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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: 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
