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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: Green Revolution
EPA Smog Rules Freakout is Ridiculous
First of all, let’s stop with the stupid sports metaphors. Really. If you need an analogy, smog regulations are a low card in a high stakes game, and Lisa Jackson is the queen of hearts when Obama needs spades. If … Continue reading
Why Green Is A Winning Issue
Did I mention that my video wound up on TV? As I keep saying: the progressive generation will advocate for a green energy future…and do it very well. The president needs to unleash these kids on cap & trade opposition.
Yes To Tesla
This is one badass car; and as little as I actually need a car, it can actually run off a solar roof even in Alabama. That’s all my travel made green for monthly payments as low as $1,658. First company … Continue reading
Afghanistan, Green Energy, And War
There’s a Plan B after all. Afghanistan turns out to have enormous metal deposits: So far, the biggest mineral deposits discovered are of iron and copper, and the quantities are large enough to make Afghanistan a major world producer of … Continue reading
Capitalism and Climate
Despite all the noise about climategate, it turns out that one very important and influential set of people is betting long on climate change: capitalists. From MoJo: Companies, of course, exist to make money. That’s often what makes them seem … Continue reading
Blow The Green Bubble
He’s more than a gaffe-prone distraction from the president; he’s also a change-agent. Vice President Joe Biden told a room full of Wall-Street Democrats some things they might not like to hear: And so the current moment also poses a … Continue reading
Don Blankenship Must Diet
Via ThinkProgress: Shares of Massey have been shrinking. If ever there was a CEO worth hating, it is Don Blankenship. His mines are the Ford Pinto of the industry and he hasn’t the decency to think his miners’ lives are … Continue reading
Electrical Resistance
Scientific American asks whether politics will slow the development of wind power. Apparently, wind farming in the plains states is so lucrative that Influential natural gas producers and generators in Texas are worried. They are demanding that the state’s wind … Continue reading
Green Becomes Strategic
China is betting long on green, but also disturbing strategic planners in the way Germans and French played brinksman with coal and iron once upon a time, and Russia does with gas and oil. The irony is that these green … Continue reading
Green Stimulus
This is how you convert to a green economy in a red state: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas launched a new energy efficiency program Tuesday to make low-interest loans available to several thousand home owners and small businesses for upgrading insulation, … Continue reading
Iran Admits to Torture of Protesters
From the British Guardian: Iran’s police chief admitted yesterday that protesters who were arrested after June’s disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a prison in south-west Tehran. But he denied that any of the detainees had … Continue reading
