Archive for the ‘Because of wow.’ Category
Pat Buchanan out at MSNBC
MSNBC dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on Thursday, four months after suspending him following the publication of his latest book. The book “Suicide of a Superpower” contained chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Critics called the book racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic, charges Buchanan denied. Pat Buchanan gave the [...]
February 17, 2012
· 
Soonergrunt · 
147 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow., DC Press Corpse, Good News For Conservatives, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity
I’ve Never Been More Ashamed To Be White
Looks like maybe I spoke too soon about CPAC not being as much of a freak show as it has been in the past: Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person? Something like a reverse racial draft? (via)
February 10, 2012
· John Cole · 209 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Clown Shoes
Religious liberty expands to include all employers, and all women, and all contraceptive coverage
Religious liberty is expanding very quickly. I don’t even know if I can keep up. We’ve gone from religious-affiliated entities (yesterday) to all businesses (today): That means removing the provision from the health care law altogether, he said, not simply changing it for Catholic employers and their insurers. He cited the problem that would create [...]
February 9, 2012
· Kay · 154 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow.
Guns Don’t Kill People
Abortions do: Well, here’s an interesting weapon! The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which collects and distributes money for Breast Cancer research and prevention is in the news for withdrawing its (relatively small) grant from Planned Parenthood. So the Komen Foundation doesn’t want to be associated with the nation’s largest abortion-provider. But they don’t mind partnering [...]
February 2, 2012
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Vagina Outrage
Always Look On the Bright Side of Rape
Just “WOW” is all I can really muster.
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 93 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow., Sociopaths
Required Reading, MLK Day edition
I’m ashamed to say that until Charlie Pierce in his own, powerful essay on MLK day pointed me to it, I had never actually read Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech to Congress urging—almost ordering—the legislators before him to pass the Voting Rghts Act. Here’s a sample: But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not [...]
January 16, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 136 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Don't Mourn, Organize, Excellent Links, Rare Sincerity
Some Things Must Be Posted…
...because there is no way I want to miss the Balloon Juice snarkasaurus masticating this: The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cColbert Super PAC Ad – Attack In B Minor For Stringswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive Have at it folks—and don’t worry, there’s plenty for everyone.
January 15, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 89 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Election 2012, Goldman Sachs, Romney of the Uncanny Valley, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Real Voter Fraud Caught on Tape
Excellent: It was one of the few — if not the only — coordinated efforts to attempt in-person voter fraud, and it was pulled off by affiliates of conservative activist James O’Keefe at polling places in New Hampshire Tuesday night. All of it part of an attempt to prove the need for voter ID laws [...]
January 11, 2012
· John Cole · 90 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow., Teabagger Stupidity
Early Morning Open Thread: Silverback
Via Squee, h/t commentor PeakVT. What’s on the agenda for this interstitial Tuesday of the not-quite-holiday week?
December 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 21 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Open Thread
Weaker Sauce
I have to disagree with Cole’s post in response to my post linking Milt Shook’s post. (This is the inception of BJ flame wars.) Calling the PPACA “Obamacare,” or calling a Kleenex a “Kroger brand tissue” essentially assigns labels to concepts that are by and large identical. A Kleenex is a tissue; Obamacare is the [...]
December 17, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 247 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow.
Your tax dollars at work
Today is World AIDS Day. Globally, more than 33 million people have HIV, and this day serves as an opportunity for people worldwide to unit in the fight against HIV. In doing so, VA medical centers across the country offer Veterans free confidential HIV tests. The Department of Veterans Affairs leads the country in HIV/AIDS [...]
December 1, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 82 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Domestic Affairs, Tax Policy, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Vouchercare
I Want to Bite the Hand That Feeds Me
Elvis Costello has a new boxed set out and he doesn’t want you to buy it: Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire. All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather [...]
November 29, 2011
· mistermix · 40 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow.
Shorter Rand Paul on the Cain Scandal: “Bitches, Man. Bitches.”
Rand Paul will say anything. Rand Paul is all torn up about this Herman Cain business. Not because sexual harassment in the workplace is a scourge that should be eradicated so that women and men at work can concentrate on putting those red covers on their TPS reports, rather than warding off unwanted games of [...]
November 2, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 20 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow., Crock Pot Craziness, Fucked-up-edness, Serenity Now!, Seriously, Vagina Outrage
Time Warner Ordered Employee to Stop Administering CPR to Dying Co-Worker and Get Back to Work
Unbelievable. Looks like Time Warner has a bit of a PR debacle on its hands. A Time Warner customer service representative, Julia Nelson, died at her desk at a Time Warner customer call center in Garfield Heights, Ohio last month. It turns out that a Time Warner employee (who refused to be interviewed on camera) [...]
October 23, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 101 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow.
Occupy Santa Cruz: Bank of America Threatens to Arrest Customers Trying to Close Their Accounts
“You can’t be a customer and a protestor.” This is bananas. From Stephen Foster at Addicting Info: Two protesters involved with Occupy Santa Cruz in California walked into Bank of America earlier this week to close their own accounts as part of the national protest against the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street, which has [...]
October 17, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 128 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Assholes, Because of wow., Crab Bucket Politics
