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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: January 2009
The Strange Story of Guy Hunt
Former Alabama governor Guy Hunt died yesterday. He was 75. In an odd convergence of history, his passing comes less than a day after Rod Blagojevich was impeached 59-0 by the Illinois Senate. For while countless press reports have mentioned … Continue reading
Dr. Suess: Good Bank, Bad bank
h/t The Big Picture: Good Bank, Bad Bank by Dr. Suess I’m joining the Krugman chorus. At this point, it’s time to nationalize the insolvent banks, sell off their assets, and let the market heal itself.
Passing Oceania
I am writing this blog into a Firefox extension. For those of you unfamiliar with Firefox, it’s an open-source web browser that lets me add functionalities at will through extensions and add-ons — little bits of software I download from … Continue reading
Letter to the Times Daily
To the Editor, Times Daily: According to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s website on Sunday January 23rd, the economy is just fine. “Thanks to Republican economic policies,” it says, “the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong.” Either … Continue reading
Giles Goat-Boy Arrested
KARAWA STATE, NIGERIA – Police Public Relations Officer Mr. Tunde Mohammed told journalists yesterday that a carjacker turned into a goat to escape arrest: (He) explained that men of a vigilance group in Anifowose Ipata/Oloje areas of the state capital … Continue reading
Let Them Eat Cake
So just days after Bank of America Corp. got another $25 billion bailout from the taxpayer, they used some of that money to hold a conference call with business leaders and conservative activists. The subject? How to stop America’s retail … Continue reading
Neocons Returned to the Fight
Fascinating reading in the WaPo today: President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and … Continue reading
Obama is Not Der Kommissar
There’s something of a mini-freak out going on over supposed backpedaling on torture by the Obama administration. The angst is entirely created by the MSM, which is promulgating the meme that Obama will just have to go back on this … Continue reading
No Flaws at All
Oh, listen, my wingnuts, a story you’ll hear.A song I will sing you; ’twill fill you with cheer.A charming young Bush-son was chosen one Fall,To bankrupt the country with no flaws at all. No flaws at all. No flaws at … Continue reading
