June 2010
1 post
“Even scarier is why people have stopped thinking global warming is real. One...”
– Bill Maher (via azspot)
May 2010
10 posts
Tea Party, Health Care, “Reload”—the long view «... →
Right now, the health care bill that passed Congress this month is causing an almost inexplicable torrent of rage amongst a small portion of Americans. These are the small minority of very vocal people who always want to stop the American experiment of accepting and driving social change (see The Great American Experiment), a reactionary fraction who always believe the past was better than the...
Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law... →
Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently — and they seem to have come out on the losing end.
First, a Tennessee man was arrested after walking into his local county courthouse to try to effect a citizen’s arrest of a grand jury foreman who had refused to investigate President Obama’s...
Anti-Gay Leader Caught With Male Prostitute Pleads... →
When George Alan Rekers, a cofounder along with James Dobson of the Family Research Council and a leader in the ex-gay movement, was caught walking off a plane from Europe with a young male prostitute, he first insisted that he didn’t know the young man was an escort until halfway through their 10-day vacation.
“I had surgery,” Rekers told the Miami New Times, which broke the...
Crying Toddler - a haiku
toldorknown:
Lowered head to push Her mommy, but mommy moved. Thud! (the wall did not)
April 2010
10 posts
Losing our cherished freedoms
squashed:
The Tea Party is livid about our purported “loss of freedom”. But … we haven’t lost any freedoms under Obama. (Except fake freedoms like the freedom to get a tan without paying a 10% tax.)
At least, most of us haven’t lost any freedoms. If you’re Hispanic and in Arizona, you’re likely to be stopped and interrogated by the police for looking insufficiently white. But that’s not Obama’s...
“The measure, like the other anti-immigrant laws of recent years, is...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
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March 2010
3 posts
Classic | Talking Points Memo →
The Washington Post today has a profile of Mike Vanderboegh, the 57-year-old former militiaman from Alabama who last week posted a call for people to throw bricks through the windows at Democratic offices around the country to protest their votes for Health Care Reform. Whether the people who actually did this over the last week did so in reaction to his call to arms is not clear. But he’s...
February 2010
9 posts
Hacker Arrested in Billboard Porn Stunt →
Police in the southern city of Novorossiisk have arrested a man accused of hacking into a video billboard in Moscow last month and showing a pornographic movie that spawned a traffic jam as curious drivers slowed to watch the film.
(from Boing Boing)
“Coup succeeds in detaining Niger president, exciting teabaggers who misread the...”
– FARK
WatchDining Room Table Running Against Barney Frank in Massachusetts Primary
The Lyndon LaRouche pod person that Barney Frank eviscerated a little while back is running against him in the primary. Based on this video, she believes her confrontation with Frank was positive. I guess if you’re a screwball you probably think it made her look good.
I’ll be making popcorn if there’s a...
“The internet is becoming just like having an endless stream of Jehovah’s...”
– different church-lady
January 2010
14 posts
“I want to see what makes a trip this hard worth taking.”
– Silverado (via julie911)
One of my favorite movies. Paden said that if I recall correctly. He also said this:
I figure you should approach life like everybody’s your friend or nobody is. Don’t make much difference.
“One party can’t govern, one party won’t govern, third parties are structurally...”
– Cat Lady
A Video Treasury Of Brett Favre's Season-Ending... →
Comment win:
This is why they wouldn’t let anybody cover his receivers in the Wrangler commercials.
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Text 82013 To Donate $5 To The "Throw Pat...
southpol:brianvan
WatchHow to brew a good cup of coffee - Boing Boing
Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo →
Best. Headline. Ever. (h/t pastordan)
December 2009
3 posts
Raising the Federal Debt Ceiling →
heyjk:
Does it bother anyone else that this is being done because of re-election timing, not what is best for the country?
I don’t know about you, but when I’m low on cash, I start cutting back and really watch my spending. Why can’t government follow the same rules? When does it end?
It makes sense to cut spending when an individual is low on cash. However, the government is a different...
“The sun’s coming up tomorrow with or without you, and doesn’t care whether it...”
– Orson Swindle