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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: Morning Awful
Morning Awful: God Says Beat Your Kids Straight
North Carolina “Pastor” Sean Harris gives his excited parishioners permission to punch, slap, beat, and humiliate their children for perceived gender-bending. If you were wondering where Republican voters get turned into rabid, mindless hate machines, it isn’t just talk radio … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Grenell Goes
Despite lingering questions over the exact sequence that led to Mitt Romney’s openly-gay national security spokesman leaving the campaign, the optics are exactly what the Romney team wanted to avoid. That wedge just doesn’t cut their way like it used … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Freedom to Hate
Pamela Geller is easily the most dissonant character in the Islamophobia machine, if not the most disgusting. She billed her “Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings,” named for the victim of a murder that had nothing to do … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Osteen Dissonance
Opposing gay marriage is not discrimination because the bible calls it a sin. But megachurch warbler Joel Osteen would be the first to say that expanding the civil marriage franchise to all Americans regardless of who they love…somehow discriminates against … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Perkins Goes Full Birther
It’s not just the Southern Poverty Law Center calling the Family Research Council a hate group anymore. FRC President Tony Perkins has gone full birther: No, Mr. Perkins, there are no “legitimate questions” about President Obama’s place of birth. There … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Southern Death Penalty
Regular readers will know that I have mixed feelings on the death penalty, yet there is no denying that execution has been applied unequally. In fact, looking at this map from The Economist, there is a clear regional bias. States … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Florida Idiocracy
The University of Florida is eliminating its computer science department to save $1.4 million while increasing its athletic budget by $2 million. That’s right: a flagship university with tens of thousands of computers on campus is prioritizing sports over computer … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Authoritarian Homophobia
Science once again proves the obvious: homophobia is mainly the result of self-oppressed, latent homosexuality. The latest evidence comes from the University of Essex, which tested participants for discrepancy between their overt (i.e. stated) and implicit (demonstrated) sexual orientation: RESULTS: … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Nickelback Nugent Irony
The noon post is still cooking, and the subject matter has me listening to music matching the mood it inspires. As much as I despise Chad Kroeger, he does come up with catchy hard rock tunes; so given a choice … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Traffic Jam on the Hill
Still rejecting the Senate’s two-year bill, the House Republican majority has settled on an extension of the current transportation bill through the election. Democrats agreed to their inclusion of Keystone XL pipeline authorization in order to move forward to the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Ted and Dana
There is something not normal about a person who can hobnob with Secret Service agents and then speak of the man they guard with their lives as a coyote that should be shot. Ted Nugent will be treated like any … Continue reading
