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Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...05/04/12 6:55 pm
"All men are created equal... Sam Colt made them that way." Great stuff.Re: Morning Awful: God Says Beat Your Kids Straight
05/03/12 4:45 pm
Hey, great advice. Make absolutely certain your children grow up in a constant state of seething rage and resentment. What could possibl...Re: Morning Awful: God Says Beat Your Kids Straight
05/03/12 1:08 pm
The only reason I entertain speculation about Limbaugh's sexuality is that it fits the pattern of the homophobic authoritarian. Expect more...Re: Morning Awful: God Says Beat Your Kids Straight
05/03/12 8:46 am
I read and hear things. Saw once where this Baptist preacher got in some trouble for liking young boys just a little TOO much. There's th...
Monthly Archives: November 2008
The Legend of Grandpa
This is the eulogy I read at my grandfather’s funeral two years ago. There’s no need to embellish the life of John R. Allison. He did so much. He arrived in Japan in 1945 as a lieutenant with an accounting … Continue reading
Saxby Chambliss is a Sack of Sh-t
Not content with sitting out the Vietnam War and then getting into office by smearing a disabled Vietnam war hero, Saxby Chambliss has consistently fought against health care for veterans, armor for troops, and the new GI Bill. In a … Continue reading
Prince George’s Legacy
Apologies to A. A. Milne Prince George was not a good man —And in his latter days,World leaders did not shake his hand,Much to his amaze.At G-20 meetings,When lining up on stage,They whispered of his ruined brand,And did not offer … Continue reading
Bush and the SOFA
The Decider was in such a hurry to complete a Status Of Forces Agreement with Iraq that he made some major concessions. Actually, he kind of conceded the whole War on Terror thing. In what has to be the strangest … Continue reading
Letter to the Times Daily
Printed in the Times Daily today: To the Editor: Among Pastor Kincaid’s listed reasons for not voting for Barack Obama, printed here last Friday, was this gem: “When Barack Obama said that he was proud America is no longer a … Continue reading
Goodbye, Scott
The summer of 2004 was hot. Alabama hot. Sweltering when it’s not baking. The kind of hot that has the mosquitoes sneaking indoors just for the air conditioning. Even the hardiest types never go outdoors until sundown in that kind … Continue reading
China May Buy GM if We Don’t
Yesterday I made the unthinkable suggestion that Congress should buy the Big Three automakers instead of bailing them out or letting them go into bankruptcy. Today, Emptywheel over at FiredogLake points out that Chapter 11 probably won’t work in the … Continue reading
Don’t Bail Out Detroit. Buy It
Regular readers know my penchant for counter-intuitive thinking. Contrast the prospect of a $25-50 billion bailout of the auto industry with the market capitalization of all three automakers put together: about seven billion. That’s right — put together, the Big … Continue reading
Timeline: 2011
The Iraqi Parliament will vote on a security deal with the United States that requires full withdrawal of US troops by the end of 2011. It’s not precipitous, but the deal would put American troops inside bases after next year. … Continue reading
The Troll Song
I hate trolls. No, that’s not strong enough… I despise comment trolls with the white-hot intensity of a thousand burning suns. Few things actually propel me to murderous intention. Comment trolling is one of them. Today, a comment troll popped … Continue reading →