Jesse Singal

Score another one for the robots: Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy and could be used in ocean rescue and surveillance missions. In a study published this week in Smart Materials and Structures, scientists created […]

Today’s front-page New York Times article on the pro-gay-marriage movement’s evolving donor network is well worth a read: This emerging group of donors is not quite like any other fund-raising network that has supported gay-related issues over the past 40 years. They come from Hollywood, yes, but also from Wall Street and Washington and the […]

A month and a half ago I asked in this space whether “Obamacare” is really a derogatory term anymore, and several commenters pointed out that progressives had started to reclaim the word (as did Obama himself during one speech last year). Now, according to TPM, the Obama campaign has decided to fully embrace the Obamacare […]

Yawn: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich harshly criticized President Obama for commenting on Trayvon Martin’s race as he extended condolences to the 17-year-old shooting victim’s parents on Friday. Obama said, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” a remark that Gingrich said he found “disgraceful” and “appalling.” “What the president said, in […]

The GOP is a really fat guy named Hiram who is convinced that if he could only slim down, he could get his dream girl Stacey (young voters) to go out on a date to Outback Steakhouse with him (vote for him). And Stacey is, truth be told, occasionally tempted to bracket the visceral repulsion […]

Good night, washingtonmonthlonians. A pleasure as always.

Well this is original: By now, we all know President Obama is actually a fist-bumping Muslim socialist. But there’s another side to the president, as Republican Utah Senator Orrin Hatch pointed out today. Obama, he said, has traded in his hardhat for a “hipster fedora.” Hatch was speaking in Congress about energy policy, and accused […]

Part of me feels bad for liking this clip of President Obama talking NBA with Bill Simmons, like I’m buying into all the dumb “Who would you rather have a beer with?” stuff from the Bush elections, like I’m failing to acknowledge my own biases. But on the other hand, just watch it, and keep […]

The Blunt amendment is dead: WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday killed a Republican effort to let employers and health insurance companies deny coverage for contraceptives and other services to which they have religious or moral objections. The vote was 51 to 48. In effect, the Senate upheld President Obama’s birth control policy. The policy […]

Here’s the ad that the Emergency Committee for Israel, Bill Kristol’s right-wing Israel activism group, bought in today’s New York Times. First, I am shocked and saddened to hear that CAP, an organization I worked for for two years, is anti-Israel, though it does explain the mandatory jihadi-video-watching meetings that took place every Friday. Second, […]