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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: Sunday Sermon
Rabbi Boteach Plays God
In response to the question as to whether suicide bombers go to heaven, Imam Rauf said, “One of the things that we are taught is never to say somebody will go to hell or somebody will go to heaven. It … Continue reading
Crowd Science
Watch carefully. The crowd allegedly consists of two quadrillion people. It’s a time lapse over two hours, but the crowd is still assembling at the 16 second mark — fully one-third of the way into the video: The main crowd … Continue reading
Highway To Mogadishu
Eisenhower — the Republican president Obama most resembles in policy terms — made a name for himself early in his career by leading a convoy across the country by road. Experiences on that nearly-impassable and unnavigable American highway system informed … Continue reading
When ‘No’ Is All You Have
I’ll call upon the Beastie Boys for a hymn to GOP sabotage: The president wants to turn $30 billion of borrowed federal money into $300 billion of small business lending to unfreeze the credit markets. Of course, the GOP says … Continue reading
Defying Gravity
Washington Post says Republicans are running away from the issues: (T)he strategist who Republicans are studying most closely this year isn’t Gingrich: It’s Rahm Emanuel, the former Democratic congressman from Chicago and current White House chief of staff. Emanuel led … Continue reading
The Rich Are Different
Once upon a time in America, people earned their way to the middle class by picking fruit. The idea was that if you worked hard enough, you might one day own an orchard. But even owning orchards is no ticket … Continue reading
Conservatism Washes Up On Alabama
Huffington Post editorializes: By contrast, one suspects the American public would be much happier if Allen — or Obama, for that matter — simply said: No, we don’t trust BP. They have proven they are not to be trusted. We … Continue reading
Flotilla Of The Tennessee
As this posts, I am actually away from the computer floating on a river. A canoe flotilla will be gathering trash in Tennessee this weekend; great fun and camping will be experienced. I might come home to a different world … Continue reading
Whither Counterinsurgency?
The future isn’t going to police itself. As the occupation of Iraq winds down and we begin assessing the total costs in blood and treasure, General McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy is coming under fire again — and from unexpected directions: The … Continue reading
Koch’s Suckers
This is an epic deconstruction from Maddow. It is the most absurd form of right-wing projection that all of media and government are in the hands of some sinister conspiracy. In fact, that conspiracy theory itself is the conspiracy. Koch … Continue reading
