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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
Michele Bachmann Destroys the World
If you haven’t read Tim Murphy’s article about her over at MoJo, do it now. Then come back. Seriously, I’ll wait. The depth of insanity behind her crusade against efficient light bulbs isn’t just silly entertainment, but the head of … Continue reading
Biblical Errancy is Intentional
Rachel Tabachnick has been tracking culture warriors for a long time, and provides a badly-needed window on the “education” that movement conservatism seeks to install everywhere. Darwin is stripped from the “Christian” classroom — with the sole exception of economics: … Continue reading
Tea Party Sees Working Americans As Oppressors, Government As The Solution
I’ve written dozens of posts over the last two years about authoritarianism in the tea party movement. The crisis in Wisconsin is drawing this element out into the open. Governor Walker’s threat to use the National Guard against tens of … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Shadow Company
The truth is outsourced: this documentary on mercenaries in Iraq should be required viewing for Congress. Blackwater/Xe, ArmorGroup, and the rest of these unaccountable outfits are the clearest manifestations of conservative ungovernance in our time. Their continued role in America’s … Continue reading
Gary Mitchell Bachmann
Godlike powers and godlike reverence. Two characters with eyes shiny enough to project their minds on the rest of us. One is destined to be reborn on the big screen, the other is obsessed with the unborn on the small … Continue reading
A Tea Party Is Not A Protest
At WaPo, Amy Gardner gets the tea party exactly wrong in one word: Two years ago, (Gena) Bell was a floral arranger in Cincinnati with plenty of time on her hands (she used to trim five Christmas trees in her … Continue reading
Installing Idiocracy
Over at Slate, Anne Applebaum suspects the “anti-elite-educationism” Bell predicted is growing now not despite the rise of meritocracy, but because of it. The old Establishment types were resented, but only because their wealth and power were perceived as “undeserved.” … Continue reading
Things That Aren’t True
Over at ThinkProgress, Matt Yglesias denounces the title of Markos’ American Taliban as hyperbole: This stuff doesn’t win votes anyone (sic) because, after all, it’s a form of preaching to the choir. Which is fine—the choir needs some sermons. But … Continue reading
What, Me Worry?
I keep hearing this refrain: there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans, and the president hasn’t shat out my insta-paradise yet, so why should I bother to vote? The answer, from my local newspaper: Alabama Republican Party Chairman Mike … Continue reading
Morning Awful: The ACLJ
Pat Robertson’s “answer” to the ACLU is leading the fight to keep a Muslim YMCA (NOT a mosque) from locating near the site of the 9/11 tragedy. Curiously, the ACLJ and ADL are contradicting themselves to do so: The American … Continue reading
How The American Left Works (Or Doesn’t)
The Washington Post says a progressive group is FINALLY going to organize a rally: Leaders of the groups have been meeting for about three months in a planning process that some participants called arduous, debating everything from the name of … Continue reading
