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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...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.
Category Archives: Huffington Post
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
Archives: Campbell Brown Smears MSNBC
The following appeared at Huffington Post on October 30th, 2009. When CNN’s Campbell Brown played the MSNBC card against Valerie Jarrett, she was engaging in the fallacy of false equivalence. Faux Noise is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC … Continue reading
Archives: Faux Noise Fear Factory
The following appeared in Huffington Post October 27th, 2009. Back in June, Paul Krugman said that “at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” Upon reading … Continue reading
