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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: February 2009
Alabama Constitutional Reform: a Suggestion
I had a driveway moment today listening to NPR’s All Things Considered. Alabama rarely gets national media exposure, so very few Americans have heard about our uniquely racist state constitution. It’s a pleasure to hear national media affirm what a … Continue reading
Last Stand of the Culture Warriors
Politico.com covered House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) giving a speech about bipartisanship at a Georgetown University forum today. Hoyer said that if Republicans could write half of every bill that would be “the kind of bipartisanship that would make … Continue reading
Print is Dead
Print is dead. Long live the internet.
Zero Cred
Bob Cesca nailed the meme down when he declared that Republicans have Zero Cred on the economy. Today, he offers this astute summary of the GOP’s hypocritical turn now that they have become a weak minority party: They’re screaming about … Continue reading
Blaming Americans
Humans are not naturally inclined to borrowing. If we were, then most Americans would have fifty credit cards, five homes, and seventeen cars by now. In the heady days before the credit crunch, parking lots would host fleets of vehicles … Continue reading
Accountability
Remember all those billion$ overpaid in Iraq with absolutely no oversight? The Medicare Part D bill that was more expensive than advertised? Or the bridge to nowhere? Take a wild guess how well the outgoing Bush administration accounted for the … Continue reading
Globalization in a Photo
This might be one of the best visual aids I’ve ever had for the subject of Globalization. It’s part of an online collection by Russian photographer Petrosian: Notice the high-tech bridge being assembled. Such suspension bridges are everywhere these days, … Continue reading
Cult of Life
There’s a scene in And the Band Played On in which a CDC researcher asks a woman whether her husband ever had sex with another man. The husband lies dying of AIDS in the next room. It is early in … Continue reading
