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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: May 2009
Japan Apologizes for Bataan
From ABC: The Japanese ambassador to the United States apologized in person today to the 73 surviving POWs of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in April 1942 during World War II. “We extend a heartfelt apology for our … Continue reading
Write Night
I’m taking the weekend off to work on that much-neglected novel.
Levin Blasts Cheney
Via DailyKos: Levin comes as close as I’ve heard to calling Cheney a liar. Indeed, I really wish that un-PC word would break out of its little cage and splash all over the MSM at some point. But I’m not … Continue reading
George’s Legacy
The Decider came out of his hidey-hole yesterday evening to defend his record on torture: “The first thing you do is ask, what’s legal?” he said. “What do the lawyers say is possible? I made the decision, within the law, … Continue reading
John Bolton: Some Follow-up Questions
Neocons will keep crawling out from under their rocks for years to come. Each has their own motive; Cheney, for instance, just wants to stay out of jail. But John Bolton, Bush’s strange choice of Ambassador to the United nations, … Continue reading
Minimum Wage
Popular wisdom will tell you that an increase in the minimum wage is bad for the economy. That view is propagated by Economics 101 professors, but it’s based only on theory — there’s absolutely no hard data to back it … Continue reading
Video Is Dead
NBC President Jeff Zucker: (The) initial idea of Hulu was to not suffer the fate music suffered. We had the same feeling as News Corp., and that’s why we came together. We wanted to create one aggregation site “that trained … Continue reading
Waterboard Hannity!
So even after the Mancow video, Sean Hannity still won’t call waterboarding “torture:” Keith Olbermann shouldn’t let Hannity off the hook anymore. In fact, it’s time for a national website: “WATERBOARDHANNITY.com” to raise money for soldier’s charities in the event … Continue reading
Virtual Reality Living (for QT)
Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the present now controls the future. Who controls the present now? So what’s the future going to be like? All I have … Continue reading
Tucker Carlson Going Online
Via Jamie at IntoxiNation, we learn that Tucker Carlson now wants to be the new Arianna Huffington. Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and “adding facts to the conversation.” [...] Carlson, … Continue reading
