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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: Huffington Post
Ratf**kers, Republicans, and Bin Laden
Question: Does anybody see anything wrong with this political advert? Because I don’t. First, it’s politics and it’s an election year. Of course, a President trying for re-election is going to harp for all it’s worth on his major achievements; … Continue reading
Jonathan Chait Puts Bag Over Head, HuffPo Lights It On Fire
Jonathan Chait is not normally given to hyperbole. But it is telling that his New York Magazine essay a few weeks ago on the sources of liberal discontent with Obama didn’t make the masthead at Huffington Post, while “How Obama … Continue reading
Archives: Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat
This appeared at Huffington Post on January 3rd, 2010. Editors let it die in obscurity while promoting screeds about the health care bill to the front page; the latter were poorly-argued, factually-challenged, and filled with typos — but met the … Continue reading
Cana-DUH
By Magic Love Hose One of the things about living in Canada is that you get nearly all US media and all Canadian media as well, so you can look at everything the US media culture puts out and compare … Continue reading
Archives: Why Hasn’t There Been a Progressive March on DC?
This appeared at Huffington Post on December 20, 2009. I’ve had my fill of gate-crashers whining about false dialectics. Whether we like it or not, last November was not a referendum on Senate rules or corporate personhood. Even the most … Continue reading
Archives: The Unnatural History of Nontroversy
This originally appeared at Huffington Post on December 10, 2009. I am still pondering the reaction I got after my most recent HuffPost piece, Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy. The story got lots of traffic, but an editor placed … Continue reading
Archives: Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy
This originally appeared at Huffington Post on 4 December 2009. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — Macbeth Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with … Continue reading
Archives: Embarrassed, Jeff Sessions Makes Stupid Excuses
Resuming Operation HuffPoof! This post appeared 11-16-2009 at Arianna’s place. Republican senators are somehow surprised by negative publicity over their vote endorsing Halliburton’s alleged gang rape cover-up. Both of my senators have attempted damage control. In response to my email, … Continue reading
With a Puff, Huffington Posts Go Poof
If you click here, you’ll see that nothing remains of the 39 articles I’ve written for Arianna Huffington. Not a title, sentence, or tag is left. My author bio now reads: Matt Osborne has deleted all his posts from this … Continue reading
Archives: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™
This appeared 11-12-2009 at Huffington Post. The strange nexus of right-wing Christian identity politics and beauty pageants has produced Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Carrie Prejean. What is it about their world that turns toxic and causes flaky behavior?
Archives: The Media Stovepipe
This appeared at HuffPo on 9 November 2009. We’ve seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity. This one began with a … Continue reading
