down...Inside Iraq...Media failure compounds the financial failure...NPR gets it wrong...Sometimes, opinion kills...Moonie Times reaches out to Tea Partiers...Shielding reporters and bloggers...Short on facts...Phony AP fact check...Fred Hiatt's strange argument...Early Glenn Beck footage located...Budding journos

Politics in the Zeros: Populist Party Platform, 1892 (It could have been written for today)

Liberal Values: Nuclear engineer at Cern Lab arrested for alleged ties to al Qaeda

Alas, a blog: Every time a racist criticizes the president, someone cries, "racism."

Seeing the Forest: Modern Governing

AfterDowningStreet: Rep. Obey joins us idiot liberals

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: NYT out of ideas...Coffee talk...The Corner in a corner...Conservative gullibility...Bad faith and sloth...Politico Fail...Beachwood Reporter...Anatomy of a column...WaPo partisan goldmine...World Nut Daily...

The Seminal: Demint's Sedition: Flying off to fight against the U.S.

unbossed: Beef processors' dirty secrets exposed

Steve Benen: Marine General Jones pushes back against McCain

market folly: The next financial mania

The Cunning Realist: Get a life

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Good journalism...Change?...Beck boycott goes international...Peep Creep Arrested...Branch tells the truth...Letterman, Polanski, Palin and Beck...The Sure Thing...Are search engines killing newspapers?...Ratwang-Dango...Journamalism...Conventional wisdom...Iraq Today...How can these two things both be true?...Iran fail...Is Moonie Times a real newspaper?...For-profit newspapers lose money accidentally...George Will still fulla sh*t..

The Progressive Puppy: Where will right-wing anger lead?

Capital Eye: Health Care tools to help you follow the money

2 Political Junkies: Your body is a battleground

Mother Jones: Chart of the Day

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Babbling Brooks...Sensible centrism...Michael Savage has to apologize!...D.C. Conventional Wisdom...Say any-damn-thing...Unarmed, this time...Nevermind public opinion...Rock bottom...Ink shortage...Our Miss Brooks...Douthanasia...Schizoid in Barbieland...Graphic evidence...Terrified Dems & Media...