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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
A New (Old) Smear and the Three Laws of Paranoia
It took all of about five minutes for the cyberspace tinfoil-hat brigade to mutter the names of David Kellerman and Vince Foster in the same breath. Just twelve hours later, I found a comment on another blog (I won’t link … Continue reading
The Torture of Rush Limbaugh
My latest short story, The Torture of Rush Limbaugh, is up. As always, I do not make a pretense of being ‘neutral’ when I write fiction. My stories always have an agenda and I freely admit it. My agenda with … Continue reading
Video of the Day
Hillary lays the smackdown:
Breaking News for Wingnuts!
Let the Piltdown politics begin! From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – The chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide. David Kellermann, … Continue reading
Letter to the Times Daily
This letter to the editor ran today. Apparently, new ownership does not mean editors read their email; I amended the letter, but they printed the first version sent ten minutes prior. Such is life in picayune towns. To the Editor: … Continue reading
Torture Serves Politics, not Intelligence
From McClatchy, via HuffPo: “There were two reasons why these interrogations were so persistent, and why extreme methods were used,” the former senior intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. “The main one is that … Continue reading
Write Night
I’m taking the night off of the heavy blogging to finish a short story. Working title: “The Torture of Rush Limbaugh”
The Smoking Memo
From HuffPo tonight: Philip Zelikow, a longtime diplomat who worked as counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, has been forthright in his opposition to the harsh interrogation techniques used … Continue reading
Republicans Hate Grandma
The GOP’s answer to their political irrelevance? Disenfranchise someone, of course: Republican legislative leaders have lost all sense of shame with their 11th-hour bill to roll back voting rights in Florida. The legislation is so disgraceful it is no wonder … Continue reading
