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• Netroots: Celebrating Pre-Emptive Victimhood

  August 8, 12:18 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  From Daily Kos/MyDD, delighting in the forecasted fallout from today's Lieberman/Lamont primary race in CT, where Netroots Darling Ned is expected to provide th... | More »

• A November to Remember? Anti-Incumbent Sentiment at 12-Year High

  August 8, 12:03 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  From the Washington Post: House Incumbents at Risk, Poll Finds ...Especially worrisome for members of Congress is that the proportion of Americans who approve of their... | More »

• America's Anti-Orgasm Ordinances: Don't Come Around Here No More

  August 8, 12:17 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Have you seen that little Trojan "vibrating ring" they sell at Safeway these days? Well if you live in Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Boulder, Topeka, Jackson, or Richm... | More »

• All the News That Fits...Primary Power in CT, GA; Change for "Dollar Bill"?; Plus: Death Squads Target Iraq's Gays

  August 8, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  CT's Lieberman/Lamont race heads to voters with the Shar-Pei trailing the Jack Russel by six percent in the latest poll. Cynthia "The Cop Slapper" McKinney al... | More »

• Who Actually Likes Hillary Clinton?

  August 8, 12:00 AM ET

  For a catalogue of Hillary's sins — imitating Richard Nixon chief among them — check out the new installment of "The Low Post," Matt Taibbi's new, weekly... | More »

• Wish List: Bands You'd Most Like to See Reunite

  August 7, 3:10 PM ET

  Last month we posted about a big, super-special reunion planned for next year's Glastonbury festival. Our first guess was that it was going to be the Faces, but s... | More »

• Bono Makes Very Un-Rock-&-Roll Purchase of Forbes Magazine

  August 7, 1:04 PM ET

  When you're as rich as Bono you can buy whatever you want: a fleet of private jets, homes in the South of France, 10,000 pairs of wrap around sunglasses and now, ... | More »

• A Taste of Onscreen Violence

  August 7, 12:55 PM ET

  Three things you may not have known: "Bumfights" is a series of low budget films in which homeless are paid to fight each other, hurt themselves or be hurt. "From j... | More »

• All the News That Fits... Ney Out, Hagel "Hopless," Santorum Just Ducky

  August 7, 12:49 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  2008 contender Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska): U.S. soldiers in Iraq face a "hopeless, winless situation." Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), the man Jack Abramoff is in the slam... | More »

• Edwards: Start Withdrawal ASAP

  August 7, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Former Vice Presidential contender and Iowa Caucus 2008 frontrunner John Edwards has called for withdrawal in Iraq to begin immediately: "We should take 40,000 combat ... | More »

• Is Yuppie Paranoia (and David Brooks) Destroying the Democratic Party?

  August 4, 10:07 AM ET

  Check out the first installment of Matt Taibbi's new column, "The Low Post." In it, he tracks the role of a David Brooks NYT piece in Joe Lieberman's flailin... | More »

• All the News That Fits...Stuck in Beirut, "Global Warmism" and More

  August 4, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  War intensifies in Lebanon. Israel bombs a bridge in central Beirut, one of the last remaining arteries out of the city. (Video.) Senators slam Rumsfeld on Iraq. Ge... | More »

• Bush's Islamic Ignorance

  August 4, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Raw Story is reporting that president Bush didn't know Shiite from Sunni before he made the decision to invade Iraq: A year after his "Axis of Evil" speech befor... | More »

• Live Report: Sleater-Kinney's Last Show in NYC

  August 3, 5:21 PM ET

  | By Rob Sheffield

  Sleater-Kinney went out the way they always promised they would - all at once, not piece by piece. "Like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe," as Corin T... | More »