Maddow: Curing What Ailes Us
With her honesty, intelligence, humor and professionalism, my "next decade" prediction is that Maddow will rise to the absolute top rung of television news.
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Oh Come Let Us Adore Him
How dare anyone mock man's God-given right to buy name recognition and sway elections with his millions and billions.
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BREAKING: LIEBERMAN HAS GLASS OF WATER!!! (Stay Tuned for updates)
Narcissist Joe Lieberman has moved to center stage in the dramatic Senate health care countdown.
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Burn, Baby, Burn
The implication of this lovely refinery photo is that burning oil, and consumption in general, is simply the American way.
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Lieberman: Palin’s Alter
Yeah, I do see Lieberman as akin to Palin, both wired to be as attention-seeking, dramatic and subversive as possible.
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Bankers to Obama: Talk to the Hand
The question, Mr. President, is how do you expect to call these bankers onto the carpet when you can't even get them on the carpet?
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Cover Shot for the Surge Scrapbook
On first pass, the photo speaks to American gains in the battle for hearts and minds. Looking further, though, the enthusiasm of the locals could as much be that drill they go through when the Westerners hit the hamlet.
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The Particular Darkness of Our Great Recession
With Larry Summers schmoozing the unemployment numbers, and with the administration jawboning the banks to somehow self-police themselves while otherwise enabling them to maintain business as usual, the fallout continues desperately, disasterously and mostly under-the-radar.
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Home Field Advantage
Defense Secretary Gates -- finally home from a dismal "surge kick-off trip" to Afghanistan and Iraq -- made up for it yesterday with a huge testosterone blast, conducting the coin toss at the annual Army-Navy game.
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The Sanford Trainwreck: All The Dish That Fits to Print, Post, Blog, Whatever…
If the divorce story has political relevance to Mark Sanford's character, the published photos -- of he and his wife going through the motions one last time -- are pure tabloid ... and raise new questions about the professionalism of the MSM.
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Finally!
Deal makers from the world's largest energy firms assembled amid tight security at Iraq's Oil Ministry on Friday to compete for deals to develop some of the country's most prized oilfields.
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Pictures of the Week: Nobel Edition
To hear my riff on the Pictures of the Week, check out this latest segment of "No Days Off" from Florida Progressive Radio (after 1 minute commercial).
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Early Report on the Afghan Police Mentoring Program
With the surge now a fact, word is spreading fast about the Afghan police -- and how they're playing us for suckers.
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Your Turn: I am at the Beginning, and Not the End, of My Labors on the World Stage
BAGreaders respond to this photo taken of Obama looking at wall of past Nobel Prize winners upon accepting his prize in Oslo.
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TODAY in Afghanistan
Before Defense honcho Bob Gates had his first press conference with Karzai after the surge announcement, we see Gates kicking off his week "in country" with Today Show's smiley face Matt Lauer, surely a dose of comfort for the uncertain American audience.
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Yule Tide
With the terrible sadness I'm feeling over America's obsession with all things militaristic -- a preoccupation I somehow thought would end with Bush -- I look at this brilliant portrait from Obama's Afghanistan surge speech at West Point last week and I think....
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Bow This!
Barry Blitt's cartoon -- marking his triumphant return to the Oval Office -- is more than just funny. It's also a statement that this "liberal media" Palin and the wingnuts are constantly referring to is as real as Santa.
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Shafting Tiger and Obama: That Sexually-Suggestive Golf Digest Cover
For whatever drama the new Tiger/Obama Golf Digest cover kicks up since Tiger hit the tree, it only gets in the way of seeing how sexually and racially exploitive it was in the first place.
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