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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: October 2009
Name That Cult
If you haven’t read my recent HuffPo piece on the Glenn Beck cult, why not? Go read it now. Seriously. I’ll wait. Done? Okay. So what should we call this new cult?
Google Earth Helps End Mountaintop Removal
This is a great video about the power of open technology platforms to empower citizens. Plus I have met Lorelei Scarbro, and she is teh awesome. What’s happening in Appalachia is a crime. There is no other word for the … Continue reading
Best Tweeter
Remember the guy who told you which movies to see? @ebertchicago now composes limericks and opines on media at his blog. Who will shamefully employ a ruseto lie and mislead and confuseand twist and distortand spin and contort?Why, none better … Continue reading
Crunchy Frog
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund keeps doing crackerjack work. Last night they posted an examination of how the credit rating agencies that helped create the financial crisis always escape responsibility for terrible advice: With help from two of the most … Continue reading
Cupcake Media
So Darth Cheney sent Mika Brzezinski some cupcakes after she questioned a Cheney defender on the previous morning’s show: Here is the “tirade” to which Cheney was responding: BRZEZINSKI: You really think is was a good idea for the former … Continue reading
Morning Awful
This guy does his own Mad Money rant on the economy. Your takeaway: the guy’s spouting paranoid nonsense but everything he complains about regarding the economy is completely true. Progressives need to get ahead of the outrage.
Why Lieberman Will Fail
I wish some enterprising journalist would ask Joe Lieberman why he wants to spend $100 billion extra on health care reform. This inconvenient fact has slipped by the media in Beltway Village, and like most facts it has a liberal … Continue reading
One Small Step To Mars
Successful launch of an Ares rocket. Way cheaper than a space shuttle, but all the press can talk about is whether Obama will keep the program: So that’s how we get to orbit. Here’s how we get further out: I … Continue reading
The Victim Card, or: Sauce For The Gander
Chris Weigant with another brilliant observation: You know, I find it highly amusing that Republicans — from Rush Limbaugh to Sarah Palin to Fox News — seem to be rediscovering a political tactic which has been all but discarded by … Continue reading
Poor Newt Gingrich
Newt had made moves to appeal to movement conservatives: converting to Catholicism, amping up the Wacky, and sending out fundraising letters. But his endorsement of a Republican against a conservative independent candidate in an obscure New York special election isn’t … Continue reading
