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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: Newt Gingrich
Newt Is Forever Alone
Of course I was gonna do something with that thing from Thursday.
Newt Gingrich Rageface
The photo on the left is from Charles Ommanney of Newsweek. It makes Newt look like a ragecomic, the memetastic drawings that populate websites like Reddit and 4Chan. Users make ragecomics with a set of template characters, of which Mega … Continue reading
Juan Williams Wakes the Hell Up
Commentator Juan Williams was serving two masters: FOX Noise, which has no standards, and NPR, which has high standards. He couldn’t serve both masters to the full satisfaction of either. Now that he no longer appears on the public airwaves, … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich Or Cobra Commander?
Check all that apply.
Newt Gingrich Explains it All for You
Newt Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House ever to be sanctioned in office. Univisión’s Jorge Ramos asked him about his Clinton-era affair hypocrisy yesterday, and he took the time to explain how his screwing-around was totally different because … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Gingrich Geller Gambit
Newt Gingrich will blow any dog whistle and broadcast any bullshit. It takes a craven, soulless person to say things like “we are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism” with a straight face. Yesterday, the GOP … Continue reading
There Are No Words
No captions today. None needed.
Life on Mars
The debate last night included some astounding nonsense about the president’s space policy. Moreover, the remarks in question are counterfactual and dissonant. From the fast transcript, edited for coherence: Romney: Get rid of subsidies. I spent time with 8 people … Continue reading
Wall Street is Technically a Street in America
So I guess we can’t call this a gaffe from Mitt Romney. Nor is it a laugh line, because it isn’t funny. Mitt Romney is American street the way Hot Topic is punk: through plasticity, monoculture, and artifice. Mitt Romney … Continue reading
BREAKING: Newt Gingrich is Really Dwight Schrute
This explains everything. The top is Gingrich, bottom is Rainn Wilson’s character on The Office. You be the judge! Via Reddit.
Morning Awful: Gingrich Gaining
Newt Gingrich has overtaken Mitt Romney in South Carolina by attacking his record at Bain — and amping the Obama rhetoric up to eleven: At a town hall meeting of attended by about 200 people at the Art Trail Gallery, a … Continue reading
