You've done it again Cunningham!

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

"Real" America

'Nice thoughts on this crass GOP recent talking point from LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks.

Palin's bad hair day

Check out this enjoyable video collection of Palin's previous hairdo's. PF likes the early 80s look with the t-shirt "broke but not flat-busted..." You betcha! ;)

The financial collapse explained

This article by Josh Holland does as good a job as I've seen explaining the main causes of our economic meltdown, in a nutshell the greed of the investment banks and their practice of "leveraging," a scheme largely unregulated by a Congress duped by anti-regulatory ideology and investment bank lobbying.

Nebraska's hayseed bandwagon

'Don't know about you, but PF is sure relieved to know that public servants like Dave Heineman and Jon Bruning have all of their day work so well in hand that they can find the spare time to monitor the speaking engagements of UNL and offer their sage advice on the matter. I don't much care for Bill Ayers' political views or certainly his violent past, but I thought part of the "freedom" of Toby Keith videos and red-state USA means the freedom to speak and hear people with differing views. And of course Ayers wasn't invited to talk politics, but rather education.

Here's the list of shame of Nebraska's free speech cowards who hopped on the anti-Ayers bandwagon:

Heineman (nice robotic plug for working in Nebraska government during the Huskers game though Dave)
Bruning (isn't there some spicy Hannah Montana website you could be lurking at?)
Ben Nelson (tool; Nebraska's own Joe Lieberman with a bad hairpiece)
Regent Chuck Hassebrook
UNL Pres JB Milliken (shame on you JB; you're ordinarily more sensible than this)
Adrian Smith (I'm sure he'll be in this fray shortly after he's finished with his daily Palin fantasy)

Props, however, to Harvey Perlman who stood for principle and freedom amidst this conservative clown chorus.

I do however agree with Heineman that UNL's "security cancellation" sounds fishy. Another cowardly move....if you're going to cancel, at least have the guts to come out and say why, rather than hide behind a likely phony "no comment" security pretext.

Election fraud: October (November?) surprise?

I was uneasy about this election fraud angle already before coming across this post by Greg Palast (a journalist actually practicing investigative journalism) talking about voter-purging in nearby Colorado. Similar stories have broke about pivotal Ohio (although a Supreme Court ruling today certainly appears to help matters). Faux News has been hammering the ACORN/voter fraud angle incessantly for days now. Is this the last-ditch GOP/McPalin strategy...blow up the voter fraud issue to a. discredit upcoming (likely Democractic-friendly) election results; b. scare off potential voters (most likely Democratic) and/or quietly pursue the issue behind the scenes yanking voters off the rolls while the McMedia and Sheople trade talking points over Ayers and Joe the Plumber?

Internet vigilantes going too far?

Check out the ethical dilemma presented in this episode of one of my favorite podcasts (This American Life) (the story entitled "hanging in Chad"), which involves the effort of a couple of self-appointed American Internet "vigilantes" who go after people trying to run e-mail/internet scams. The story begins innocently and humorously enough, but as the story unfolds, real questions arise as to the ethics of the actions involved.

"Evangelical Dominatrix...."

In case you missed it, check out Simpsons writer Dana Gould as he skewers Palin on Bill Maher's recent show (go to 9:00 if you're impatient or can't stand listening to Wall St Journal knucklehead Stephen Moore).

Assassination-in-training

Welcome to a sumptuous buffet of "love thy neighbor" Americans respectfully articulating their policy disagreements with Obama...

McCain: a "mean little f*cker"

That was the verdict of one of McCain's ($40,000 private) high school chums, as related in the Rolling Stone expose on McCain below. 'Seems like things haven't changed that much, as this video highlights. As much as I might otherwise kinda relish the idea of a US president flying into a rage at the craps table, I think I'll take a pass on that kind of temperment when we're talking nuke launch codes...