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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: terrorism
Broadway Bomber
This is not the first time that Islamic terrorists have targeted a musical theatre event: In general, terrorism targets the institutions of the middle class: shopping centers, restaurants, malls, and venues. The Olympics are a target precisely because of their … Continue reading
Random Insanity
Man shoots at middle-schoolers, gets tackled by teachers. The entire paranoid basis of right-wing gun culture debunked in one incident by one person who, for whatever reason, thought shooting kids was okay. I can’t wait to find out who this … Continue reading
Ripping Cheney’s Heart Out
While Dick Cheney was hospitalized for chest pains, the criminal justice system was busy disproving his entire doctrine. AP via HuffPo: NEW YORK — A former airport shuttle driver accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack … Continue reading
Morning Awful
There’s a fantastic analysis at Salon about Stack’s nemesis, Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which removed that protection from certain “technical personnel” — specifically singling out those who provided services as an “engineer, designer, drafter, computer … Continue reading
Abdulmutallab Breaks Without Torture
The underpants bomber is once again giving information under questioning. This is according to Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence. FBI agents didn’t even need the waterboard: according to the MSNBC report, Abdulmutallab is now cooperating as part of … Continue reading
Reading Abdulmutallab’s Rights
The nontroversy over the underpants bomber’s Miranda warning has hit a peak with this LA Times story today: FBI agents questioned him at the hospital for just under an hour. They did not give him the Miranda warning, which advises … Continue reading
Begging For Armageddon
I was catching up on the story of India’s terror alert when I spotted this buried far below the lede: The terror alert came just days after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that a syndicate of terror groups affiliated … Continue reading
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
"Mistakes Were Made"
There’s been some discussion elsewhere about Lake Superior State University’s annual list of banished words. One phrase I would like to see banished is “mistakes were made,” which is both passive (as if to suggest the speaker did not make … Continue reading
Abdulmutallib Is Already Talking
So I’m reading about the electronic backtrail of Mr. Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up an airplane with a bomb stuffed in his underwear, and found this at the very end: Still, some of Farouk1986′s writings offer a hopeful tone. … Continue reading
