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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: Producerism
Morning Awful: Free Nick Hanauer
So CEO, author, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer apparently gave a TED talk on income inequality that isn’t being posted yet. National Journal reports on a hot potato: Hanauer’s talk “probably ranks as one of the most politically controversial talks … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Romney Class War on Moms
Romney says women should vote for him because they really care about the economy and jobs. But when it comes to specific issues like equal pay for equal work, or birth control coverage in their insurance plans, or paid sick … Continue reading
Age of Uncertainty: The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
Episode two of John Kenneth Galbraith’s seminal 1977 series about economics, history and politics.
The Conservative Song Remains the Same
I’m a big fan of Gordon Skeene’s Newstalgia blog at Crooks & Liars, where I found this feature on H.L. Hunt last night. Hunt sounds exactly like an Atlas Shrugged-thumping tea party conservative, and his political activism is reminiscent of … Continue reading
Romney’s 1% Humor
I can’t stop laughing, but it’s a rueful laugh of pre-schadenfreude. Because this is only one percent funny: Romney’s story involved the time more than 50 years ago that his father, George, an American Motors executive, shut down a factory … Continue reading
Rand Paul Wants to Comfort the Comfortable
The video above comes from ThinkProgress, which runs down Senator Paul’s inflated oil and gas industry employment numbers. But what made me snort was his assertion that American society should “glorify those who make a profit and employ people,” because … Continue reading
Friday Night Open Thread: David Wong Vs. Rich People
I’ve been a fan of David Wong for nigh-on a decade – in fact, it was that circle of the Internet that taught me all that I know about assembling a horribly misguided comic with the GIMP and my own … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Gas Tax Culture War
John Mica is the Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Speaking to the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Tuesday, he defended his austere transportation budget and sprawl-friendly priorities: “anyone who thinks it’s going to get … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Republican Economics
Conservative presidents are terrible for the American economy. This dose of reality via Ashby at Bob Cesca’s place. But the truth may actually be that whenever a Democrat brings better times, the one percent puts its political money behind a conservatively … Continue reading
Occupy Restaurant Kitchens
This is apparently real, in which case screw this guy. I want his name and photos so there can be a “least wanted” flyer for every restaurant kitchen everywhere. Wait staff have a hard enough time as it is without … Continue reading
