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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: video
Meeting Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet, religion journalist and author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power came to the University of North Alabama on September 16th, 2011 to talk about his new book, Sweet Heaven When I Die. … Continue reading
Black Helicopter Republicans
A mash-up of a town hall in Killen, Alabama with Representative Mo Brooks, Tea Party Express events, a peace protest, and the song “Unmarked Helicopters” by Soul Coughing.
The Outsiders
A video about right-wing extremists and the right-wing mouthpieces who apologize for them. Set to a mash-up of three different versions of “The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle.
Mo Brooks Uses Public Transit
Freshman Republican Representative Mo Brooks not only takes the Metro to work, he also took the extra-progressive step of not buying a car to live in DC. Hopefully, he can talk his fellow Republicans into fully-funding the transit backbone of … Continue reading
Midwest High Speed Rail Association
Not only did Minneapolis have awesome transit — buses, bike lanes, and light rail — but the Midwest High Speed Rail Association had a booth at the Netroots Nation confab. Manager of Education and Outreach Madeline Grennan was on hand … Continue reading
Lily Eskelsen on the Education Culture Wars
This is Lily Eskelsen, Vice President of the National Education Association. She can tell you all about the radical reconstruction that right-wing conservatives have in mind for public education. Name one political issue that doesn’t hinge on education — just … Continue reading
David Weigel at Netroots Nation
So I ran into David Weigel at Netroots, who quoted me: “I’m glad there’s not a hyper-focus on Obama,” says Matt Osborne, a videographer and blogger from Alabama. “I went down and filmed the new legislature in our state. It’s … Continue reading
Mo Brooks Town Hall
Freshman Representative Mo Brooks held a town hall meeting in Killen, Alabama on Thursday, June 30th. Killen is a suburban community that turned out for him in November 2010, helping him become the first Republican to represent Alabama’s fifth district … Continue reading
It is Decoration Day in Alabama
It is Decoration Day weekend in Alabama, a time when families gather to decorate the headstones of their loved ones and ancestors. But this weekend is seeing a lot of Alabama families hold funerals after the second most destructive tornado … Continue reading
Pillar of Fire in Florence
World-famous author Ray Bradbury is a playwright, too. But to see his unpublished plays, you must either visit Los Angeles, California or Florence, Alabama. The Man Upstairs is about a boy who discovers and creatively destroys a vampire. Cistern is … Continue reading
Wade In The Water
Who set the slaves free? Not Abraham Lincoln! A video about self-empowerment for Black History Month. Song performed by the Pine Hill Haints.
