It always seems like the people who complain the most about other people sucking money from taxpayers are the people who actually do it the most (this may be a corollary to the premise that those people who bash gays the most are themselves afraid to come out of the closet). The latest example is […]
After the 2010 midterm elections, the Republicans declared that their top priority was creating jobs. Mike Stanfill started keeping a list of all Republican Congressional activity, to see if the Republicans were telling the truth. As Stanfill notes, the fact that his list “has reached its currently imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new […]
Ironically, Rachel Maddow is shocked about Obama’s Christmas Card. But that’s ok, Fox News and Sarah Palin are on the job pointing out this latest blatant attack on Christmas. How dare Obama!? Personally, I can’t decide if this is merely shoddy reporting on the part of Fox News, or if they are going to attack […]
Everyone downloads copyrighted files. Everyone. A new website tracks what files have been downloaded using bittorrent by you (or any other user, by IP address). Just click on the link, and it will tell you if you (or someone at the same IP address) has been naughty. Now the hypocritical part. The same data has […]
© Henry Payne Lowe’s home improvement stores pulled their advertising from the TLC network’s show “All-American Muslim” after the conservative Christian group “Florida Family Association” mounted an email campaign against the show, saying that it was “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values“. I guess […]
See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality… That’s why you get to go to jail and I don’t. – Newt Gingrich in 1996. In 1997 Gingrich proposed a law that would invoke the death penalty for possession of […]
A New York Times Book Review of memoirs by Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld is notable for it’s imminently quotable subtitle: In retrospect, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney realize they were right about everything. ©David Horsey The books themselves appear to be a waste of wood fiber but the review, Memories of the Bush Administration, […]
Yes, you’ve seen clips of Newt lips flapping about Libya before but it is worth watching again and again because without repeated viewing, it is hard to grasp that even a politician as base as Gingrich can spin 180 degrees this fast with such appearance of sincerity and no hint of embarrassment. The two opposing […]
How ironic to use a woman’s voice as the interface to a digital assistant that avoids even the hint of reproductive controversy. RH Reality Check reports: After experimenting with a few easy reproductive health questions, it was discovered that Siri appears to have a blind spot when it comes to women’s health. Via the Abortioneers: […]
For some time now, I’ve planned to launch a series of posts called “One Man Wrestling”. Today was to be the first but to my horror the Democratic National Committee released their version called Mitt vs Mitt yesterday afternoon. Even worse they used many of the same clips and did a far better job than […]
Glenn Greenwald published an outstanding rebuke of our apparent policy of endless war Nov 23rd in Salon. I think that a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner would benefit from reading more Greenwald: Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought […]
©Mike Luckovich Mitt Romney’s very first 2012 campaign TV ad is, according to Politifact, a flat out pants-on-fire lie. There is a perverse line of deceit leading from Geoge Bush’s 2000 primary campaign, through McCain’s 2008 primary campaign to Romney’s current primary campaign. McCain’s loss to George Bush in 2000 was largely due to a […]
This cartoon falls into the category that directly replicates reality. Like Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin – what’s the difference between the cartoon and the real thing? – Iron Filing
This gem is from Mike Stanfill’s blog, The Far Left Side: From the sublime to the truly ghastly, presidential contender and noted scam artist Newt Gingrich opened his big yap to complain about those mean old Occupiers at a Republican forum in Iowa this past weekend. One line that caught my ear was the following: […]
©Bob Englehart In this video of Newt Gingrich speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Nov 18th (warning: starts with commercial), Newt Gingrich said: It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid. Most of these schools ought to get rid of […]
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