Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:44:24 pm
YouTube It's already been a hell of a week for intense news, so now it's time for some great music as NPR's Tiny Desk series celebrates their 500th concert by hosting The Arcs, featuring the awesome Mariachi Flor de Toloache. January 25, 2016 by BOB BOILEN Today, we celebrate the release ...

Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:08:20 pm
Oregon Live is reporting that the standoff at Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge may no longer be a standoff: Pete Santilli: Militants supporter says Ammon Bundy in custody. (Santilli is a far right lunatic, so we should consider this report unconfirmed at this point.) Two people have been shot and Ammon Bundy ...

Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:12:23 am
In the bizarre saga of cyberstalker Chuck C. "Rage Furby" Johnson and his frivolous lawsuit against Gawker Media, today Chuck got some news that he's probably a bit upset about: the federal judge tossed out his case in Missouri for lack of jurisdiction. This was a very predictable outcome, because the ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:54:03 am
YouTube Joey Alexander is from Bali, he's 12 years old, and his facility on the piano is absolutely mind-blowing. In this video he plays one of the most difficult jazz standards ever written, John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" (named that because of the wild chord changes) and improvises with sensitivity and grace, ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:26:51 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com SoundCloud After more than 8 years of right wing Birther insanity, it's difficult to express my sense of absolute poetic justice to see conservatives beginning to rip one of their own leading presidential candidates to shreds over the very same stupid issue. And now John McCain is joining ...

Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:29:32 pm
Standing next to the parents of children murdered by gun violence today, President Obama got emotional and teared up. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's a sign of strength to be unafraid of your emotions, not weakness. This shouldn't even need to be pointed out in 2016, but ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:41:12 pm
YouTube Here's one of the head cases currently involved in the standoff at the Malheur Widlife Refuge in Oregon, John Ritzheimer, previously known for organizing menacing armed demonstrations at mosques, taking a selfie video in his car as he prepares to drive to Oregon. It's basically the right wing equivalent of an ...

Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:59:03 am
The far right loons who took over the headquarters of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are now in their second day of "occupation," and oddly enough there isn't a single post about it yet at Breitbart "News." When they delay writing about something that's so obviously appealing to the right ...

Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:39:45 am
Right wing sites all over the net are screaming that this report from the Wall Street Journal proves President Obama "hates Israel." For example: BREAKING: Jew-hating administration singled out Jewish state for surveillance while negotiating with country pledging genocide against Jews — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 30, 2015 But if you actually ...

Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:02:48 pm
Vimeo WARNING: Not for young children unless you want an awkward talk with them. There comes a time in every parent's life when the harsh reality hits -- their child is growing up. And with that realization comes an event, a moment, faced with fear and trepidation, when said parent ...

Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:38:23 pm
There's a lot of horrible stuff being posted at right wing blogs following the attack on the Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs today. But cyberstalker Chuck C. Johnson, who actually has a reason to -- at least -- offer a pro forma denunciation like his nervous pal David Daleiden ...

Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 7:03:33 pm
MSNBC On Thursday, Donald Trump called for a national database of Muslims, perhaps the most outright fascist statement he's made yet. But today a weird twist has emerged, as right wing media are actually trying to deny Trump ever said this. For example, at the propaganda site known as "Breitbart News," right ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43:12 am
European Union officials have now announced that all of the Paris attackers identified so far were actually EU nationals -- not Syrian refugees. But as you can see from the map above, there are now at least 28 states in which governors have indicated they'll refuse to admit Syrian refugees. This ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:06:29 am
Some interesting news from the investigation into the terrorist attacks in Paris: the Syrian passport found near one of the terrorists' bodies may have been planted in an attempt to stir up anti-immigrant hatred in Europe. “The single most intriguing fact is that the passport was there at all,” one ...

Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:34:38 pm
Immediately following the horrific terror attacks in Paris, conservative media and blogs started pushing their usual line of horse puckey; the French had it coming because they have strict gun control laws. If they only had more guns, they could have stopped those terrorists in their tracks. Of course, France's gun ...

Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:44:17 pm
Image via Shutterstock Presented without comment. Maybe guard the border before the massacre — David Frum (@davidfrum) November 13, 2015 Imagine a theater with 10 or 15 citizens with concealed carry permits. We live in an age when evil men have to be killed by good people — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) November 13, 2015 ...

Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 1:13:40 pm
Good grief, not this old dried-up fake story again. Jim Hoft, fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, goes full-on Birther at last with an amazingly incoherent (even for him) post that tries to accuse the media of having a double standard because they criticize Ben Carson but never mentioned that ...

Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:09:24 am
Chuck C. Johnson poses with Center for Medical Progress head David Daleiden, October 25, 2015 We have an update to our article on horrible right wing troll Chuck C. Johnson's subpoena from the National Abortion Federation; his lawyer has now filed a motion to quash the subpoena, not on grounds of ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:25:19 pm
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner announced the eight Republican members of the new "Select Investigative Panel" the GOP is launching to continue their election-season persecution of Planned Parenthood and other women's health providers. Would you be surprised to learn that all eight of them are anti-choice ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:18:38 pm
Vimeo Wow, new music from Joanna Newsom for the first time in five years, and it's magnificent. She's probably best known for her compositions on which she plays harp, but there's no harp on this song -- just an incredible arrangement of a very different sort of music. The title of the ...

Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:51:58 am
Chuck C. Johnson and his lawyer John Burns actually met their final deadline to respond to Gawker in the defamation suit they filed, and this time they managed to produce some documents that aren't quite as obviously terrible as their first attempt. For the record, here they are, uploaded to Scribd ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:40:40 am
The bugs... get 'em OFF ME! When our boy Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) titles one of his crack-brained rants "ANALYSIS," you know you're in for a real dose of that old Chuck Johnson weirdness. And his latest dumpster fire of a blog post doesn't disappoint. You see, Chuck is ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:11:47 am
The political news today for Jeb Bush is not good; the latest poll from Florida shows him with support in the single digits. In Florida. Ouch. But Ben Carson and Donald Trump, arguably the two most extreme Republicans in the race, have reason to party: both of them are now over ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:37:08 pm
The other shoe just dropped for Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) and his lawyer John Burns; the judge has thrown out Chuck's entire 111-page opposition to Gawker's motions and all 800+ pages of exhibits, with a scathing ruling you can read below. Chuck and his crack legal staff are ...

Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 3:36:02 pm
YouTube Volume 3 of Bob Schneider's King Kong Suite has just been released, and here's the first official video from it, with a song about money and the lies that grease the wheels. Directed by Bob Schneider John Ginty - Keyboards Billy Harvey - Guitar & backing vocals Dave Monsey - Bass