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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Tag Archives: 2010
They Are The Fear They Want Us To Feel
In the aftermath of the Second World War, America experienced an economic boom that created the largest middle class on Earth. The problem, of course, was this prosperity did not extend to everyone. An immense underclass existed, especially for minority … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Alabama Crimson Tea Tide
Alabama is officially a red state at last. Republicans own the state house for the first time in 136 years: Stewart attributed the Republicans’ taking of the Legislature for the first time in 136 years, as well as every state … Continue reading
Nobody Wins
Get this: Blue Dogs went extinct in many Southern states. So much for the rational middle: What do Florida’s Allen Boyd, Georgia’s Jim Marshall and Maryland’s Frank Kratovil have in common? They are all prominent Blue Dogs, and they all … Continue reading
Rally For Sanity
By Marc Mitchell Two things: I don’t get out of bed at 3AM on a Saturday for just anyone, and I certainly don’t take five hour bus rides for the hell of it. So imagine my surprise, this past Saturday, … Continue reading
Undertow
Hedging bets, Nate Silver notes five ways the Republicans could do worse than expected. Making an excellent allusion to the 1998 midterm elections, he adds: The case that Democrats could do better than expected — not well, by any means, … Continue reading
The Government You Deserve
Joe Miller is all set to become the first US Senator from the militia movement despite the fact Alaska hates him: Miller is winning despite having the worst personal favorability numbers of the three candidates. Only 36% have a positive … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Macaca Moment
There’s nothing racist at all about telling people to vote for a “real” American instead of the (wink, nudge) implicitly less-American (i.e., not-white) Indian-American opponent, Raj Goyle.
The Tea Tide
Democrats on the Hill are prepping for big losses. But this paragraph caught my attention: For the record, the biggest one-day loss for the president’s party in modern times was in 1938, when voters expressed their impatience with the Depression … Continue reading
Trick Or Treat
In reverse chronological order: attendance for Colbert and Stewart was 215-250,000. One Nation was easily 100k. Appalachia Rising, which came out of nowhere to grab the world’s attention, was between one and two thousand. Trick or treat! The October Surprise … Continue reading
Dear Alex
This is a private correspondence, published now at the request of Alex’s mom. Dear Alex, Your mother tells me that you are ten years old and gifted, but she has a hard time motivating you. She wants to take you … Continue reading
Linchpin Of Progress
Have you ever seen an act of civil disobedience at a tea party? Me either. Maybe that’s a sign that tea party “issues” are unserious.
