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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: Authoritarianism
John Brown’s Pikes
“Private Martin.” “Yes, sir.” He did not swallow or make any other sign of fear. His face was a study in youth exposed to battle. Even delivery of bad news to a flag officer was insufficient to shake the private’s confidence. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Authoritarian Homophobia
Science once again proves the obvious: homophobia is mainly the result of self-oppressed, latent homosexuality. The latest evidence comes from the University of Essex, which tested participants for discrepancy between their overt (i.e. stated) and implicit (demonstrated) sexual orientation: RESULTS: … Continue reading
Jeff Sessions Against My Mom
If Republican legislators have their way, Arizona women will no longer be able to use birth control without their employers’ permission. I wish I was making this up. House Bill 2625 mirrors the argument in Washington, where Congressional Republicans are … Continue reading
Santorum, Gingrich Appeal to Authoritarians in Alabama
The Laurens County, South Carolina Republican Party has high standards for its candidates. They have to pledge their opposition to abortion under any circumstances, their support of unlimited gun ownership, and a federal budget balanced even on the back of … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Santorum Craves Apocalypse
Rick Santorum would like everyone to stop apologizing for accidental Qur’an burnings. Who cares how many Americans get killed over it? Not Rick, who has never been a friend to the American soldier — or the separation of church and … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Santorum INGSOC Slogans
Presidential contestant Rick Santorum yesterday at a rally in Ohio: “Freedom isn’t to do whatever you want to do, it’s to do what you ought to do.” Get that? Most of us think of freedom as something that gives us … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Allen West Says I’m Next
Congressman Allen West isn’t to be satisfied by my service in the US Army, where I learned to avoid commanding officers like him: I’m simply not as “American” as him, so I don’t get the privilege of the First Amendment. … 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
With Newt, You Get Armageddon
By Emilia 1956 So Newt Gingrich is the current GOP front-runner. A lot of people on the Right and some on the Left laud him as an intellectual. He’s not, really. A Doctor of Philosophy degree doesn’t make you an … Continue reading
Better Dredd Than Dead!
This quote from Karl Urban, actor currently in post-production as the title character in a new cinematic version of Judge Dredd, my favorite comic book, is music to my fanboy ears: If anyone is familiar with Dredd, over the years there are … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Thomas Ryan
Note: derp and Hitler ‘stache added for clarity of characterization. I’m trying to remember the time that progressive organizers hacked into tea party accounts and gave information in them to the FBI and various politicos targeted by tea. Can you … Continue reading
