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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: April 2009
Torture Documentary
An excellent overview of the Bush years and torture, from LinkTV.
Embracing Teh Wacky™
Teh Wacky™ (n): mainstream figures adopting fringe ideas in pursuit of press attention, esp. while waging culture war. Since when do robbers target their victims for kidnapping, transport them to the middle of nowhere, and beat them to death? On … Continue reading
Only The Teabaggers Remain
They say that vengeance is a dish best served cold. Anger at the 1994 defection of Senator Richard Shelby, R-AL, from the Democratic Party — first in a series of such defections during Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution — has had … Continue reading
Imprecatory Prayers
H/t to Jesus’ General: Almighty God, today we pray imprecatory prayers from Psalm 109 against the enemies of religious liberty, including Barry Lynn and Mikey Weinstein, who recently issued a press release attacking me personally. God, do not remain silent, … Continue reading
Print is Dead
The internet is dead. Long live print (on the internet).
Paranoiac Epidemiology
A sampling of swine flu-related tinfoil-hattery from MediaMatters:
Conservatives and Irony
I have long held that ideological conservatives lack a sense of irony. Proof comes today from Ohio State University, which found that conservatives don’t ‘get’ the Colbert Report: (W)e found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert’s political … Continue reading
Weekly World News: Pirates and Pandemics
A woman called me at work tonight because she had bought Tamiflu to attend her brother’s wedding in Mexico. The bride had just postponed the event out of fear for her family’s safety; my caller wanted to know if she … Continue reading
Swine Flu Republicans
How can a political party be so consistently wrong about everything? Markets are reacting badly to the threat of pandemic. Guess what? Plagues are bad for business! But only a liberal socialist fellow-traveling ivory-tower egghead would have the foresight to … Continue reading
Guest Blog
I went back to my friend Cooper’s website the other day and rediscovered this gem. Cooper is among my oldest friends. He’s a former Marine and a shooting sports enthusiast who refuses to get a regular blog in spite of … Continue reading
Torture For Charity
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy A gasbag talk show torture pimp living his rhetoric? Where have I imagined that before? My new short story, The Torture of Rush Limbaugh, is still available to … Continue reading
