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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: wingnutosphere
What’s Wrong With Wingnuts, In A Nutshell
They double down on the absolutism and purge their party in the process. Demanding purity, they lobby for a retrograde agenda. Weigel points to three planks in Maine’s new GOP platform: – Return to the principles of Austrian Economics, and … Continue reading
Teabaggers Failing
The wingnutosphere is restless; right-wing netizens seem to be in a mood for choking games with Michael Steele’s cash flow: Earlier today, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin published one of what has become a series of posts about previous donors to … Continue reading
Kristol Quoted
An exercise in surrealism via ThinkProgress: WALLACE: Bill, you certainly are an expert in this area. The two leading candidates seem to be the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the original prime minister [Ayad] Allawi. From the U.S. point … Continue reading
Teh Stupid™ Must Be Destroyed
I am dealing with wingnuts of left AND right persuasion all over my newest YouTube offer. My favorite so far: Wingnut: Why didnt the building come down in seconds like WTC buildings at 9/11. uummm thats weird. I guess the … Continue reading
Joseph Stack Was Unregistered
Social media is already full of wingnuttery on the subject of Joseph Stack. Not just Facebook Fan pages, of course, but YouTube videos proclaiming him a hero — or declaring a government psyop in progress. I missed most of the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: “And Yet It Melts”
Among random crap on Twitter, I found a gem: the so-called “American Voice” website contains anti-intellectual hate speech. The problem, according to “Mr. Silence Dogood Houston, Texas” (once again invoking the rule that wingnuts lack an irony gene), The more … Continue reading
Scammy Smell Smites Silly Sophist
I’ve been forecasting this meltdown since last April. From Alan Colmes’s Liberaland, we learn that tea party panjandrum Erick Erickson will not attend the astroturfers convention in Nashville because it “smells scammy:” I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to … Continue reading
When Nontroversy Dies
The Weekly Standard claimed the White House was threatening to close a Nebraska Air Force base to twist Sen. Ben Nelson’s arm on health care reform. Twenty GOP Senators howled for an investigation. The problem: Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) … Continue reading
Contracts and ACORN
So the wingnutosphere has its panties all twisted over the news that the Department of Justice has ruled the Obama administration must continue to pay ACORN for services rendered under contract. To be clear, this is the DoJ answering a … Continue reading
Worst Blogger
Birther apologist and Heritage Foundation hack Thomas Lifson looks at this photograph and sees exactly what he wants to see: Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, … Continue reading
Embracing Teh Wacky™
Teh Wacky™ (n): mainstream figures adopting fringe ideas in pursuit of press attention, esp. while waging culture war. Since when do robbers target their victims for kidnapping, transport them to the middle of nowhere, and beat them to death? On … Continue reading
