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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
The Week in Eliminationism
All that love and forgiveness stuff? That’s the old Christianity. Jesus no longer saves — he kills. This, according to Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona: Mind you, this is nothing new for the … Continue reading
Health Care Reform and Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Really, it must be true because I read it on the internet! Here’s the backstory from Salon: Officials at the Centers for Disease Control, showing touching naiveté about the current political environment, are weighing an initiative to encourage male circumcision, … Continue reading
The Week In Torture
Former Vice President Dick Cheney had been so very quiet lately. Then last week, the two reports he claimed would vindicate him were released, and Cheney resurfaced with a slightly different story: Mind you, this “appearance” of effective torture has … Continue reading
Headline of the Week
Banter Media’s own Bob Cesca was recognized on Rachel Maddow’s show last night for the headline of his weekly Huffington Post article: Couldn’t happen to a better, more generous blogger.
Steele Argues With Himself
Until yesterday, I had been waiting in vain to hear anyone from the MSM question the basic premise of Republican fearmongering over Medicare reform. It finally happened, and Michael Steele was caught with his mental pants around his rhetorical ankles. … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Fiasco
There are fails, and then there is the rarefied realm of fiasco. No, Glenn. There are TWO letters missing…C? Adding: Media Matters has a great article up tying Beck’s insanity to Alex Jones.
Teabag Tide Turning?
Astoundingly, real questions about the health care system are beginning to break through the insanity and enter the public consciousness: Even Michele Bachmann got demands to shut up about the tinfoil hat-stuff and start answering questions on, you know, health … Continue reading
Teh Evil Plan™ Revealed
Teh Evil Plan™ advances rapidly! Our sinister agenda of advancing worldwide socialism, forced gay marriage, and mandatory abortion has kids being indoctrinated in the dastardly arts of summer camp counseling and neighborhood cleanup. Our final solution for free market litter … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Fail
I have news for Glenn Beck: he’s still a lying dirtbag, no matter what channel he’s on or what tie he wears. He sounds resigned to getting booted from Faux Noise; if so, then I’m glad I bothered to call … Continue reading
On Huffington Post
Monday night’s piece on Parker Griffith’s town hall is my first article at Huffington Post!
