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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: 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
