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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: 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
