Archive for March, 2010

It’s Best to Wrap Your Savior Up in Cellophane

by mistermix

After Texas Lt. Governor/Boromander David Dewhurst denounced the staging of the play Corpus Christi at Tarleton State University, since it depicts Jesus as gay, the play was cancelled by the “professor” (Mary Anne wasn’t available): The professor cited safety and security concerns for the students as well as the need to maintain an orderly academic [...]

March 30, 2010 · mistermix · 46 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Good News For Conservatives, Religion, Republican Stupidity

Turn your good side on

by Angry DougJ

A friend of mine sent this to me a few weeks ago. This is the real deal. I don’t care what Tom Friedman says, the Chinese aren’t producing stuff like this. Consider this an open thread.

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 112 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Music, Open Thread

Absence of empathy

by Angry DougJ

Ezra Klein edges ever closer to being Froomkined: For Robert Samuelson, the fact that the Affordable Care Act is fully paid for and in fact reduces the deficit isn’t good enough. “If the administration has $1 trillion or so of spending cuts and tax increases over a decade, all these monies should first cover existing [...]

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 80 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Good News For Conservatives

Just Like Jesus!

by John Cole

I basically go to church about as often as the Nets make the playoffs Cubs win the World Series (might as well be honest), so my memory of the religious mythology might be off, but I didn’t remember this piece of lore: The leader of the nation’s second-largest diocese urged his congregation to pray for [...]

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Religion

Never Too Young to Try

by John Cole

This is absolutely insane: A judge in Pennsylvania has denied a request from a 12-year-old homicide suspect to have his case transferred to juvenile court. Jordan Brown is facing adult charges in the February 2009 shooting death of his father’s pregnant girlfriend, and a judge turned down a petition to have the case transferred from [...]

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 105 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, General Stupidity

Oh, the Humanity

by John Cole

I’m not sure if it is possible to take your own life by repeatedly slamming your testicles in a closing car door, but I would rather die that way by my own hand than spend one minute watching Matt Welch and Ann Althouse on Bloggingheads TV. What sadist thought up that nastiness? Seriously. Why?

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 35 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Going Galt, wine blogging, WTF?

An Update On History’s Greatest Monster

by John Cole

I wonder what the evil and vile Jimmy Carter is up to: A global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease is tantalizingly close to success. The parasitic infection, caused by a worm that can grow three feet long before it emerges from a patient’s body, now affects just a few thousand people per year. Almost [...]

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 49 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs

The Old (Un)Reliables

by Anne Laurie

Joe Conanson at Salon reintroduces an old favorite from the Republican scum stables in a shiny new scandal: A potentially damaging scandal erupted today that implicates Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Oliver North in the worst kind of charitable fraud. According to complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS, the [...]

March 29, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 70 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Good News For Conservatives

Chuck Open Thread

by John Cole

Have at it.

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 52 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

The only survivors of the National People’s Gang

by Angry DougJ

I don’t know why I find the Hutaree rank system so funny (h/t Bronze Rifleman Doctor Science): RANKS: RADOK [RD] BORAMANDER [BM] ZULIF [ZL] ARKON [AK] GOLD RIFLEMAN [GR] SILVER RIFLEMAN [SR] BRONZE RIFLEMAN [BR] LUKORE [LK] MASTER GUNNER [MG] SENIOR GUNNER [SG] GUNNER [GN] I think this may be an example of the post-wingnut [...]

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 139 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Mayans Now

So Hard To Tell

by John Cole

It really is rough trying to figure out just who is a terrorist and who is a patriot these days. I say we send ‘em to Gitmo and subject them to some frat boy pranks. Ya know- splash a little water in their faces.

March 29, 2010 · John Cole · 30 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Wingnut Event Horizon

That explains the quest for Drudge links

by Angry DougJ

VandeHarris (via Felix Salmon) on Politico’s core mission: Our fundamental model is not driven by traffic. It’s trying to be as essential to the conversation of Washington insiders, people who live and breathe this, whose careers depend upon it. As pointless a mission as that is (if indeed that is its real mission, which I [...]

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 43 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Media

What can Brown do for you?

by Angry DougJ

New allegations emerge in BondgeGate! The Republican National Committee gave nearly $2,000 to a Southern California GOP contributor for meal expenses at Voyeur West Hollywood, a lesbian-themed California nightclub that features topless dancers wearing horse-bits and other bondage gear, according to newly filed disclosure records. The RNC said Monday it is investigating the disbursement of [...]

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 95 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Green Balloons

Of human bondage

by Angry DougJ

The RNC is pushing back on the Steele bondage club story from the Carlsonington Post: The spokesman said: “We are investigating the expenditure in question. The story willfully and erroneously suggests that the expenditure in question was one belonging to the chairman. This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer. The chairman was never [...]

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 139 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Green Balloons

Cantor receives real threat

by Angry DougJ

Presumably, this guy is a member of Democracy For America, who was egged on by Howard Dean’s extreme rhetoric. In any case, glad the authorities are on it and here’s hoping that neither Cantor nor any other member of Congress continues to be threatened.

March 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 57 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques

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