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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: health care reform
Archives: Attack of the Town Hall Zombies
This post ran Sep. 1st, 2009 at Huffington Post and included my very first music mash-up. Republicans talk about H.R. 3200 as if it were a marauding army of zombies. They say health care reform will eat your grandma and … Continue reading
Archives: Parker Griffith Throws Red Meat
This originally ran at Huffington Post August 27th, 2009 with the editor’s title “Rep. Griffith Panders to Reform Detractors at Town Hall.”It was my HuffPo debut as part of Arianna’s “Off the Bus” effort. Monday, August 24th–Give Parker Griffith (D-AL) … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Judicial Activism
So a US District Judge has struck down the entire health care law on the sole grounds of the mandate, saying it is not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted. It is difficult to imagine … Continue reading
True Stories Of The Health Care Patrol
Last Thursday, I arrived at the VA clinic precisely on time and waited exactly forty-five seconds before being called to the back. As a nurse drew four small vials of blood with only the tiniest of stabs, I told her … Continue reading
How Stupid Are Insurance Companies?
Stupid enough to hike rates 40% while the country is arguing about a health insurance reform bill? Stupid enough to find a loophole about insuring sick kids and trumpet it to the media not a week after the bill is … Continue reading
Dear Chris Reichert
Sir: I read yesterday of your apology to Robert Letcher, the wheelchair-bound Parkinson’s victim you mocked during a health care bill protest last week. That hateful and harmful action — one which propelled the public narrative to turn against the … Continue reading
Talking Point
Dozens of GOP congresscritters say “flawed health care bill:” See what I mean when I say the mash-up is the final act in the evolution of media?
GOP HCR defeat strategy undone by 2nd Amendment
According to a diary up at Daily Kos, efforts to undo the mandate in court will not succeed because of a precedent involving guns. The Militia Act of 1792 required That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six … Continue reading
Health Care Stocks Move
Insurers fell and hospitals jumped. What does that tell you?
Lady Gaga Will Eat Your Brain
Some weirdness for your weekend: a website called “Vigilant Citizen” has a nice, long post detailing the mind-control propaganda in Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video. In the video, the “telephone” is a metaphor for Gaga’s brain and the fact that she … Continue reading
