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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: March 2009
The One They Didn’t Print
Perhaps not surprisingly, the Times Daily didn’t run my response to this tinfoil-hat hackery. To the Editor: Lawrence Swift blames a “shallow, misinformed and apathetic citizenry” for “acquiescence in the face of egregious usurpations of power.” For “shallow, misinformed and … Continue reading
Why the GOP is Losing It
The Party of Ideas isn’t really out of ideas. They’re just doubling down on the crazy ones: Their budget ‘proposal’ amounted to a quasi-flat tax. Income would be taxed at ten percent to $100,000 and all income above that would … Continue reading
Saturday Morning Cartoon
looney tunes – rabbit fire
Sarah Palin’s Lost Cause
Sarah Palin was all over the cable news channels today inaugurating a new Lost Cause mythology to explain November’s electoral defeat: What do I mean by “Lost Cause?” Well, in America the best example is the southern mythology popularized in … Continue reading
Hostile Birthing: the Quiverfull Movement
I’ve written before about the largely-Protestant Quiverfull Movement, which has some ideas about family size that would make the Pope happy. NPR’s Morning Edition ran a radio article about them this morning laying out the hostile theology at the heart … Continue reading
Weekly World: Global Currency?
Hey, I’ve managed to do this two weeks in a row, which means it’s turning into a (gasp!) regular feature! We’ll start off the global news with China, a country that’s getting tired of financing the United States public debt: … Continue reading
Saturday Morning Cartoon
I was actually looking for this just a year ago and found it quite accidentally today through Chez Pazienza’s blog:
Deep Capture
From Deep Capture, this video does a better job of explaining what happened to the financial system than I could ever do: Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown from Judd Bagley on Vimeo.
