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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...
Yearly Archives: 2010
This Is Protest
Tea parties are but the latest manifestation of right wing reactionary organizing. No matter what label you put on the package, however, movement conservatism can never become more than a pale imitation of progressive organizing. You will not find the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Whiteout Conditions
As you may have noticed, there was a problem here over the weekend. It was my fault, and only fixed through the kind intervention of andrea_r, who is a Great Canadian. I’m currently making the template changes that would have … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Krampuses Amok
Leave it to the Germans to make Christmas freaking scary.
Idiocracy Advancing
Donna Ladd of Mississippi says it better than I have: Thus, to watch someone like Barbour–an educated man–stand up and play us against each other to build a voting base for corporate America turns my stomach.
Morning Awful: Jesus Doesn’t Get Health Care
Glenn Beck with an extra serving of stupid for Christmas: They view the Constitution as a living, breathing document that evolves. Well, okay… sounds like an interesting idea, but is that what our founding fathers had in mind? Dunno, Glenn. … Continue reading
The New Religion Of The Righteous
Mississippi has nowhere to go but up. And if we pull Barbour’s finger, he can maybe show us how much he cares about civil rights for Mississippians. A #1stAL hashtag follower tweeted me this Matt Yglesias find at TIME about … Continue reading
Netroots Failure
I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support the chairman, despite their preference … Continue reading
Morning Awful: A Long Way From Riverdance
Fact: Lord of the Dance was born out of Catholic dance censorship. The church decreed that movement of the arms was lascivious, so the pre-Christian Irish traditional style adapted: arm on hip, arm held in the air, feet in ecstatic … Continue reading
Operation Winter Soldier (UPDATE)
About two hundred and fifty people turned up in Washington DC’s Lafayette park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House last Thursday for mass civil disobedience. The 135 people arrested included Chris Hedges, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, as well … Continue reading
Holding Pattern
I’ve run into every conceivable problem on the way to getting the video done, so in the meantime here’s another Rumproast of the Hamsher set: Zandar has another great one.
