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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: September 2009
Riehl Suggests Sparkman Was Child Molester
Dan Riehl suggests that Bill Sparkman might have been a child molester: The condition of the body and his being naked also seems curious. Why strip someone down to their socks only to kill them? Finally Sparkman’s bio and work … Continue reading
Olympics Nontroversy
President Obama is flying to Denmark to lobby the International Olympic Committee to pick Chicago as the 2016 Summer Olympics venue? Must be time for a nontroversy! And indeed, Matt Drudge is always willing to oblige, with EXCLAMATION POINT! A … Continue reading
White Power March In Illinois
Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin ascribed racial motivations to the Belleville, Ill. bus beating — motivations denied by the local police. After whipping up all that nontroversy, both Malkin and Limbaugh can claim partial credit for a “white power” march … Continue reading
Bachmann Stops Mentioning Census
David Weigel was at a Michele Bachmann appearance in St. Louis this weekend to record her insanity. As he writes at the Washington Independent, her speech was filled with the usual ACORN-hysteria, anti-Islam rhetoric, and anti-globalist dog-whistles: Bachmann touched on … Continue reading
New Huffington Post Article
My new article, Passing Oceania, is up at Huffington Post. Enjoy and share often! I’m HALFWAY to $500 for investigative journalism with twelve days left — Click here to help!
How Do You Top A Boiled Frog?
The Glenn Beck fear factory at work: But really, what has got to be killing Beck right now is how to beat the boiling frog trick. Beck is first and foremost an entertainer, and entertainers must always top themselves. He … Continue reading
A Lynching In Kentucky
Bill Sparkman, US Census worker, was murdered by hanging sometime on September the eleventh. Suicide seems to have been ruled out. Sparkman was hardly the type to commit suicide. We know his enemies were few, and his reputation sterling. Authorities … Continue reading
Sunday Sermon: Fear of Change
Let us open with a hymn, courtesy of The Toadies: Please open your copies of Origin of Species to Chapter Nine, verse six: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It … Continue reading
Birthers Go Commercial
I caught this the other night. According to TPM, it’s playing in seven southern states: Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. TPM Muckraker has determined the commercial was co-produced by “Gary Kreep, executive director of the Ramona, CA-based … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV
A fairly good overview of classic TV show The Prisoner. The remake is due on AMC in November. By the way, you can click here to watch all 17 episodes of the original series for free or Click here to … Continue reading
