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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: March 2010
How Stupid Are Insurance Companies?
Stupid enough to hike rates 40% while the country is arguing about a health insurance reform bill? Stupid enough to find a loophole about insuring sick kids and trumpet it to the media not a week after the bill is … Continue reading
Two Swords Are Enough
I was selling flags at a gun show all weekend and had to spend yesterday evening catching up with a news cycle that’s finally catching up with me. Frank Rich recognized the teabag terror and its enablers: Are these politicians … Continue reading
Morning Awful
Yes, the spitting actually happened. And in a way the ACORN brothel-setup scandal did not, which is to say “not just in a video editor’s imagination.”
Let The Purges Begin
At HuffPo, David Frum’s wife recognizes the end of conservative philosophy: I can categorically state I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate — once the hallmarks of Reaganism, the politics with which we grew up … Continue reading
Obama’s Middle Name is Nicholae Carpathia
That’s right. The linchpin of anti-Obama rhetoric is a popular novel about rapture and tribulation. Let us raise a hymn: Beloved brethren and sistren, I posted this here one year ago today: Without delving into an argument I’ve been having … Continue reading
You Don’t “Coordinate” Zombies
Dale Robertson, the self-proclaimed “founder” of the tea party movement, speaking of teabag terrorism in the Washington Times yesterday: “These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there,” Mr. Robertson said. “They’re trying … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV
La Jetée, the short film by Chris Marker that became Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys.
From the Department of Rational Empiricism
Homeless advocates have been saying it for years, but now there’s empirical evidence to back it up: the Obama administration has gotten a boost to its plans to reform urban housing issues with a new study finding that governments spend … Continue reading
Childish Republicans
Remember that kid in third grade who always flipped insults? “I’m not stupid — YOU’RE stupid!” That kid is now the Grand Old Party. What to do, now that the zeitgeist has shifted? Tea party wackos berated a man in … Continue reading
Dear Chris Reichert
Sir: I read yesterday of your apology to Robert Letcher, the wheelchair-bound Parkinson’s victim you mocked during a health care bill protest last week. That hateful and harmful action — one which propelled the public narrative to turn against the … Continue reading
