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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: Barack Obama
Obama’s Speech Tomorrow
Fact: The United States Congress has not declared war since World War II. Korea? A police action. Vietnam? Merely a low-intensity conflict. By the 1980s, all we had instead of Wars were “operations.” The Grenada “operation.” The Panama “operation.” The … Continue reading →
The word is ‘Taint’
Illinois governor Blagojevich wanted to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. Obama wanted him to give the seat to (horrors!) a qualified statesman. “They’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F**k them,” Blagojevich said. But somehow, … Continue reading →
Obama Birth Certificate Challenge Turned Down By Supreme Court
In yet another blow to the ongoing campaign to convince America that Barack Obama’s middle name is actually Nicolae Carpathia, the US Supreme Court has told a New Jersey crackpot that he cannot sue the president-elect on charges of gestational … Continue reading →
Obama’s Birth Certificate
It appears that I will spend the next eight years shooting down letter-writers to the Times Daily who perpetuate stupid myths about the president-elect. Tonight I’m working on a reply to this gem. I’ll post it here when it’s done.
Obama to Fire ALL Bush Ambassadors
There was a time when American ambassadors were competent, qualified diplomats who represented their country’s interests with creativity and sagacity. Believe it or not, those days ended long before Bush was a glimmer in the eye. The “new” tradition, using … Continue reading →
Kevin Bacon, Star Trek, and Urban Violence
While hanging out at Bob Cesca’s Goddamn Awesome Blog Go! today, I found myself posting a very lengthy comment, on which I now base my blog for the day. Why do gun owners “bitterly cling” to their guns? Because guns … Continue reading →
"Renegade" to Close Gitmo Prison
Word came out today that the Secret Service has chosen “Renegade” as Obama’s code name. Considering that Obama seems to be following through on his campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, I’d say the name is well-chosen. What … Continue reading →
11/4 and two 9/11s
Four years ago, I watched Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention and thought: “Damn it all, why isn’t HE running for president?!” When he declared his candidacy in February of 2007, I whooped and hollered for joy. He’s been … Continue reading →
McCain’s New Surge
“Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is … Continue reading →
Letter to the Times Daily (UPDATE)
To the Editor: In the wake of this paper’s unexpected endorsement of Barack Obama, two letters appeared on this page Wednesday. Thank you for printing them. That page has been preserved for posterity, placed in a time capsule so future … Continue reading →
Sarah Jumps Ship
I’m occupied writing a letter tonight in response to the awful crapola that appeared on the editorial page of my local daily, which endorsed Obama for president this past Sunday. Two letters appeared today, one of op-ed length, reproducing the … Continue reading →
