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I have about eight feet of snow at my house. I posted about shovelling off my deck a coupla weeks ago*. It's as deep with new snow as it...

"We think 'Children In Coal Mines' best captures the old-time values we want to get back to." Thanks, Don .

Think Progress , links at site. Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes Much o...

Grist Recession-wracked California is truly going down the toilet. For green energy, that is. In a gift to headline writers everywhere, the ...

GE isn't the only one doing it by a long shot. An article a year or two ago stated that at least 80 of the top Fortune 500 companies pa...

Live performance of Six White Cadillacs from Emmylou Harris at the IFC Crossroads House in Austin, TX, from SXSW 2011 . From her new album...

I have said before, and maintain, that to some people "religious freedom" means you can belong to any batcrap crazy right-wing chr...

This may be of interest to you beer guys. Brand X Stark Bar grips craft beer bandwagon rave, makes local beer writer mad Beer writer?! You ...

...and the Chimp considered doing it to start his war in Iraq, so it figures some wingnut would drag it out for their war on the middle cla...

El Rude-o Yes, even with the eternal dickishness of Republican legislative behavior when it comes to abortion, which is their favoritest iss...

Not much goin' on the last few days but do the best I can for Mrs. G and her new see-through eyeball, move snow around, and anything I c...

Doyle McManus How do Republicans support the bombing without supporting President Obama? Republican presidential hopefuls have been scrambli...

LATimes Border Patrol agents on Interstate 8 east of San Diego arrest two alleged smugglers and 13 migrants wearing military garb while trav...

I've said, since I've been blogging, that my travels throughout the world have made a big impact on what I feel America's place ...

The Republicans might get to the issue they ran on : ... But in the three months since taking over the House and expanding their voices in t...

I hope nobody still believes Libya is a humanitarian mission: ... [British Prime Minister David] Cameron's foreign secretary, William H...

Let's hope so : ... I suspect the medical marijuana industry, thanks to its fast growth, is approaching an important financial tipping p...

TPMMuckraker Darrell Issa (R-CA) lobbed criticism at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Wednesday night and revea...

If it's Wednesday, it must be Morford . The cat's smokin' some good shit today! Do not miss this one! Links I can almost guarant...

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars My first thought was oy gevult! but I got to thinkin' about it. I don't know a d...