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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: 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
