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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: January 2010
More McCaskills Needed
Claire McCaskill is my dream Senator. Here she is just before the end of 2009: “I’m very frustrated with some of the habits around here,” she said. “What happens around here is that so many people are more focused on … Continue reading
Driving the Left to Distraction
Remember that budget panel? WASHINGTON (AP); The Senate has rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the deficit this year. The special deficit panel would have attempted to produce a plan … Continue reading
Breaking: James O’Keefe Arrested for Attempted Wiretapping of a Senator
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that James O’Keefe, the “filmmaker” responsible for the ACORN “sting” videos, was arrested by Federal Marshals yesterday after attempting to tap phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office — inside a federal building. Federal codes are … Continue reading
Teabaggers Fail
Sarah Palin is losing fans over her decision to campaign for John McCain’s reelection against tea party primary candidate J.D. Hayworth. The Nashville Tea Party Convention is falling apart as groups and individuals shy away from naked profiteering. The “movement” … Continue reading
Wind Power
From the AP via HuffPo, we learn that the stimulus bill has produced a huge expansion in the wind energy sector: According to Whitehouse.gov, the release of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) 4th Quarter 2009 industry assessment(PDF) indicates that … Continue reading
Uncanny Aliens
I’ve long held that intelligent alien life would probably resemble us pretty closely. The laws of physics being the same everywhere, some forms of life are just too limited: fish-people would be unable to use fire and discover chemistry, for … Continue reading
Bipartisanship and Budget Hawking
More 11-Dimensional Chess to drive the left batty: The bipartisan 18-member panel backed by Obama would study the issue for much of the year and, if 14 members agree, report a deficit reduction blueprint after the November elections that would … Continue reading
With Enemies Like These…
David Corn seems more cued-in to what the rest of the progressive left is missing: With profound challenges still facing the nation, what counts is what Obama can achieve by out-maneuvering and surmounting this opposition. Washington is long past the … Continue reading
Programming Note
Okay, the system’s going to be coming back online today. Posts will be spotty. in the meantime, watch this hilarious fashion promo out of Scotland:
Blame The Geeks
Blame it on the math geniuses with the fancy computers. You know those fancy computer models! I mean, Al Gore and his climate “scientists” use computer models too, and that should tell you how awful they are. That’s my summation … Continue reading
Just Like Bush, the Series
From AP via HuffPo: BAGHDAD — The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday. Because Obama is just like … Continue reading
