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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: November 2009
Sarahpalooza!
Make no mistake, this is what the beginning of the race for the 2012 GOP nomination looks like:
Decline of Empires
This is what I love about animation software: there are whole new ways to look at something — in this case, the decline of empires.
Saturday Afternoon TV
Episode Six of The Day The Universe Changed: Episode 9, Making Waves
When You’ve Run Out Of Good Ideas
Charles Quackhammer can’t help himself, repeating every last worn-out and debunked argument against the Senate health care reform bill. The Republican noise machine is only fooling itself anymore: the best fake poll result Rasmussen can come up with is that … Continue reading
Contracts and ACORN
So the wingnutosphere has its panties all twisted over the news that the Department of Justice has ruled the Obama administration must continue to pay ACORN for services rendered under contract. To be clear, this is the DoJ answering a … Continue reading
K-Street’s Defense
So I was reading to the end of the Washington Post article about Obama kicking 60,000 lobbyists off of government advisory panels when I found the defense the lobbying industry offers: But lobbyists and many of the businesses they represent … Continue reading
Alabama’s Annual Archaeism
Despite its reputation as the buckle of the Bible Belt, Alabama’s de facto state religion is college football. Today will see the ritual battle of our two main denominations in what has come to be known as the “Iron Bowl.” … Continue reading
209 Pages
Remember all those Republicans and Blue Dogs hefting health care legislation in the air to emphasize its weight? Once you stop enlarging the print and double-spacing it, the Senate health care reform bill comes in at just 209 pages. Both … Continue reading
Rahm Emmanuel
May 15th, 2007: Rahm Emmanuel stakes out a gun control position on middle ground. It strikes me that Emmanuel understands consensus politics perfectly well.
CNN: Celebrity Noise and Nonsense
Alex Castellanos is an evil genius in the politics of division. He’s also going to remain a regular CNN talking head while advising the Republican National Committee at the same time. Believe it or not, CNN is okay with this: … Continue reading
