Archive for October, 2010

Texas is Messing With Itself

by ABL

Christine O’Donnell Would Not Approve I was in a rollicking good mood today, y’all.  I took half the day off; I got my hair did; and after running around to various purported postal service locations to pick up a package containing the keys to my friend’s pad in D.C. (at this point, I can’t really [...]

October 28, 2010 · ABL · 67 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Fucked-up-edness, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Politics, Teabagger Stupidity

World Series Open Thread

by John Cole

Some group named Lady Antebellum is singing the anthem, and, as usual, I have never heard of them. It did remind me of something I was thinking about earlier, though. My boiling vessel/electric teapot/whatever it is called died this morning, so I had no coffee until I got on the road, and I briefly thought [...]

October 28, 2010 · John Cole · 139 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

A Culture of Indifference

by John Cole

This is pretty damning stuff: Halliburton knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Thursday. In [...]

October 28, 2010 · John Cole · 96 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fucked-up-edness

Momentary Outrage Recess/Complete Non Sequitur QOD

by Tom Levenson

Someone kindly greeting me here asked for a little science writing in the mix of my posts here. Happy to oblige, especially when, as today, I found myself overwhelmed by the thought of some of the folks who may well be taking power soon. In that context, I just had to cut myself off from [...]

October 28, 2010 · Tom Levenson · 59 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology

World Killing Event: The BP Disaster May End Life on Earth

by ABL

No seriously, we’re all gonna die. So apparently, the BP disaster is going to kill us all. Like, seriously. I’ve been sitting here staving off my increasing annoyance at life; meanwhile, none of it may matter because we’re all about to die. So, you know how BP and the federal government have been arresting journalists [...]

October 28, 2010 · ABL · 163 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Humor, Rumormongering, Science and Technology, Seriously, Sweet Fancy Moses!, WTF?

Driving Mr. Morgan Freeman

by ABL

Oh for fuck’s sake. I actually yelled that out loud when I watched this video. By way of background, Obama has been stumping for various candidates and using his “Republicans drove the car into the ditch” metaphor. Analogy? Simile? Rhetoric? Kenyan Crazytalk? At any rate, here’s what he’s been saying: He said Republicans had driven [...]

October 28, 2010 · ABL · 173 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Fucked-up-edness, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, I Hate All of You, Media, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Stupidity

Flashback to the Future

by John Cole

This has so much win in it that I can barely contain my glee.

October 28, 2010 · John Cole · 188 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Clinton Campaign, PUMA = Propping Up McCain's Ass

Another day, another example of douchebaggery from Lanny Davis

by Angry DougJ

He’s everywhere! Here he is fighting against a proposal to regulate for-profit schools: Davis held a conference call criticized (sic) the original proposal, saying it would block career college students from learning about new technologies and getting training for green jobs. (h/t BGinChi)

October 28, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 118 Comments
Posted in: Assholes

New Business Model: Put Everyone in Jail

by mistermix

The Arizona immigration law was drafted by corporations: It was last December at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Inside, there was a meeting of a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. Insiders call it ALEC.It’s a membership organization of state legislators and powerful corporations and associations, such as the tobacco company Reynolds [...]

October 28, 2010 · mistermix · 69 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything

“Better Than Us”: The Sore Winners

by Anne Laurie

Tom Junod at Esquire has an excellent piece on the well-to-do, older white people who he calls “America’s Super Minority“: ... Republicans, who once decried the rise of identity politics, now practice it so relentlessly, so ruthlessly, and above all so successfully that they’ve created a beleaguered minority where only a cosseted majority stood before. [...]

October 28, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 100 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Excellent Links, Flash Mob of Hate

Lest We Forget

by Tom Levenson

I know, I’m mining Godwin a lot (mix metaphors, much?—ed.) But like ABL and just about everyone else with a conscience and an ounce of human sympathy, I was more than outraged by Clint McCance’s personal little wish.  Isn’t it just special that someone thinks that the recent  series of gay teen suicide is not [...]

October 28, 2010 · Tom Levenson · 41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Uncategorized

I Knew A Guy Once

by mistermix

Though I agree with DougJ that conservatives are allergic to facts, they do love anecdotes. Nothing disproves years of global warming research like a cold day in July, and food stamps are a waste of money because some guy somewhere traded them for a flat-screen TV. As soon as a conservative pundit has found one [...]

October 28, 2010 · mistermix · 33 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment

Arkansas School Board Official Disapproves of “Purple Fag Day”

by ABL

Arkansas? No way. URkansas. Well, well, well. What have we here? Another addition to the Asshat Hall of Fame. Last week, a lot of people wore purple, or changed their Facebook pictures to something purply as part of the Go Purple movement, the purpose of which was to raise awareness about bullying of LGBTQ youth. [...]

October 28, 2010 · ABL · 86 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crock Pot Craziness, WTF?

Getting out their old Red Shirts…

by Dennis G.

It is election season and once again the minions of Wingnutopia are getting their old Red Shirts out of the closet to go once more into the fray to see how many voters they can intimidated, how many voters they can block from the polls and how they can continue the voter suppression effort they’ve [...]

October 28, 2010 · Dennis G. · 83 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Flash Mob of Hate

Any Major dude will tell you

by Angry DougJ

I don’t have much time to post but I found this fascinating (via The Impolitic). This is Major Garrett, formerly of Fox News: “For a certain amount of marketing points of view, Fox actually wants to keep that polarization and say, look, we’re different. ...That is an embedded part of the marketing that surrounded what [...]

October 27, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Our Failed Media Experiment

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