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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
Anatomy of a Nontroversy
First, the video; in which Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney asks Obama a rather tough question at the press conference today: Politico’s Ben Smith posted the following paragraph on his blog after the presser: The high-profile the administration is giving the … Continue reading
The Public Option
Lee Stranahan has a great way to help save the public option: Unless there is a public option in the health care bill, there is no point in having a health care bill at all. Which is why the insurance … Continue reading
PANIC! at the Movies
Look out! Disaster looms! The end is nigh! For those unfamiliar with the subject, the Mayan calendar supposedly ends on December 21st of 2012, which means the world is going to end in some terrible cosmic disaster just four days … Continue reading
Iran: a Tipping Point?
An amazing day in Iran, wasn’t it? If you’ve kept up with Nico Pitney’s amazing liveblog at HuffPo, then you already know there was a scuffle at the Majlis (parliament) in Tehran over attacks by the volunteer Basij (morals police), … Continue reading
Bachmann Crazy Counter™
Michele Bachmann needs a Crazy Counter™ widget. In case you haven’t heard, she’s in her crazy-mind about the 2010 Census: “I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home,” … Continue reading
Divide and Conquer
From Global Post: KABUL — Moderate leaders of the Taliban say they have quietly and steadily made progress in third-party talks between the active Taliban insurgency and representatives of the Afghan and U.S. governments. Two Taliban leaders — who held … Continue reading
Sarah Palin’s Base
Yesterday, fifteen protesters showed up to denounce David Letterman’s joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter (the nineteen-year old, not the fourteen-year old). Palin’s political base was on full display: The best way to counter this kind of Crazy™ is to give … Continue reading
Mapping the GOP
From the true story files: I’m a political geography nut because of Dr. Green. He was a ‘blue dog’ Democrat with great, big paintings of donkeys in his office. One day he held up a map of Alabama that showed … Continue reading
Iran: Cleric Denounces Election
From McClatchy DC: “No one in their right mind can believe” the official results from Friday’s contest, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said of the landslide victory claimed by Ahmadinejad. Montazeri accused the regime of handling Mousavi’s charges of fraud … Continue reading
Amateur Torture
The US Army has no MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) code for ‘translator.’ Only after a soldier finishes the grueling Basic Arabic Course at the Defense Language Institute (and that’s a big ‘if,’ since the course has a 38% graduation rate) … Continue reading
Death of a Lyric
It’s the end of a lyric. Barry Beckett, founding member of the session band The Swampers, died last Thursday. Millions of people have loved his music for four decades without ever knowing who he was, even when Lynrd Skynrd sang … Continue reading
