Our Lady Peace - In Repair

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution

Kenna - Hell Bent

It involved the Rev's daughter in a tutu gallivanting around the chancel.  On Christmas Eve.

This is what happens when you let women be ministers (apologies to John Goodman).

Yoko Ono is the best Beatle.

Srsly.

What is the opposite of REMF?  FEFF?

Marty Haugen really makes the old ears bleed, but our Episcopal Church had something called "liturgical ballet" a few years back.  It was horrifying and hilarious at the same time.

Wait, Huffington Post is racist?????????????  I'm so confused right now.

I think that Pigford should be used as a model. 50K for every Tea Partier or "attempted to be a Tea Partier" in the country.  Seems reasonable to me.

Also, the comments on this excrement over at Reason make me very happy.  I'm sure I don't have to warn anyone about naughty language.

I encourage you to poke your head into the Leftwing fever swamps; it will assure you that Attkisson is doing a good job.  Her reporting on F & F was unrivaled in the MSM.

I don't think it's an investigative reporter's job to draw the conclusions for us.  She reports what the nameless officials have said; we decide.

I recommend reading Sharyl Attkisson's latest, if y'all haven't.  There are lots of pull quotes, but these are my favorite:

"We're portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots," said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. "It's actually closer to us being idiots."

However, absent the CSG's collective advice, there's evidence that some high-level decision makers were unaware of all available resources. In October, on a phone call that included then-Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough (now White House Chief of Staff), Vietor initially told CBS News: "I don't know what [FEST] is... it sounds antiquated."

"Sir, I'm taking Vice President Biden's place today.  I hope he enjoys his day off at the petting zoo."

Meh, stuff like this goes on all the time during hearings.  I'd have to watch what happened before this little tiff to get the context.  It's sad that people will watch a 2 minute clip and come forth with all sorts of conclusions.  But you can take my word, as someone who watched/listened to most of one of the House hearings on F & F, and watched/listened to most of the recent House hearing on Benghazi:

The media does a terrible job of reporting on these things, because doing a good job requires a lot of background work, and a long attention span.  Mix in a bit of True Believer that most of our press corpse have, and voila, you have a recipe for playing up what doesn't matter and amplifying the insignificant.

Noam Scheiber's spin on the IRS scandal in the New Republic, as discussed here, might perhaps be even better than Toobin's.  As a bonus at the link, you'll see another excellent point regarding the famous Legal Analyst's claptrap.

Bottom line: The Leftists writing these defenses aren't the least bit interested in the actual facts of what happened.

Stefano said she tried to start her own group called The Loyal Opposition between 2010-2011. But when she applied for tax exempt status, the IRS responded with a litany of questions that put her off.

“I was pregnant and on a single income and they were asking me questions like, ‘Are you on Facebook,” she said incredulously. “They wanted my personal Facebook page.”

“A lawyer told me, ‘They’re going to come after you and if you make one mistake they could ruin your life’,” Stefano added. “I like to think of myself as very tough, but I’m ashamed to say I was intimidated and frightened, and I shut it down.”

But remember:

A handful of I.R.S. employees saw this and tried, in a small way, to impose some small sense of order.

Excellent analysis.

Famous right-wing nutjob Dana Milbank:

But there would be more sympathy, and support, for Holder if he took seriously the lawmakers’ legitimate questions about his department’s abuse of power in the AP case. He may have recused himself from the leak probe that led to the searches of reporters’ phone records (a decision he took so lightly that he didn’t put it in writing), but he isn’t recused from defending the First Amendment.

Didn’t the deputy attorney general who approved the subpoenas have the same potential conflict of interest that Holder claimed?

“I don’t know.”

When did Holder recuse himself?

“I’m not sure.”

How much time was spent exploring alternatives to the subpoenas?

“I don’t know, because, as I said, I recused myself.”

But when the Justice Department undermines the Constitution, recusal is no excuse.