LittleSis: Two big players, in both the Democratic party and the business community, teamed with the Chamber of Commerce to fight financial reform

Pruning Shears: What happened to WaMu? The FDIC won't say

FDL News Desk: Dorgan exploring the mystery of who killed his drug reimportation legislation

Crooked Timber: The failure of trickle down...

Mock, Paper, Scissors: I needed a laugh. Thanks Tengrain

HOLY CRAP: Satan attacks Rod Parsley...Christian Radio...Indoctrination is all the “Hip”...Suck on this, infidel...Christmas quagmire...Oral Roberts passes on...This guy has absorbed too many kicks to the head...Ted Haggard still begging forgiveness...Oh, the humanity!...Christmas billboard...Christian radio, part ll...The courthouse is not a church...Criminal resigns from pedophile cult...Principles...

Dean Broder: "Get off my lawn!" by Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors. Open thread below...

Mock, Paper, Scissors: Tengrain Presents the End of the Recession!

WetMachine: Benchmarks and the Broadband Ecology

Rawrahs: Thank you, Jimmy Carter

Susie Bright's Journal (not work-safe): Socialist is the new Black. And while we're doing the not-work-safe stuff, Alabama is still outlawing the sex toys. I'm so outta there forever.

Wonkette: Waitaminit, Judge: 'Saying something is so, does not make it so?' There goes the modern Conservative Movement.

BG filling in today and tomorrow for Mike, who's jamming.

Mock, Paper, Scissors: Can Sanford salvage his book deal? Oh, yes..

Echidne of the Snakes: Hacktackular Howie

Booman Tribune: Advice for Harry Reid

Corrente: Terminological Interlude

Calitics: At the end of this process, somebody will step up to a microphone and claim how reaching agreement is a sign of success.  No.  It's a sign of failure.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: MN Progressive Project, Blue Heron Blast, Economic Perspectives from Kansas City, archy

Mahablog: Life as a preexisting condition, and why the private health care industry will never, ever, not in a million years, come even close to solving the health care crisis.

No Comment: Partisan politics and accountability for torture. (But horrors, how could anyone question Cheney's virtue?)

Mock, Paper, Scissors: Because nothing is as funny as keeping innocent people in Gitmo.

The Hunting of the Snark: Dear Heaven, they've hired another one.

Zaius Nation: Doctor Zaius highlights some cool blog artists.

Guest post by Batocchio. Temporarily e-mail tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com.

Mock, Paper, Scissors: Who has better sex: Dems v. GOP Matrix

Vagabond Scholar: Defending torture insistently means one's moral compass is pointing straight down to hell

A Tiny Revolution: Obama's great concern is about the impact on the U.S. public, half of which is already far more interested in accountability for torture than he is, and the other half unwilling or unable to conceive of US torture unless shown pictures.

Wonkette: Lying hypocrite, Newt Gingrich, is the voice of the GOP.  Can someone explain why any cognizant human would pay any attention to this waste of skin?

OurFuture: Big Busines likes arbitration...if it can control the process

Agitprop: When an authority figure comes to you and says “We must do this now or else [fill in the blank]” it’s best to question their motives.