Where our debt comes from… and where its going.

Steny Hoyer reamed the GOP this week about the various causes of the debt.  Based on that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) went all charty.  Look where our debt would be without the perfect storm of economy killing factors:

 

CJ Craig defeats old Kristen Bell in congressional upset!

the website that will make me care (more) about sports

Renown sports writer and “sports guy” Bill Simmons will be getting his own digital magazine.  A little gift from ESPN for all his years of sucking up to Isaiah Thomas. This promises to be quite awesome as some of the writers already signed up include Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Eggers, and Simmons himself used to write for Jimmy Kimmel Live.  The site is named after a famous sports writer from the 20s that helped make sports the mainstay of American life that it is.

 

Check out the “coming soon” screenshot to see what this is great for me.

The Bin Laden Bluth Connection

Dead serious story.  Googled Abbottabad and found the Google Maps location for Obama Bin Laden’s headquarters.  Was interested in where it was.  Clicked Reviews.  Here’s the page that came up.  Still laughing.

for no particular reason

“I think that Bigfoot is blurry- that’s the problem.”

 

Great Jason Linkins line:

from his article today “What's Next For The Birthers? (Basically, More Birtherism)”

Yesterday, President Barack Obama allowed the world to see his "long-form birth certificate," proving something that was already widely known, but not accepted in some dank, idiotic circles: that he was born in the United States. And so, this great controversy has finally been put to rest. Ha, just kidding! It will do nothing of the sort, actually. Did you think that Pestilence is going to pull up short on his steed to tell the other Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse, "Yo, man, I'm out. I think that penicillin makes a lot of good points."

And Colbert of course added his thoughts last night

Slight of hand?

Does anyone suspect that the long form birth certificate release was to distract people from the defense staff shuffle?

Thoughts? comments?

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