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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 11:19 am
Thanks, I've been asking that same question since the tea party first emerged.Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 11:19 am
Between "don't know" and "don't care," I'm not sure which one is worse -- at least in terms of the cognitive dissonance level.Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 10:59 am
Shorter Kevin Deanna: Colleges are supposed to reinforce my prejudices! Shorter Devin Saucier: We're the real victims! These young men are...Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.
Category Archives: 2012 GOP nomination
Newt Gingrich Rageface
The photo on the left is from Charles Ommanney of Newsweek. It makes Newt look like a ragecomic, the memetastic drawings that populate websites like Reddit and 4Chan. Users make ragecomics with a set of template characters, of which Mega … Continue reading
Think The Republicans Are Splintering? Think Again
By Emilia1956 Our biggest problem – the Left’s – is that we’re stupid. Or rather, we’re naive. So naive, we never learn from our mistakes. And we listen too much to the Professional Left. No sooner had Barack Obama won … Continue reading
There Are No Words
No captions today. None needed.
Life on Mars
The debate last night included some astounding nonsense about the president’s space policy. Moreover, the remarks in question are counterfactual and dissonant. From the fast transcript, edited for coherence: Romney: Get rid of subsidies. I spent time with 8 people … Continue reading
“Self-Deportation” is Code for “Ethnic Cleansing, Phase 1″
They didn’t have papers either: “(This bill)…attacks every aspect of an illegal alien’s life…is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves.” Mitt Romney last night? Nope, that’s Alabama House Majority Leader Mickey … Continue reading
Wall Street is Technically a Street in America
So I guess we can’t call this a gaffe from Mitt Romney. Nor is it a laugh line, because it isn’t funny. Mitt Romney is American street the way Hot Topic is punk: through plasticity, monoculture, and artifice. Mitt Romney … Continue reading
BREAKING: Newt Gingrich is Really Dwight Schrute
This explains everything. The top is Gingrich, bottom is Rainn Wilson’s character on The Office. You be the judge! Via Reddit.
Morning Awful: Gingrich Gaining
Newt Gingrich has overtaken Mitt Romney in South Carolina by attacking his record at Bain — and amping the Obama rhetoric up to eleven: At a town hall meeting of attended by about 200 people at the Art Trail Gallery, a … Continue reading
Willard
In the movie of the same name, Willard is a compassionless man, whose only friends are a gang of rats … Forty years later, and Willard is still a compassionless man, pallin’ around with a gang of rats.
The Politics of Being Progressive
In 2011, the progressive blogosphere assumed that fabled, infamous circular firing squad formation and opened fire. The internal politics of netroots are showing up in posts. Digby: The jobs numbers are good, but there also good reason to contain the jubiliation … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Mitt Wants to Fire You
Context is everything, but “I like being able to fire people” is all anyone heard: I want individuals to have their own insurance. That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also mean that … Continue reading
