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Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.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.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
My Surreal Yesterday And Work Today
I’m working on two big, timely media projects and I have to get to a party in Huntsville to get more video, so I haven’t had time to post much today. The video from yesterday’s interview with a Huntsville scientist … Continue reading
The Morning Awful
Hyperlocal: what used to be one of the best turf fields in America has been torn up to be replaced with another unremarkable astroturf monstrosity. Braly Stadium holds fond memories for me and hosts the annual NCAA Division II football … Continue reading
We Demand Supervision!
Foreign Policy asks the right question: what can the president actually do about an oil spill? (J)ust because the federal government has the authority to take over doesn’t mean it has the resources to do a better job. Asked by … Continue reading
Another Korean Crisis
The right is making some hay over rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Given the fact there were already more than 500,000 documented violations of the cease-fire by North Korea when I served in the late 1990s, the ratcheted rhetoric … Continue reading
We Must Deport Brown People Over There So We Don’t Have to Hate Them Over Here
What can possibly go wrong with anti-immigrant hysteria? This:
The Morning Awful
On the one hand, it’s awful to watch the ongoing fiasco. OTOH, it’s interesting how the whole world is going to have an eye on BP. This is Gibson’s Law in real-time, and that part is kind of exciting.
Cartography Geek-out
That’s McClatchy’s map up there; below is mine. This post will be modified as I find new maps of the conflict zone. Afghanistan is mostly a state in theory. In fact, it’s a vast tribal zone with every disadvantage of … Continue reading
Faux Edit
This is why I call it FAUX Noise: they edited the applause out of the president’s West Point speech. Cadets cheering Teh Obamanon™ doesn’t fit the narrative, you see. Murdoch’s agit-prop shop doesn’t do journalism, but the “liberal media” jumps … Continue reading
Big Music Insists On Its Own Extinction
Mark Gorton made a sincere effort to offer the RIAA a way into the 21st Century, but now admits it was a bad idea: “Perhaps I was naïve,” Mr. Gorton said in an interview last week at LimeWire’s office near … Continue reading
That War Supplemental: There’s No Plan B
Members of Congress with any inclination to balk at President Obama’s massive emergency war-funding request have found their case strengthened by two recent reports that question many of the administration’s key premises and assumptions. So begins the Huffington Post in … Continue reading
The Morning Awful
Remember what I said about Republicans and wingnuts being unable to help themselves, and how the Arizona “papers please” law wouldn’t be the end of it? But remember, it has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with race when town fathers … Continue reading
