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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
Programming Note
I’m still not fully satisfied by this website. Because I wasn’t serious before about blogging, there is a lot left undone. I’m taking care of some of those things tonight. In the meantime, here’s a video Shell Oil Co. is … Continue reading
Another True Story
This is my 300th blog post since I came to Blogger. Woot! Let’s hear it for 300… Ahem…actually, for this three-hundredth blog, I would like to apologize to the blogosphere. I’ve waited more than seven years to write this. That’s … Continue reading
Dear Anonymous,
There’s a reason I’ve removed The Torture of Rush Limbaugh from the website: it’s currently being put on the market. However, I do have a PayPal donations widget. So anyone who wants to read The Torture of Rush Limbaugh can … Continue reading
Memorial Day Blog
Believe it or not, I was very nearly a statistic in the War on Terror. Except that there was no ‘War on Terror’ at the time. In 1997, I was deploying to Kuwait with more than 300 other soldiers on … Continue reading
Dear Wal-Mart:
Do you know your enemy? Green Day – New Music – More Music Videos Wal-Mart, I wish I could quit you. Yes, I understand that you have the right to sell only what you want to. I understand your business-model … Continue reading
The Week In Torture (UPDATE)
Really, isn’t it time for a magazine yet? “Torture Weekly” could run competing op-eds on a different question every week: is torture justified? Should we investigate torture? And of course: is waterboarding torture? For one talk radio blowhard, the answer … Continue reading
The Truth About Health Care
For those who don’t know, until this week I worked for a large national company in a call center. Most of the calls I took dealt with prescriptions in one form or another. Since the health care debate is heating … Continue reading
Every Word a Lie, Part 2
McClatchy newspapers might be the only real journalism left: WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense Thursday of the Bush administration‘s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements. Even if McClatchy is willing to print the … Continue reading
Cutting Off Debate
Dana Rohrbacher (R-Bizzaroworld) doesn’t think it’s time to cut off debate on global warming: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy To hear a person describe themselves as “someone who’s willing to speak the truth … Continue reading
Biographical Quote
DANIEL GILES/TimesDaily “Call me a traitor, tell me to shut up and sit silent while the republic is ruined, and I’ll show you the symbol of freedom located between my index and ring fingers. And I will be anything but … Continue reading
Every Word a Lie
Dick Cheney today: The interrogations were used on hardened terrorists after other efforts failed. They were legal, essential, justified, successful, and the right thing to do. The intelligence officers who questioned the terrorists can be proud of their work and … Continue reading
