Category: The Dish

A new book from the always hilarious Rob Kutner of the Daily Show is just out. Here’s Rob Riggle’s promo. If you need a laugh on your way to Armageddon, it looks promising.

Another brilliant skewering from Chait.

Jake Tapper follows Bill Clinton’s divisive, anti-Obama rhetoric in West Virginia.

It’s a theme of his new Kentucky ad. But not new:

Obama has been a proponent of coal-to-liquid legislation and even co-sponsored a bill with Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning in 2007. "I am a strong believer in the free market, and I relied on my long experience in economics when I wrote the coal-to-liquid legislation that I introduced with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill," wrote Bunning in a June 11, 2007 column in the Herald-Leader. "My bill would provide incentives for the first commercial demonstrations of coal-to-liquid technology."

I thought Rove had shown that Obama had no bipartisan record in the Senate? If you still believe that, you should revisit Hilzoy’s definitive post here.

From HillaryClintonForum.net:

Hillary reaches to every mother on earth and, through them, to every child and even every father. Hillary is the Mother we all wish we had: tall, strong, sweet, smart, joyful and clear.

Gwyneth Cravens wonders if nuclear is our best hope.

They’re leaving in droves – but where they’re headed is harder to tell. Bottom line:

"I just keep thinking, if Jesus were alive now, he wouldn’t necessarily be voting Republican."

More here.

Some amazing maps of the US from Ben Fry:

An image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. This began as an example I created for a student in the fall of 2006, and I just recently got a chance to document it properly.

McCain makes a Mother’s Day ad:

An Atlantic classic, Albert Einstein’s 1947 article on the atomic bomb where he proposes a world government, an idea with some currency at the time:

I do not hide from myself the great difficulties of establishing a world government, either a beginning without Russia or one with Russia. I am aware of the risks. Since I should not wish it to be permissible for any country that has joined the supranational organization to secede, one of these risks is possible civil war. But I also believe that world government is certain to come in time, and that the question is how much it is to be permitted to cost. It will come, I believe, even if there is another world war, though after such a war, if it is won, it would be world government established by the victor, resting on the victor’s military power, and thus to be maintained permanently only through the permanent militarization of the human race.

On a related note, also from the archives, here’s a first-hand account of the bombing at Hiroshima.