In a recent Fox News poll, when asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent said President Obama while 58 percent said former President George W. Bush; 9 percent blame both of them.

Even though it came out last summer, it’s perfect for Halloween. Everybody get ready to SCREECH like Glenn Beck like a vampire.

The New Scientist magazine has created a timeline that traces the evolution of the H1N1 influenza from its beginnings in 1889 through September 2009.

His spokesman claims it was just a weird coincidence, but it’s hard to ignore the not-so-subliminal message.

And one of the things we will do when we’re one nation is to end the moral outrage of 44 million people without health insurance in the richest country in the world, 9 million children whose parents can’t take them to the doctor when they get sick ’cause they can’t pay the bill. I’m gonna do that, and also help the millions who have insurance that can’t pay it, by creating national health insurance pools like the ones members of Congress get our insurance from.

— Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), during his run for president in 2004 — as a Democrat — when he supported a public option as part of any health care reform effort, TPM reports.

Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies – those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention.” – Miss Wasilla, Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin.

If Dick Cheney can support marriage, so can every senator. So can every Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative. Equality should know no bounds, and we must not rest until we have marriage in all fifty of these United States.

— Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), speaking at a fundraising dinner in support of gay marriage.

The InterWeb is full of lists these days. Seems that making lists has become the substitute for critical thinking. Plus, it appeals to readers’ sense of What’s in it for me?