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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: September 2010
Saturday Afternoon TV: Burn A Million Quid
When you’ve already made an artistic statement by manufacturing a number one hit and then leaving the music business altogether, what’s left to do except set fire to the money?
Iraq Is An Operation, But Not A Combat Op
It’s funny what happened to the word ‘war.’ Even as it became a political and cultural meme, it lost currency in public discourse. See how that works? Korea was a”police action” (that wasn’t),Vietnam a “domino” (that wasn’t), and then the … Continue reading
Gingerbread, Hibbett PTA To Lose Tax-Exempt Status (UPDATE)
Gingerbread Playhouse, Hibbett School PTA, the Natchez Trace Genealogical Society, and the Florence chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers are all about to lose their tax-exempt status, according to the Internal Revenue Service. They are among some 300,000 … Continue reading
How To Spot A Republican
From Captain Coolaid. A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Louisiana Fish Kills
They even found a dead whale in this one: More reports here and here; also, tar patties wash ashore here and here. It’s not over.
Babylon 2025
I’m not going to make it through today, I thought as the alarm went off. I’d been on for six hours, and the way things looked it’d be a busy six more before I got to crash in my rack. … Continue reading
Tea Party Express To Defeat
Start with the fact that Mike Castle was the first Republican to discover the tea party was not his friend when a woman stood up in his town hall meeting to wave her birth certificate and demand the president’s, to … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Tea Party Floats
This is so utterly tasteless I hesitate to describe it. All those denials that tea party activism is racist? Flushed now down the craphole of reality:
Moving And Expanding
As some readers already know, I’m leaving my current apartment and moving into my future mother-in-law’s house to help my fiancée take care of her. At the age of 55, her working life is now over. For the last 18 … Continue reading
