Tyson posed for photos with fans, signed autographs and campaigned for Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele.

Tyson, wearing a white and blue Steele for U.S. Senate T-shirt, said he used to believe black Republicans were "sellouts." But Tyson said he changed his mind after researching the Maryland lieutenant governor.

"We have to open our eyes more," Tyson said, as he pointed to his T-shirt.

Strangely enough, there's no mention of this on Steele's Web site. I'm sure it's just an oversight, although I guess it's possible that Steele's merry band of lunatics have enough sense to realize that an endorsement from Tyson is about as useful as one from a houseplant or a two-by-four.

Apparently not one to shy away from controversy, Nof says it's possible that our main man Jesus may not have walked on water back in the day. Nope, says Nof, he very well may have been walking on ice.

From LiveScience.com:

Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.

The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in northern Israel.

Uh oh. Somebody's about to have his name mentioned by people who have no chance at all of ever pronouncing it correctly.

Why are we wasting any time on this asshole?

More under the covers ...

"Who's going to replace the swing vote on the Big Court?" It's the kind of question that makes us progressives sweat bullets. Alberto the Torture King? Brother Jeb? John Ashcroft? Katherine Harris? John Bolton? Prince Bandar? The guy who shows up at all those funerals with the "God Hates Fags" sign? The possibilities are endless. After all, this is Dubya we're talking about. At this point, I wouldn't totally rule out Sean Hannity or Toby Keith.

But worry not, fellow progressives. BushCo will definitely appoint a moderate. It's in the bag. Here's why.

Realizing that it just isn't civilized to settle an election with a good game of rock-paper-scissors or with a mud wrestling extravaganza, the Groveland city council went for the old standby: the common coin toss.

Call it in the air, my friends.

888-610-8170

You know, you can find numerous examples of voter fraud right on the front page of this very site. I strongly suggest you give that toll-free number a call and let them know about these examples of flagrant voter fraud. Read them entire stories. Read the whole flyers to them. I'm sure they'd love to sift through hundreds of messages tomorrow morning about their own fraudulent voter-repression efforts.

Read the entire endorsement here.

The full column is posted below the split, but if you check it out here on their Web site and click on a couple of those Google text ads, I may actually get to keep my job. <wink>

Not like it pays well, but still.

Clearly, the idea here is to take the most outlandish, fearful lie possible and subject comparatively uneducated people to it in an effort to scare the piss out of them. Maybe the DNC should flood West Virginia with a mailer saying, "George W. Bush is going to kill your grandma" because of his position on stem-cell research. Or how about, "Republicans want to touch your penis" with pictures of Ed Schrock. Or why not just go with, "NAMBLA Endorses Former Member Bush"? Why even try linking the story with fact? That's the way they always do it.

Yeah, I'm kidding. I think.

Freep the article, by the way. You know the drill. Don't let this swill get high ratings.

Houston is the seventh-largest market in the United States, and KPRC is consistently that market's top-rated talk or news-talk station. So when some candy-ass Clear Channel pencil-pusher (or, more likely, the people above him on the power chain) decide a guy who's been at CBS News for 42 years isn't singing the Repug talking points with enough enthusiasm, they shit on him and accuse him of trying to be the news. How double cute.

And yes, Clear Channel owns KPRC. And yes, KPRC also airs Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Matt Drudge. And yes, KPRC seems to be quite eager to show their support for Chicken George — and their lack of support for John Kerry.

Personally, I believe -- and have for some time -- that Schultz has the chops to be the closest thing we're going to get to a Lefty Limbaugh. He's broadcasting out of North Dakota, right there in the heartland, and he strikes listeners as both a regular guy and as a hell-fire radio type.

Anyway, I tried transcribing what he said during the rant, and I probably caught about half of it. Check it out below:

For anyone who (like me) has been talking about how the political left could use a Drudge Report equivalent, I suggest you check out The Times-Patriot and visit it regularly. It's a small publication run by a guy in California and could use your help, so please consider clicking on a couple of the Google ads while you're there — especially any that appear to support Chicken George, since that means pro-Bush people are stuck paying a liberal website a tiny bit of cash. Haw haw haw.

OK, the commercial is over. Here's the meat:

You know, maybe it wouldn't feel so dirty if Bush actually attempted to hide his corruption.

Notice, by the way, that Kerry's comments declaring Bush an unfit leader have found their way into this article. This is a very good sign.

Tune in now if you're interested.

The station, which broadcasts on the 1230 frequency (WCOL-AM) and had been airing rock oldies, will carry Al Franken, Randi Rhodes (only one hour of her program), Janeane Garofalo and "Morning Sedition" from AAR and Ed Schultz and the soon-to-debut Stephanie Miller from Jones Radio Networks. The new station is billing itself as "AM 1230 Progressive Talk: Talk radio for the rest of Columbus."

The blurb is available here, but registration (and a tolerance for really bad Web design) is required.