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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...
Category Archives: 11-Dimensional Chess
The Center Cannot Hold
I could not bear to watch the final Republican debate. One of my Twitter correspondents — a sweet-tempered Alabamian named Jill who identifies with neither party, and so considers herself part of the middle — asked me why not. I … Continue reading
Spammer Causes Online Meltdown
On December 10th an unknown spammer posted a selectively-edited video of Senator Carl Levin at YouTube and proceeded to tweet the link 45 times over 24 hours. The link is now dead (video deleted by user), but it has already … Continue reading
Square Deal
The term “fair deal” has been bandied about of late, but I like “square deal” because it resonates with all the issues wrapped up in the fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Both a movement and a president have … Continue reading
Crossroads at a President
The Occupation movement has a large contingent — not quite half — that is passionately opposed to endorsing the president of the United States for reelection. The president’s approval rating is actually a little worse among the general public, yet … Continue reading
If Occupy Wall Street Was A Game of Pong
Oligarchy isn’t afraid of individuals — until those individuals act together. Union-busting and disenfranchisement are all about making it harder for Americans to organize against oligarchy.
Latino 11 Dimensional Chess
President Obama tells Univision how the GOP presidential field made his ad campaigns easy: “I don’t think it requires us to go negative in the sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, or character assassinations,” Obama told … Continue reading
No One Ever Actually Builds A Third Party
So I was reading this survey of Occupy Wall Street participants (.PDF) when I noticed something completely unsurprising: If the 2012 election for the U.S. House of Representatives were being held today, would you vote for the Republican candidate or the … Continue reading
Occupy Atlanta
The Occupation of America will continue and grow in Atlanta. The harder the power squeezes, the stronger the movement grows. That’s how the First Amendment works. “The movement is not just about occupying a space,” said Brittany Gondolfi, a women’s studies student … Continue reading
Health Care Law Saves Californians $283 Million
California Blue Shield customers are getting a $283 million credit on their bills thanks to the ACA: Although Thursday’s action affects only nearly 2 million of Blue Shield’s policyholders in California, other consumers could be getting similar paybacks under President … Continue reading
Non-Toxic Branding
Ezra Klein on the incredible shrinking tea party: Its leverage has always come from its ability to influence internal Republican Party politics, mostly through a ruthless strategy of primarying insufficiently obedient politicians. But the closer the Republican Party gets to … Continue reading
A National Ralph Ellison Moment
By Emilia 1956 OK, maybe it’s time. No “maybe” about it, it is time we all sat down and had a frank and full discussion about race in America. People want the President to address this head on, but he’s in … Continue reading
