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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: August 2010
Best Venn Diagram Ever
Found here.
Mystery Mission
Speculation abounds: what is the mission of the X-37B uranium space modulator secret unmanned space vehicle? A clue this week as amateur skywatchers report: The U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane apparently boosted itself into a new orbit Aug. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Closeted Republicans
Ken Mehlman is finally our of the closet…four years after Bill Maher exposed him. Here he is giving a most ironic pep-talk to Republicans in 2006.
Dear Wingnuts: It’s On You Now
Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, and the rest of the Islamophobes need to get together with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and get their gang war on clash of civilizations over with. From the gray lady: Evan F. Kohlmann, who tracks militant … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Has A (White) Dream
What was that thing I said the other day about measuring the size of a crowd? Because we can argue all day about an estimate, but one thing you never want to do is measure a crowd before it’s arrived … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Westboro Baptist
They deserve to be interviewed with contempt. Which is exactly what Brick Stone (gotta be a pseudonym) has done:
Scud
Based loosely on the V-2, the scud is really a terror weapon or a WMD delivery system. It has no practical conventional use. From Frontline: The Iraqis modified Scuds for greater range, largely by reducing warhead weight, enlarging their fuel … Continue reading
Morning Awful: China Traffic Jam
Lasting nine days and stretching 62 miles, what you see here is the universal paradox of traffic management: cars will always multiply faster than roads. Nowhere is that more true than in a country that used to be famous for … Continue reading
Jane the Hamsher Strikes Again
Go here, scroll to the bottom of the page, and you’ll find out that the woman who gave us the Fire of the Dog and the Lake also heads an ad provider called “Common Sense Media.” Among the customers of … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Islamophobia on Display
Guess what? Sooner or later, YOU might be “one of THEM” too. Like this poor guy, a brown-skinned union ground zero worker mistaken for a Muslim by members of a seething hate group. That’s what Pam Geller and SIOA friends … Continue reading
Crowd Science
Watch carefully. The crowd allegedly consists of two quadrillion people. It’s a time lapse over two hours, but the crowd is still assembling at the 16 second mark — fully one-third of the way into the video: The main crowd … Continue reading
