Archive for the ‘Crab Bucket Politics’ Category
Shit jobs Mitt Romney never had
If you, like me, lacked the foresight to choose multimillionaire parents, you’ve probably experienced a series of shit jobs at some point in your life – low-paying, unpleasant employment for which you were nonetheless at least grudgingly grateful because, you know, food. Mitt Romney chose his parents so wisely that he never had to worry [...]
January 19, 2012
· 
Betty Cracker · 
312 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Crab Bucket Politics, Election 2012, General Stupidity, Politics
Doug Rubin on Elizabeth Warren: That Was Before She Hired Me!
The Boston Globe is, so far, cautiously pro-Warren, but that takes second place to tweaking a former hireling of the competition: In a former life, after he was Deval Patrick’s campaign manager and chief of staff but before he took leadership of Elizabeth Warren’s US Senate race, Doug Rubin worked part-time as a columnist for [...]
October 26, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 47 Comments
Posted in: Crab Bucket Politics, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for Senate 2012
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
Minority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Pinnochio) is Lying About President Obama’s Jobs Plan…
...wears flammable pants True to the GOP plan to make sure not to put any Americans back to work in the hopes that the economy and high jobless rate will kill President Obama’s reelection chances, Kevin McCarthy gleefully reported that everybody hates President Obama’s jobs bill. He then linked the blog post (which I assume [...]
September 14, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 26 Comments
Tags: Crab Bucket Politics cracks me up even though I don't know what it means. · Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Crab Bucket Politics, Serenity Now!, Seriously
Anti-White Bias on the Rise? Really? Oy vey.
I’m just a squirrel tryin’ ta get a nut. A recent study indicates that white folks see race relations as a zero sum game, i.e., if black people get an inch, white people lose an inch. From the Wall Street Journal: Both white Americans and black Americans perceive significant progress in the fight against anti-black bias, [...]
May 13, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 103 Comments
Posted in: Crab Bucket Politics, Crock Pot Craziness, KMBA
Things I Really Wish Were Online, Progressive Self-Sabotage Edition
In the November 2010 issue of Harpers, Susan Faludi published “American Electra: Feminism’s ritual matricide“: No one who has been engaged in feminist politics and thought for any length of time can be oblivious to an abiding aspect of the modern women’s movement in America—that so often, and despite its many victories, it seems to [...]
April 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 246 Comments
Posted in: Crab Bucket Politics, Decline and Fall
