…to run yet another insane, bloodthirsty, absurd, neo-con editorial calling for war, WAR, WAR GODDAMIT!!!!

What would we do without the liberal media, eh folks?

Merry Christmas kid… sorry you had to die!

To celebrate the season, RML offers us the cover from his Advent prayer book. Which gives us naughty ideas for next year’s Advent calendar.

Yes, it’s last year’s Christmas Eve post — but with a new headline! Such is what passes for Tradition in these parts.

The Famous Yule Log [WPIX]

Our C-SPAN streaming plug-in is on the fritz, so we’ve invited famed political illustrator Pieter Bruegel the Elder to depict the Senate as it casts its historic healthcare vote at this hour.

Susan Sarandon And Tim Robbins Call It Quits [MTV]

Anthony Galluccio swears he’s innocent. No, not for the hit-and-run — he fessed to that, and the Massachusetts state senator has been confined to his home for six months. But the terms of his probation include random alcohol testing, and he set off the breathalyzer several times Monday.

His excuse? Toothpaste.

After discussing it with a physician, we have determined that is the result of my using two toothpastes — Colgate Total Whitening and Sensodyne Toothpaste, both of which contain sorbitol. While I knew that mouthwash or cold medicine would set the machine off, it did not occur to me that toothpaste would.

Didn’t occur to us either, but we’re adding Colgate Anticavity Single Malt to our shopping list.

Galluccio Flunks Alcohol Test, Blames Toothpaste [WCVB]

Guess who loves Joseph Stalin more than she loves Jesus? That’s right, the website Truthdig has revealed that, even as she rails against government spending on social programs, GOP wundernut Muchelle Bachmann has been pulling in a pretty penny from U.S. Government agricultural subsidies:

According to the [Environmental Working Group] records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn.

That’s right: government redistribution of wealth is good for me, bad for thee. You start wondering whether hypocrisy is a requirement for membership in the GOP, or if it just develops naturally after years of pissing on working class families while telling them it’s raining.

(Via Crooks and Liars)