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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: June 2009
Not Another Bush
Obama made lots of progressives angry when he decided to keep the idea of military commissions. But his commissions will be a little different: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has determined that detainees tried by military commissions in the U.S. … Continue reading
Print is Dead: Linking Edition
Richard Posner advocates an incredibly stupid idea: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to … Continue reading
Behold These Devils
Joe the Plumber called for the lynching of Senator Chris Dodd the other day — and he was the moderate in the room. Christopher Magiera of Wausau, a board member of Americans for Prosperity and a local political activist, said … Continue reading
Bachmann Crazy Counter™ at 104,000
As I said before, I’m working on some widgets to automate tracking Newt Gingrich’s Wacky™, Michelle Bachmann’s Crazy™, and Dana Rohrbacher’s Stupid™. Here are some current statistics: 1) The name ‘Newt Gingrich’ combined with the word ‘wacky’ returns 24,800 hits … Continue reading
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: Any scheme of political control requires an enduring fear. The end of the world need not occur; the point is to continue expecting it, no matter how many centuries pass in expectation, to maintain fear of “the … Continue reading
Anna Nichole Smith Still Dead, Sources Say
JUST LOOK AT THIS CRAP! Okay, I get it. Michael Jackson is dead. That’s obviously more important than the news coming out of Iran, spineless and/or corrupt senators quietly spiking the health care bill, the newest revelations from the Nixon … Continue reading
Iran’s Youth Challenge
As I’ve said before, what we’re seeing in Iran is not a new revolution but the long-delayed continuation of the old one. From HuffPo: Since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution thirty years ago, Iran has asked many sacrifices of … Continue reading
Rohbacher Stupid Statistic™
First came the Newt Gingrich Wacky Tracker™, followed by the Bachmann Crazy Counter™. Now I need to develop a third widget for this nut: Is it just me, or does Dana Rohrbacher just have a special kind of oral diarrhea … Continue reading
Sanford Admits Affair
From ABC: Apologizing profusely to his staff, family and friends for disappearing unexpectedly, a teary-eyed South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said he had been “unfaithful” and admitted affair with a woman in Argentina. “I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford … Continue reading
Sanford’s Great Escape (UPDATE)
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford hasn’t been seen since last Thursday. After much to-do and speculation, his office said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail and didn’t wish to be disturbed. That only brought further ballyhooing from some who pointed … Continue reading
