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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Bastard
Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABCSpewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.Little Chippy Saltsman loves that bastard Rush,Distributing a parody containing his fat fluff. oh! Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABCSpewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.Rush, the … Continue reading
Sex Ex Abstinence
Once in a while, two stories hit the news together and you wonder why they aren’t being told as one by the media. Today, those two stories are the birth of Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston and the results of a … Continue reading
Christmas Present to Myself
I’m giving myself a Christmas present this week: a vacation from blogging. It’s not that I’m tired of doing all the research, linking, writing, and coding. In fact, I like blogging for these very reasons. But there’s a monster growling … Continue reading
Torture Serves Politics, not Intelligence
Torture is wrong, and there ends the moral argument against it. For while this truth is unimpeachable, it doesn’t settle the matter. Humans do all kinds of wrong things for expedient reasons. Now that the Vice President has bluntly acknowledged … Continue reading
Parody Power
One of my favorite bloggers, Bob Cesca, has done me the tremendous honor of posting my song parody on his front page. For me, this is a bit like a nod from the Pulitzer committee. It’s not a prize, exactly, … Continue reading
Taint Funny, McGee!
As many bloggers have pointed out, Blagojevich’s crime isn’t what he was trying to do, but how he tried to do it. All politicians trade favors for support, but this was naked salesmanship. Blagojevich was trying to auction Obama’s Senate … Continue reading
The Other Shoe
There’s a joke they have told in Baghdad for a thousand years. It never gets old to them. It’s the tale of a man who came home to his apartment drunk every night. He would take off his shoes and … Continue reading
The Shoe Incident
Junior’s ‘legacy project’ was destroyed over the weekend by a pair of shoes. In case you’ve been living in a cave, here’s the video: There are some liberal bloggers out there expressing concern at the sight of such disrespect to … Continue reading
Dear Senator Shelby
Senator, you’ve been all over cable news lately. I’ve spotted your sound bites delivered from behind your microphone at Detroit bailout hearings. You’ve been waxing rhapsodic about the foreign auto plants in Alabama, and lecturing Detroit for not being innovative … Continue reading
Letter to the Times Daily
This letter ran today in the Times Daily. It’s a response to a classic of hooplehead wisdom from a Mr. Jimmy Wayne Cosby. (Don’t serial killers go by all three names?) Wayne Cosby has a habit of using the president-elect’s … Continue reading
