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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.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...
Author Archives: MagicLoveHose
Other Censored TED Talks
I actually really like TED Talks. But c’mon.
… Not As We Do
Thanks to Jordan Ashby for the heads-up here. We have our own citizenship-renouncing rich shithead in Canada named Conrad Black. Call me quirky, but I view citizenship as a bit more sacred than something you just buy and sell, y’know?
A Big Thank You
He raised a million dollars in the ninety minutes after the announcement. I think he’s going to be okay.
The Arc Of The Universe
They passed the amendment because they knew what was coming and it shook them to the bone.
(Something Witty About CISPA)
CISPA is bad for people with normal heads too. Information on contacting your representatives in the Senate available here. SOPA/PIPA went down; we can win this fight too, but only if we show up.
We Hold The Right To Party to be Inalienable
I know it’s horribly white of me to say that the Beastie Boys were my favorite R&B group, but, well – they were. And it’s just plain horrible that just last week, that wasn’t a “were,” but an “are.” Rest … Continue reading
Where Credit Is Due
Of course, if it had gone wrong, I’m sure the question of ownership would be just as earnestly argued on both sides, right?
G. I. Joke
Based on a conversation with Matt Osborne and Jordan Ashby. Special thanks to the fine folks at JoeCustoms.com for the custom file card creator!
Why Mass Effect is a Parable About Climate Change
This post is going to have spoilers, including for the ending to Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect is my current science fictional obsession. I buttoned down and got an Xbox 360 solely for it in 2007; I wound up re-buying … Continue reading
Magic Love Hose Versus Men’s Rights
Did you know there’s a men’s rights movement? Because what other group throughout history has ever had it so rough. A semi-sad announcement: I’m taking two weeks off from Political Gunpowder. The why of it is summarized in one word, … Continue reading
