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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.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: fiasco
Another Reason To Hate France
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the French Empire has returned triumphant of late, France is also responsible for this disco-themed atrocity that assaulted my eyeballs on Reddit last night. Good thing de Gaulle developed nuclear weapons; his country … Continue reading
SOTU Response Fiasco
She gazed not at the pool-camera where a national audience awaited eye contact, but at the Tea Party Express cam. What should have been a national arrival was instead the perfect picture of cognitive dissonance.
Macondo Fiasco
“Systemic management problems” at private companies and ineffective federal oversight caused the Macondo blowout: “The blowout was not the product of a series of aberrational decisions made by rogue industry or government officials that could not have been anticipated or … Continue reading
Between Fail And Fiasco There Is Epic Fail
Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio after a disaster-themed 49-7 bowl loss to Alabama, via my local daily: “This game is a roller coaster,” he said. “You go into it — you can be in the locker room all focused … Continue reading
Netroots Failure
I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support the chairman, despite their preference … Continue reading
Nothing More Than This
For regular readers living outside the south, a brief digression into the history of church and sound: southern evangelicals only recently accepted such musical concepts as “Christian rock,” to say nothing of “Christian metal.” The appearance of a strong, epic … Continue reading
Anwar al-Awlaki Is A Traitor Who Has Earned His Death
That is all, or ought to be. But others feel differently: Logically, I would expect that if the government has evidence compelling enough to justify assassinating (or imprisoning forever) an American citizen, the government would prove its case in court. … Continue reading
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
January 28, 1863: in heavy snow at the Confederate encampment in Virginia’s Rappahannock Valley, the First and Fourth Texas Infantry got the bright idea to fight cabin fever by starting an impromptu exercise. You, know, to blow the dust off … Continue reading
The Bush Legacy
Why am I not surprised at this? LOS ANGELES — The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy … Continue reading
Murkowski’s $375 million BP Bailout
The president has had enough of BP and the Interior Department. It’s a good time for getting mad at Big Oil. But Senate Republicans have been falling all over themselves to woo the industry, and last night Lisa Murkowski (R-BP) … Continue reading
Interior Damage
The Interior Department was already a mess in 2001 as Bush was sworn in. It spent the next eight years getting so much worse: billions in missing oil & gas fees, corruption, drug use, and mismanagement led to scandal and … Continue reading
