FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Kessler, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable Ameri
[Welcome David Kessler, M.D., and Host, Jill Richardson - bev]

Bart Stupak’s C-Street Sepsis
As you read Bart Stupak boasting of taking reproductive choice away from women, remember that he’s not just an otherwise good Democrat (he’s not, in fact, a Blue Dog) who consistently lets the agenda of the Catholic Church override the well-being of his constituents, he’s also one of C-Street’s top Democratic members.

House Passes Health Care Reform – Looking Back
Strange Rubble by Joseph Hatfield via flickr I had to check out before the final vote, but last night at 11pm ET, the House of Representatives, for the first time ever, passed health care reform by the skin of their teeth, by the narrow score of 220-215. 39 Democrats voted against, 1 Republican vote

Frank Luntz Defends Increasingly Incendiary Right-Wing Rhetoric: “They’re So Afraid”
In the wake of some criminal or morally reprehensible behavior by a brown person non-conservative, wingnuts absolutely hate any attempt to examine the psychological state of the culprit. You saw this last week after the tragedy at Ft. Hood — they were besides themselves that the media reported the allegation that Nidal Hasan had been taunted because of his religion. OMG THE LIBRUL MEDIAS MAKING EXCUSES FOR THE TERRORIST OMG! So it was amusing to see that pasty butterball Frank Luntz, wearing way too much mak

In Goldman, Sachs We Trust
photo: Carrie Sloan via Flickr That’s the title of Chapter IV of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Great Crash 1929. The description of the activities of GS in the months prior to October, 1929, are eerily similar to those of GS in the run-up to the great crash of 2008, as