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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: Ayn Rand
Morning Awful: Bullies Enabled
One of the more disgusting trends in right wing demagoguery has been the recasting of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. as a “freedom movement.” The latest example comes from the Koch-funded “Reason” Institute, which is apparently taking up the cause of … Continue reading
Would You Kindly Buy This DVD?
Not even kidding about the basis for this one. Magic Love Hose makes comics for OsborneInk.com. He lives in Canada where he can lob grenades into America’s political process from Minimum Safe Distance. This is his Twitter. Say hi.
Passing Rand for Vonnegut
By Marc Mitchell During my freshman year of high school, fresh off an assigned (and traumatic) reading of Elie Wiesel’s Night, I was presented with a choice: Ayn Rand or Kurt Vonnegut.
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
Atlas Sucked
The humor was rare and unintentional. The film reached for fiasco but fell short. Nondescript, insignificant, it is a faithful adaptation of the source material and should be considered the definitive screen version…minus the sex scenes. The juvenile thrill that … Continue reading
“Atlas Shrugged” is Too Big to Fail
Made for a reported budget of $10 or $15 million, depending on who you ask, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 opened in 299 theaters and grossed $1.7 million this weekend, according to the LA Times. For any other movie, that would … Continue reading
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 “Crushingly Ordinary”
Michael Phillips via LA Times: This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand, I wouldn’t have thought possible. (Emphasis mine)
Morning Awful: Ayn Rand
Communism and collectivism are human survival strategies familiar to anthropology. Human civilization is impossible without group effort. She promulgated a gospel of selfishness that inspired Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible:
Morning Awful
There’s a fantastic analysis at Salon about Stack’s nemesis, Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which removed that protection from certain “technical personnel” — specifically singling out those who provided services as an “engineer, designer, drafter, computer … Continue reading
John Stossel Is A Tool
John Stossel is happy in the Faux Noise toolbox. While skimming the article at Daily Beast I came across this passage tucked in between paeans to the prescience of Ayn Rand: Now, before you could be a TV repairman, you … Continue reading
