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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: gay
Morning Awful: Gay Corrections
Next thing you know, Georgia police will be taking people to an herbalist for psychiatric evaluation. This is allegedly normal procedure: A Bartow County lesbian is suing the Bartow County Sheriff’s Department and others after she alleges her constitutional rights … Continue reading
The Bargaining Stage for Parents of Gay Kids
This made me snarf on Mountain Dew. When a grown child comes out of the closet, his parents try negotiating. Dad is classic –”I’ll meet you halfway, you can be bisexual!” — but mom absolutely slays me at the one-minute … Continue reading
I’m From The Insurance Company, I’m Here To Help
Carol and Laura Stutte are lesbians. Apparently, to American National Property and Casualty that means the company doesn’t have to fulfill their contract when a homophobic neighbor burns down the Stuttes’ house: Like many homeowners, Carol Ann and Laura had … Continue reading
The Phillips Opportunity
Over at FDL, Marcy Wheeler isn’t so sure Judge Phillips’ DADT injunction is the total victory for which human rights activists have been waiting: It is hard to see how the federal government in DC can allow a single remote … Continue reading
Obama And Gay Marriage
Gay rights activists have been disappointed with the pace of the president’s gay rights agenda. The recent Prop 8 decision that will forever bear the name of an action star-turned-governator has also brought activist attention on the president at a … Continue reading
Glenn Beck On Gay Marriage
Is Glenn Beck endorsing gay marriage? Not so much: In a conversation with Bill O’Reilly on why he avoids culture war issues, Beck admitted that he doesn’t think marriage should be a political issue. “Honestly, I think we have bigger … Continue reading
Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick
From WaPo, a background article on the Obama administration’s quiescent approach to gay rights issues: Soon after Obama’s election, staffers from the Human Rights Campaign presented the transition team with a list of 70 actions the president could take without … Continue reading
From the Department of Not News
Ricky Martin is gay. A total of zero people were shocked by the announcement. Up next: Tim Tebow spends his entire NFL career in denial.
Boy Scout Molestation
In an almost Catholic cover-up, the files may finally open on a non-imaginary child sex scandal: Dykes was convicted three times between 1983 and 1994 of sexually abusing boys, most of them Scouts. Attention Kulturkampfers! WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme … Continue reading
Morning Awful
Tell me again why I should be afraid of the culture warriors? “Natural rights” is a code phrase for Christianist politics. For this controversy to show up at CPAC is indicative of how the right’s wedge issues are now wedged … Continue reading
Dear Richard Thompson
Sir: I have just learned of your statement in the Michigan group’s lawsuit attempting to undo the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. I should like to repeat the pertinent passage here, in which you claim there is “no need” to … Continue reading
