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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: Paranoia and the Post 9/11 World
Two Swords Are Enough
I was selling flags at a gun show all weekend and had to spend yesterday evening catching up with a news cycle that’s finally catching up with me. Frank Rich recognized the teabag terror and its enablers: Are these politicians … Continue reading
The Revolution Will Be Monetized
Remember the birther-mercial? It was basically a fax scam playing to late-nite rubes across the south: The ironically-named Gary Kreep, who produced that video under a 501(c)4 for-profit corporation, turns out to also be Executive Director of A California-based PAC … Continue reading
idiocracy
The Texas School Board has officially jumped the couch: 9:40 – We’re just picking ourselves up off the floor. The board’s far-right faction has spent months now proclaiming the importance of emphasizing America’s exceptionalism in social studies classrooms. But today … Continue reading
I Was Talking About This Months Ago
Seed bank commercials are right up there with G. Gordon Liddy hawking gold. Ever since the Color of Change campaign began, Faux Noise has grown more and more like a televisual version of AM hate talk radio — right down … Continue reading
Maddow Destroys Liz Cheney
And in doing so, parodies the Beck formula to hilarious new heights:
Morning Awful
A Glenn Beck fan is no longer satisfied with his insanity, so she makes the leap to Alex Jones. Meta-wacky! I love it when Jones gripes about the guy who stole his act.
Underpants Conspiracy Theory
Oh bloody hell. Can there not be an event without accusations of a false-flag attack from the Alex Jones cult? Abdulmutallab is obviously a lost and disturbed young man. That someone from India took pity on him is not evidence … Continue reading
Actual Lessons Of 9/11
I’m taking a semi-vacation from blogging while I finish the book, but as it is important to post every day I will take part in the decade-ending hoopla. Here, then, are ten ACTUAL lessons from the defining tragedy of our … Continue reading
Ellison’s Reply
Ben Sarlin at The Daily Beast reports on a GOP challenger in the heavily-Democratic district of America’s first Muslim congressman: A large section of her Web site is devoted to outlining her views on Islam, including snippets like this one: … Continue reading
Giuliani Argues With Himself
This weekend, Rudy Giuliani delivered a soundbite destined for skewering by Jon Stewart: From ThinkProgress: In fact, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani praised the prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers: -– “‘It should show that our … Continue reading
Piltdown Politics In Pittsburgh? (UPDATE)
This video is circulating the ‘net at high speed. It allegedly shows men in military uniform grabbing a G-20 protester in Pittsburgh, shoving him in a car, and hauling him away to an unknown location. Note I say “allegedly,” because … Continue reading
