Bill O'Reilly has been making a lot of news lately. I'm wondering if he's been even louder lately because of the vacuum that now exists in place of Republican leadership. Bill is stepping up and speaking out! It's the Bill and Sarah Palin show, people. Bill and Sarah.

And Bill O'Reilly doesn't know what a panda looks like? Pandas are the international symbol for peace and conservation. Every fetus is taught in utero that pandas are black and white and eat nothing but bamboo and are extremely rare because they are too lazy to mate. My God, no wonder the right was so anti-environment for so long -- they don't even know what nature looks like!

Is it bad to enjoy watching the right flail? Because this is a lot of fun.

Jon Stewart shoots down all of the stupid arguments used to support Prop 8.

And, as we throw our support behind all of the hard work being done in California, we need to remember that the anti-gay marriage and anti-civil rights Prop 102 in Arizona and Amendment 2 in Florida are being battled as well.

Via The Daily Beast: Jon Stewart takes down the NYT's Conservative Bill Kristol.

Tom Toles, copyright 2008 Universal Press Syndicate

Social Populism vs Economic Populism

Christopher Buckley on The Daily Show

Democrats could dominate Congress after the election. "The Senate map, for the Republicans, is an ugly mix of tough circumstances, plain bad luck and troubled candidates."

Rising unemployment could signal higher foreclosures in 09

James Kotecki will make your ears bleed, but we have to listen to this so we know how NOT to be.

The Republican Party is breaking apart

Time columnist Joe Klein without a seat on the McCain or Palin planes the past four months. Maureen Dowd got banned, too! "I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office."

Trying to assess the state of each candidate's health to understand what it might mean to the presidency

The Power of Powell's Rebuke. "Colin Powell demonstrated his eponymous 'Powell Doctrine' of overwhelming force on Sunday when he endorsed Barack Obama on Meet the Press. The one-time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff systematically marshaled his assets to neutralize the Republican endgame strategy, which is to suffuse the air around Obama with a vague mist of terrorism, socialism and 'otherness.'"

Jon Stewart's Jason Jones interviews the current mayor of Wasilla

Colin Farrell discusses his sex tape
Daily Show couple to write CBS sitcom

Liz Smith reviews Brolin as W

Via popnography, some stills from Milk

Gus Van Sant to be honored that the LA Gay and Lesbian Center

Audre Lorde, the black lesbian poet, is celebrated for Black History Month

Scissor Sisters perform at Mercury Lounge last night

More Heroes defections

omgblog has an NSFW pic of what is probably a naked Ashton Kutcher sitting on the toilet. (NSFW) I mean, take it where you can get it, right?

Madonna wears dumb shoes to the New York premiere of her new movie Filth and Wisdom

Michelle Obama chats with Jon Stewart. (8:56)