Back to life, back to reality.

Tonight on The Daily Show: Richard Bitner, author of Confessions of a Subprime Lender. Tonight on The Colbert Report: Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA). Tonight's Sausage Grinder of Snark setting: exhausted.

Those of you who were unable to be here have been crying for photos, descriptions, liveblogging, video, and all sorts of other fun stuff. I aim to please. Make the jump and I'll share photos from the last couple days.

Howdy y'all. It's 11:50PM Central time, 12:50AM my time. I was going to come up here and go to bed after a long day of hobnobbing with famous people here in Austin, but I don't really feel like going to bed. So I'm going to post random thoughts about Netroots Nation, and maybe some other Austin-going Kossacks will chime in, but more than likely this diary will sink like a stone never to be seen again.

FLIP.

Hey everybody--I've had a hectic day, so I don't have much planned. Whoever said it was a good idea for me to work a ten hour day on the Monday following a holiday weekend (at the beginning of the month, no less)...well, you're not my friend anymore. So you guys are pretty much on your own, content-wise. You don't mind, do you? No one ever reads the diary anyway, right?

(Casual observation to make tonight's intro longer: today is 7.7.08, so anyone that got married on the lucky 7.7.07 last year, Happy Anniversary. Anyone want to take bets on how many couples didn't make it?)

(Note: Hola, Grinderinos! Once again ek did all the heavy lifting and I get all the glory. And as meticulous as our beloved ek is, the HTML he emailed to me was borked and I have no idea how to fix it, so no fancy Hypnotoad table for you. And as much as I'm inclined to add a poll, I will defer to ek and leave you poll-less. Rules is rules, you know.)

Ersatz (adj.)- a cheap imitation of inferior quality.

Welcome to your ersatz The Daily Show/The Colbert Report Spoiler and Chat Thread.

(Read the first two paragraphs of the body, plzthx.)

Ersatz (adj.)- a cheap imitation of inferior quality.

Welcome to your ersatz The Daily Show/The Colbert Report Spoiler and Chat Thread.

Just another Manic Monday...

And while we all could use some comic relief, Jon and Stephen somehow think they're entitled to a summer vacation. Bastards. So we're in reruns for the next two weeks.

Tonight's TDS rerun is from June 18 and features Daily Show alum and Get Smart star Steve Carell. Our fearless leader TiaRachel was eating flourless torte with famous people that evening, but her original thread is here.

Tonight's TCR rerun is from June 19 and features Bishop N.T. Wright. He wrote some book. Religion...zzzzz. TiaRachel's original bloggy goodness is here.

FLIP!

(cross-posted in a slightly different format at MichiganLiberal.)

I'm sitting in the Café of the Barnes and Noble on 28th St. in Grand Rapids, MI recovering and recaffeinating my body after surviving a hectic and wonderful day yesterday.

I have to be honest: I'm a homosexual, but I'm a fairly conservative homosexual. I didn't acknowledge my sexuality publicly until I was 22. My friends and I were planning a trip to see a Stephen Lynch concert in Pontiac, and we were discussing the merits of Lynch's act. We acknowledged that he's a good singer and that he's hilarious, and then I just blurted out, "He's hot, too!" In any event, I've only been to the gay bar in Muskegon 4-5 times, and drag queens still make me nervous. I only came out at work about six months ago. I've never had a boyfriend. I'm 26, and yesterday was my first Pride.

I learned a lot yesterday. I learned a lot about life, about people, and about the Gay Agenda. I initially tagged along expecting fun and games, but yesterday turned out to be an educational experience.

Join me over the flip and find out what I learned.

Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds has declared that the Michigan state law that created the January 15th primary fiasco is unconstitutional.

http://www.detnews.com/...

Evening, everybody.

We're still in reruns.

Tonight's TDS rerun is from March 20 and features Alex Kingsbury, an associate editor at US News and World Report.

Tonight's TCR rerun is also from March 20, and features Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway.

The original thread is here.

Good evening ladies and germs!

Unfortunately, Jon and Stephen are holed up in an undisclosed location this week (I'm not sure where, but I'll bet there are cabana boys) and not doing shows.

Our fearless leader, the spectaculariffic TiaRachel, is resting her weary fingers, so you're stuck with me.

Flip it. Come on. You know you want to.

*sigh*

Reruns, reruns and more reruns.

One thing that wasn't a rerun tonight was the lunar eclipse. If you're lucky enough to live somewhere where it was visible, I hope you had a chance to see it. I watched it out my driver's side window on my drive home tonight. Sadly, Mother Nature doesn't have TiVo yet (although with all these reruns my TiVo is kinda empty right now.)

Anyway...

Tonight's your chance to re-watch Jon's takedown of Bill Kristol. Stephen's got Dr. Mark Moffatt, aka Dr. Bugs.

Overzealous meta-ranting over the flip...

Evening, everybody...

The Oscars are next weekend and our boy Jon is hosting, so the shows are in reruns. (Jon's working the Oscars, but Stephen's just off this week...lucky him!) In any event...

Tonight's TDS features Tim Gunn, author of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style. TCR has Tony Campolo, author of Adventures in Missing the Point and Jacob Weisberg, author of The Bush Tragedy. These are reruns of the shows that aired on February 4th, before the strike was settled, so it's up to you whether or not you want to watch. Hey, it's your conscience. Me, I've got other stuff to do...

What's Your Fucking Problem was founded on December 16, 2003 by former Daily Kos frontpager Theoria as a place for Kossacks to come and complain about what's bothering them. Theoria has long since passed on to the Great Pixellated Beyond, and the torch was eventually passed to pastordan, then to Elizabeth D (who has also vanished into the Bloggy Deep), and finally to you, the Daily Kos Community. It's our place to cuddle up on a Saturday night and commiserate about the week that was, or at least give us a good explanation as to why you're home blogging on a Saturday evening.

WYFP is also the only community diary series other than Mojo Friday where it's considered above board to beg for recommends. As Elizabeth D would say, won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending? It's also considered good form to sprinkle recommends (or 4s, as we called them back in the Good Ole Days) on your fellow Kossacks, so don't be stingy with the mojo.

(Also available in blue.)

Very early this morning as I was doing research for my Wednesday morning turn at posting Coffee Talk at MichiganLiberal.com (analogous to the dKos Mid-Day Open Thread, but posted at the ungodly hour of 7:30AM), I was clicking through the Grand Rapids Press section of MLive.com. The article was about the Michigan/Florida primary boondoggle and how that all may have to be straightened out in light of the tight race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The paragraph said:

Beyond Michigan and Florida, they could hold the nomination in their grasp. Michigan's super delegates include Granholm, Levin and fellow Sen. Debbie Stabenow, six members of Congress, 17 state members of the Democratic National Committee and two members to be chosen in May. There are no DNC members from west of Lansing.

That last line floored me.

Yeah, that's right. Tia's gone again, so you're stuck with me. Tough beans. She'll be back tomorrow, and you can regale her with tales of what a dingus I am...

:-)

Our fearless leader, the inimitable TiaRachel, is down for the count with Ye Olde Creeping Crud...so you're stuck with me. I'm not as good at this as she is, so bear with me.

Below the fold you'll find some entertaining stuff to get you through your WGA-strike-induced stupor. My comment thread is your playground. And Rachel, if you're out there, may the antibodies be with you!