Category Archives: Morning Awful

Morning Awful: Papa John’s Plaza

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Papa John’s Plaza”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail John Schnatter founded Papa John’s Pizza and then went on to become a source of right wing political funding. Lately, he’s been doing his best imitation of a Randian producer by threatening … Continue reading →

Morning Awful: Blacklist

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Blacklist”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailForty-four UK construction firms paid a “consultant” named Ian Kerr to keep thousands of names on a worker blacklist. While the Information Commissioner broke up the concern in 2009, little has happened since then and … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: What Occupy Movement?

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: What Occupy Movement?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Chris Weigant sums up the problem with Occupy succinctly: by rejecting the opportunity to take part in electoral politics, aka “The System,” the protest movement has failed to replicate the success enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Authoritarian Libertarianism

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Authoritarian Libertarianism”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail In a long, but excellent essay at Salon.com, former Republican Mike Lofgren opens up about the GOP’s deep capture to belief systems and immunity to facts. The whole thing is worth reading, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Authoritarianism, Kulturkampf, Morning Awful, The Teabag Terror | 77 Comments

Morning Awful: Coal Country

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Coal Country”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI keep saying that West Virginia is in deep capture to the kind of disaster capitalism we normally associate with places like Nigeria. Last week, activists and citizens opposed to mountaintop removal mining attempted … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Limbaugh Newsletter Lift

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Limbaugh Newsletter Lift”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe picture on the left is a “Nightmare Beast” from the 2002 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. The one on the right is from the latest edition of Rush Limbaugh’s … Continue reading →

Posted in games, Morning Awful, rush limbaugh | 83 Comments

Morning Awful: Blowback Bloviations

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Blowback Bloviations”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I’m not sure why so many op-ed writers feel the need to inform the president about the concept of blowback. Maybe it’s because George W. Bush was the first American president who didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Morning Awful, national security | Tagged drone hysteria, drones | 86 Comments

Morning Awful: Liar

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Liar”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail “Hunter,” a pseudonymous DailyKos writer, asks the impolitic question of our age. Why, with conservatism in full collapse and the right wing inmates running a Republican asylum, does the Fourth Estate have such a … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Romney Twitter Inflation

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Romney Twitter Inflation”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Governor’s Romney’s Twitter follower count suddenly inflated over the weekend. The website 140elect.com noticed a unexplained spike on Saturday. I doubt that anyone is trying to “plant a story to embarrass him,” … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Rushed Lamebaugh

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Rushed Lamebaugh”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail What’s worse than saying something stupid? Turning around and offering the lamest possible excuse for it in your hurry to compensate. In case you missed it, here is Rachel Maddow’s takedown of the … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Bane Damage

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Bane Damage”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Image by @MagicLoveHose. Rush Limbaugh has a long history of saying patently stupid and ridiculous things — see, for example, his infamous endorsement of the murderous “Lord’s Resistance Army” — but this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Morning Awful, paranoid universe, rush limbaugh | 89 Comments