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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: Israel
Nonviolence Applied to Israel
Is it just me, or have all the optics of US-Israeli relations been turned on their heads? Obama’s Israel policy has been consistent: while maintaining the security alliance, he’s patiently and persistently insisted on a halt to Israel’s “hostile development” … Continue reading
Rules of Politics
I’m going out on a totally-unsupported limb here and rethink my whole attitude towards the Dubai assassination mess just on this guy’s say-so: “There is no reason to think that it was the Israeli Mossad and not some other intelligence … Continue reading
Those Crazy Mossad Boys
They done fucked up. Not only did they get busted with good policework by the Dubai cops, it turns out they stole the IDs from Israelis with dual citizenship. Now the Israeli press is having a field day. From the … Continue reading
Assassination Squad Unmasked By Police
Today’s edition of Virtual Reality Living contains this tale, via AP, of an assassinated Hamas leader in Dubai and a security-video review that unmasked the assassination ring down to the details. Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim showed the news conference … Continue reading
Avatar in Israel
Your eyes do not deceive you. Life is imitating art, and that art is a breakthrough in virtual reality. I predict more of this around the world as the DVD penetrates popular culture. Cameron has unintentionally birthed a meme of … Continue reading
Weekly World News: Muslim Relations
Well, after a couple of weeks’ hiatus I am finally bringing back this feature. My apologies for the delay; workplace demands have made it difficult to keep up with global news. But the world has saved up plenty to talk … Continue reading
Weekly World: Global Currency?
Hey, I’ve managed to do this two weeks in a row, which means it’s turning into a (gasp!) regular feature! We’ll start off the global news with China, a country that’s getting tired of financing the United States public debt: … Continue reading
Photo of the Day
No, your browser’s working correctly. That’s the actual picture, black empty space and all. Condi Rice stands alone on a huge stage, proclaiming “progress” in the quicksands of Palestine. Thanks to Michael Shaw over at HuffPost for pointing this out. … Continue reading
