$50 in cold hard cash

From DougJ to anyone with the balls (err… ovaries?) to say it like it is on national TV.

His first donation recipient: Marcy Wheeler Investigative Blogging Fund for this statement:

“Your idea is that after investigating Bill Clinton for a blow job for like five years, we shouldn’t investigate the huge, grossly illegal things that were done under the past administration, only because Alberto Gonzales was too much in the back pocket of Dick Cheney to do it while he was still in office.”

Do I see the promise of a green note with Ulysses S. Grant’s mug on it drastically changing the integrity of cable news? Not at all… but it’s nice to see someone giving props where props are due.

“Frenchie-froggy-frenchie-froggy” healthcare edition

Dennis Boyles says: “Frenchie Froggy Frenchie Froggy.”

Matthew Yglesias says: “False.”

Eddie Izzard says:

Yeah, that wasn’t his “Frenchie-Froggy-Frenchie-Froggy” bit on the tiff between France and Britain during the Mad Cow Disease scare… but I couldn’t find it. Deal.

“We are as Gods, and have to get good at it.”