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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: August 2009
Interview With David Neiwart
David Neiwart talks about his book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right.
What’s Gov Got To Do With It?
Via Thump and Whip, Representative Olson (R-TX) tells a tearjerker of a story about the evils of socialized medicine. Except the government has nothing to do with the story. My favorite part? When one voice points out the contradiction, a … Continue reading
Racist Anti-Obama Bumper Sticker
Found by Shannyn Moore, better known as the Girl From Homer, for sale at an Alaska State Fair. Commenter Ron Toole sarcastically notes: “This bumper sticker obviously expresses their concern about rising deficits and taxes.” I recommend progressives buy these … Continue reading
Japan’s Election Has Eerie Similarity to 2008
This scenario sounds so familiar: The morning after a historic victory by Japan’s opposition party in national elections, pressure was already mounting Monday for quick, definitive action on a host of problems facing the country, with jump-starting the economy at … Continue reading
Uncertain Outcome for Afghan Election
The UN is tracking complaints in the Afghanistan vote, and the results are not encouraging: The complaints commission, which was partly appointed by the United Nations and includes Afghan and foreign members, said more allegations from polling day are still … Continue reading
ACORN: Because Words are Scary!
It isn’t just foreign words like madrassa or Obama or oligarhy (sic) that scare Glenn Beck fans, oh no. English words frighten them too. For example, there’s “acorn” — a perfectly harmless object that, pronounced in a breathless question, can … Continue reading
Why People Believe Glenn Beck
At Newsweek, Sharon Begley delves into the minds of those who believe crazy things about Obama and finds a phenomenon called motivated reasoning: “Rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief…people actually seek out … Continue reading
Pagan Cops Get Solstice Leave
Seriously? Yeah, Seriously: Pagan police officers in some areas are being allowed to take as many as eight days leave a year for events such as the summer solstice and Halloween. It comes after the Pagan Police Association was set … Continue reading
You’re Getting Reform
After they spent weeks complaining that they needed time to read the thousand-plus pages of H.R. 3200, Republicans have a new line: At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told Chickasha residents he does not need to … Continue reading
Worst Blogger
Ronald Bailey at Reason wins the prize this week for his response to a response. After Charles Krauthammer wrote of health care rationing as the inevitable result of reform, Ezra Klein responded thusly: “We ration. We ration. We ration. We … Continue reading
The Truth is Outsourced
Write it down. Say it out loud. Use it often. These are the four magic words every progressive needs to remember in an age of tinfoil-hat lunacy: The Truth is Outsourced. At the very time Glenn Beck is adopting the … Continue reading
