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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: February 2010
Morning Awful
Wow, Scott Brown (R-MA) is a progressive. Who knew? Mike Lux does a good job of examining Beck’s CPAC speech here.
Wheat-From-Chaff: Deficit Reduction
The chaff is settling. If the Democrats cannot muster a 60-vote majority in the Senate then they must pursue majority rule; Evan Bayh has chosen not to take part in that. Meanwhile, the GOP’s two-faced approach to jobs is mirrored … Continue reading
Random Insanity
Man shoots at middle-schoolers, gets tackled by teachers. The entire paranoid basis of right-wing gun culture debunked in one incident by one person who, for whatever reason, thought shooting kids was okay. I can’t wait to find out who this … Continue reading
The Truth Is Outsourced
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wants to rein in the era of outsourced war. She was talking about her efforts with HuffPo’s Ryan Grim: As Schakowsky, seated in her office, lays out her plan for phasing out military reliance on contractors, … Continue reading
Strategic Mosquito Defense Initiative
This is the weirdest video to come out of the TED conference: a sensing system that ID’s female mosquitoes and sizzles their wings off with a laser.
Morning Awful
A Glenn Beck fan is no longer satisfied with his insanity, so she makes the leap to Alex Jones. Meta-wacky! I love it when Jones gripes about the guy who stole his act.
The Post In Which I Agree With A Conservative Radio Guy
Unbelievably, every word: I was invited to be the opening speaker at Saturday’s CPAC session. I had accepted but then, to my amazement, I learned that the John Birch Society would be one of many co-sponsors. This takes the big-tent … Continue reading
ABC: Always Broadcast Controversy
Sure, no Very Serious Beltway reporter would think to get Arab reaction to a story about public communications aimed at the Arab world. After all, it’s such a chore to chat up the nearest felafel vendor. But would it be … Continue reading
IMF, Thy Name Is Hypocrisy
Guess what? The IMF is telling Britain it’s too soon to cut the welfare state in a recession. Yes, this is the same IMF that regularly produces ruinous disaster capitalism in the developing world. There’s a reason why torture and … Continue reading
Ripping Cheney’s Heart Out
While Dick Cheney was hospitalized for chest pains, the criminal justice system was busy disproving his entire doctrine. AP via HuffPo: NEW YORK — A former airport shuttle driver accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack … Continue reading
