Infrastructurist: The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Shown in Graph

The Pump Handle: The general public has become slightly more aware of the fact that going to work – especially in the energy industry – can be dangerous, but how long will that awareness last?

TheZoo: The Blow-Out Preventer

Eunomia: Love of Liberty

FAIR Blog: WaPo or The Onion?

Brilliant at Breakfast: Classless Warfare

From The Onion. Open thread below...

Ahhh...The Onion.

Open thread below...

Obsidian Wings: Are there really two sides to the torture question? The WaPo declares itself unable to find the truth.

Balloon Juice: Stupid and Proud of It

The Reality-Based Community: There's been a lot of hand-wringing about the financial troubles of newspapers, but now it's quite obvious how reporters are handling the situation: they are just moonlighting for the insurance industry and the RNC. Nice work if you can get it.

Nameless Cynic: We're Communicating ll

Politics in the Zeros: Zero Hedge Whols. They don't want you to find them

HOLY CRAP: Oh ye hypocrites...GWB antichrist...Ugly Christian...No Gimmick Church...How Shall You Die?...Proof we're a 'Christian' nation...Hard-Wired for sin...Catholic Bishops assail health plan...Pious torturers...Followers of the Way... Atheists' Armageddon pet rescue...The last nail...

THE DAY IN LUNACY: Limbaugh's penis...A “Great American”...Inhofe's 'Revolution'...Truth or fiction?...Suggested by Glenn Beck?...Ghouls...Not all mad dogs get licensed

Jesus' General: Who's a better Christian?

Veterans For Common Sense: Vets demand an apology from the GOP and FOX for lies about the VA

Red Dirt Report: Swine flu fearmongering a mass psy-op?

Pruning Shears: Slavery: It works, so it should be legalized

David's posterous: Mr. President, please remember that this is, for some of us, literally a life or death matter.

The Onion (edited for safe-for-work viewing, see original here) finally gets the 40-year-old headline right. The interactive website commemorating today's anniversary is worth the click.

40 years ago we were a nation that spent billions of dollars on the crap shoot of putting three men on top of 3,200 tons of hellfire wrapped in an aluminum skin and firing the whole thing at a dead rock 240,000 miles away because our destiny demanded it.

40 years later we are a nation that will not spend billions to keep its 300 million citizens alive, healthy and productive because the insurance industry lobbyists who own our politicians forbid it.

[Blue Gal's taking the night off to celebrate her birthday. Have a good one, BG.] Open Thread in comments...

The Jimmy Carter Op-Ed piece at The Onion is satire. It is full of obscenities. It is not safe for work, and most of all it does not reflect in the least the dignity, intelligence, and morality of the 39th President of the United States.

I laughed my butt off.

Open Thread below...

Click for larger...City Hall Flag by Zen Sutherland at Zenography, a nice collection of photos worth the click.

A friend told me yesterday he stopped reading The Onion when he found he couldn't tell if they were kidding or not. In that vein, Media Bloodhound has the 2007 Fact or Fiction Challenge. See if you can spot the true stories/headlines and diss the fake ones.

John put up a couple of posts yesterday pointing to William Kristol's delusional OpEd, Why Bush Will Be A Winner at the Washington Post yesterday. Kristol writes at the beginning of his article:

I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one.

Somehow, I don't think Mr. Kristol knew just how much harmless ridicule was headed his way, but The Post should have. As I write this there are some 124 PAGES of comments and after reading nearly 40 of them I could only find one or two individual posts that were supportive of him.

"Why is the Post printing anything by that idiot Kristol? Who's paying the Post to print this drivel?

"Criminy, kids hide your model sets Uncle Billy's been huffing airplane glue again."

"This piece was supposed to go in The Onion but missed their deadline."

"The 27% is slipping away from Bush and the GOP. Fortunately for Kristol, these are the goobers who buy the penis extension pills and baldness remedies advertised on Limbaugh's show. The point being that it doesn't take a lot to schnooker them.You really need to drug-test your contributors before printing delusional fantasies such as this."

"What bothers me most about Kristol's idiodic posting is that I encoutered it in th Washington Post. What are the standards? What would be too stupid to print in the Post?"

*Update: There are now 200 pages of comments and still, no love for Baghdad Bill...

Bill Donohue and the evil onion dip....