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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: Muslims and modernity
Morning Awful: Un-American Islamophobe
It isn’t important whether Emmanuel Goldstein is real, it’s only important that we never humanize him. TLC has had the audacity to create a ‘reality’ show about American citizens practicing a non-stereotypical Islam in Dearborn, Michigan; the Religious Right, which has … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Butterball Halal
“American Thinker” is an Orwellian name for a right wing hack site. Case in point: arch-Islamophobe Pamela Geller (pictured) telling readers to boycott Butterball turkeys because they’re halal. In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced … Continue reading
Bobby McFerrin in Riyadh
Alaa Wardi covering Fi Hagat by Nancy Ajram. I’ve watched this ten times already to identify each part he’s doing. Ajram’s original here.
Afghanistan and the Obama Military (UPDATE)
Operation Mushtarak began this weekend. The Obama military is going to war under the banner of a non-English noun. Mushtarak is defined as “common,” “joint,” “combined,” “concurrent,” or “collective;” in the Arabic of international relations this word is used to … 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
