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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: Times Daily
Stretching To Blame Government
It seems I am the only letter-writer my local newspaper has ever fact-checked. This is classic Alabama wingnut run rampant: First, I will confess I am not an oil driller, but I was trained as a physicist and have some … Continue reading
From the Department of Couldn’t-See-It-Coming
Dr. William Roddy, a Florence, Alabama psychiatrist, has been arrested along with his wife, a few piles of cash, and lots of pills. All those who are surprised may now raise their hands. No? This is why I shake my … Continue reading
GO TIMES DAILY
I can’t believe I’m actually reading this: FLORENCE – The TimesDaily is asking a Lauderdale County Circuit judge to temporarily halt the sale of Coffee Health Group and its assets to a private company until documents related to the sale … Continue reading
Biographical Quote
DANIEL GILES/TimesDaily “Call me a traitor, tell me to shut up and sit silent while the republic is ruined, and I’ll show you the symbol of freedom located between my index and ring fingers. And I will be anything but … Continue reading
The One They Didn’t Print
Perhaps not surprisingly, the Times Daily didn’t run my response to this tinfoil-hat hackery. To the Editor: Lawrence Swift blames a “shallow, misinformed and apathetic citizenry” for “acquiescence in the face of egregious usurpations of power.” For “shallow, misinformed and … Continue reading
My Birthday Present from the Times Daily
They printed my letter! Yay! Just last night at the steakhouse where my family took me for birthday dinner, two fans stopped to introduce themselves and say how much they liked my letters to the editor, and I had to … Continue reading
Letter to the Times Daily
This letter ran today in the Times Daily. It’s a response to a classic of hooplehead wisdom from a Mr. Jimmy Wayne Cosby. (Don’t serial killers go by all three names?) Wayne Cosby has a habit of using the president-elect’s … Continue reading
