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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: 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
