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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: Republican tinfoil hattery
Mars Needs Republicans
This is why I listen to Bob Kincaid: Or as my pal Zirgar puts it: It just occurred to me that there’s plenty of room for the red staters to live on the big, pink, sweaty gas giant known as … Continue reading
Zombie Sequel
Maddow notes the zombie overlords’ renewed vigor:
The Obama You Voted For
On the left, response to the president’s pantsing of House Republicans has been universal relief. Finally, more than one commenter has declared, this is the Obama I voted for. We’ve all been frustrated by the wishy-washy wishfulness of bipartisanship, haven’t … Continue reading
Letter To The Editor
Teddy is laughing over this letter printed in the Times Daily today: Fascinating. Seven years after quoting Theodore Roosevelt here in my vain attempt to alert readers to an abomination of tyranny (i.e. the Bush administration), someone uses the same … Continue reading
Methinks House Republicans Protest Too Much
Republicans were holding off asking for censure last night after Rep. Alan Grayson described the GOP prescription for sick people as “die quickly.” Grayson refuses to apologize. He’s calling their bluff; there’s no way they want Americans to be reminded … Continue reading
Jumping The Couch
Contrasting what the right wing media said about Obama’s back-to-school speech with what he actually said, it’s clear that they’ve jumped the couch: It’s instructive to remember the effect this had on the career of Tom Cruise: It was so … Continue reading
Obama’s Socialism-Free Student Address
The entire text is available at the White House website. I’ve just spend the last hour reading all 2,348 words through three times in a fruitless search for the socialist agenda. Instead, I found a dozen references to the importance … Continue reading
Crying Wolf
As Republicans promote tinfoil-hat outrage over Obama’s plan to address the nation’s schoolchildren Tuesday, Robert Gibbs brushes it all off. From the AP: WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama’s plan … Continue reading
Obama Will Hypnotize Your Children (UPDATE)
All over America, wingnuts are tightening the tinfoil around their children’s heads in anticipation of Obama’s back-to-school speech next Tuesday. From the New York Times: HOUSTON — President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday … Continue reading
Health Care Reform and Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Really, it must be true because I read it on the internet! Here’s the backstory from Salon: Officials at the Centers for Disease Control, showing touching naiveté about the current political environment, are weighing an initiative to encourage male circumcision, … Continue reading
