Archive for the ‘We Are All Mayans Now’ Category
I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It, But…
MoJo’s Nick Baumann again does us an invaluable service by pointing out the obvious fact that President Obama’s “unprecedented assault on America’s religious freedoms” by requiring church-related hospitals and universities to cover contraception at the federal level has actually been on the books for, oh, about 12 years now. In December 2000, the Equal Employment [...]
February 10, 2012
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Zandar · 
68 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Venality, We Are All Mayans Now
Just because you’re paranoid
I have a hard time believing many non-wingers care about the Catholic church contraceptive thing. I’m not saying there’s none, but most people support access to birth control, and the “I support birth control but I oppose the church having to provide access to it in their health care programs” position is too complicated for [...]
February 8, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 174 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Chart Of Darkness: Belaboring The Point
Following up on Saturday’s post on the latest wingnut meme that Kenyan Soshulist Maths are hiding the truth that the reeeeeeeal unemployment rate among scared, crazy self-piddling conservatives is 157 gazillion percent, we see FOX and Friends is happily joining in the silliness. “Are they playing around with the numbers?” fill-in host Eric Bolling asked. [...]
February 7, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
Then they came for Clint Eastwood
My dad’s take on the Republican party, and why it can never become a real majority party, is that they just can’t stop themselves from being assholes. It’s like the scorpion in the frog—they’ll kill themselves to sting the frog, they can’t help it, it’s just in their nature. The delicate Karl Rove said today [...]
February 6, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 104 Comments
Posted in: I wish a motherfucker would!, We Are All Mayans Now
What’s so funny about polarization and division?
I’ve read about a million things the past few days about how it’s so sad that the Komen dust-up means that nowadays liberals will give to one charity and conservatives to another. Can’t everyone on both sides agree that breast cancer is bad and get together to fight it blah blah blah? Fuck that. Don’t [...]
February 4, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 129 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, We Are All Mayans Now
Komen-tastrophe: Beating a Dead McHorse [updated]
Downstairs, Zandar linked McMegan’s latest mind-yammerings in The Atlantic, and like some unstoppable idiot, I got out of the boat and read her article. Ostensibly the article is supposed to be a response to Jeffrey Goldberg’s article. In actuality, it’s her traditional steaming pile of brain-shit. I know it’s been All Komen All Day over [...]
February 2, 2012
· ABL 2.0 · 86 Comments
Posted in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Vagina Outrage, We Are All Mayans Now
Afternoon Open Thread
McMegan weighs in on Jeffrey Goldberg’s Komen-tary below. She uses the word “fungible” without irony, if you wanted a hint as to where she comes down. I’m still snarked out from Rubin, myself. Open thread then.
February 2, 2012
· Zandar · 128 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, We Are All Mayans Now
Arizona GOP: I Spit On Your Union Grave
If GOP Gov. John Kasich got an ugly bloody nose from public unions last year and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his GOP pals wanted to leave public unions bleeding in the street (only to now face the wrath of the state’s voters), Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is by comparison sending wreaths and dry [...]
February 1, 2012
· Zandar · 38 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, We Are All Mayans Now
She never spoke Spanish to me
Over at Washington Monthly, Elon Green finds Maureen Dowd going on about the Obama-Brewer supposed confrontation, warning: The problem is, by Thursday this narrative was already shaky. Mayor Scott Smith, who accompanied Brewer on the tarmac, told Nick Martin that contra Brewer, Obama “simply began talking to the other two elected officials who were there [...]
January 29, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 62 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, We Are All Mayans Now
Bank-ridden, God-forsaken
This is awesome (via): GUESS WHO just got back today? Them bailout boys that had been away; Not much changed since they last came to stay; But man, they still think our stats are great . . . It was quarterly return time again yesterday and as poor Mother Ireland presented herself for another pat [...]
January 27, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 44 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Let fury have the hour
I think Newt might have blown it by not going Howard Beale during the last debate. It’s possible that kind of thing wouldn’t have worked without the crazy audience response, anyway. But if you are wondering whether Gingrich will drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech tonight, here’s a [...]
January 26, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 113 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Mayans Now
Oh, stewardess, I speak wingnut
A simple google search could have taught America’s worst columnist that wingers talk about Saul Alinsky all the time. But no: The Gingrich I seek is not the man above but the one of big ideas. The term gets thrown around a lot, and Gingrich himself is apt to think his every idea is BIG. [...]
January 24, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 142 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
Touching the Elephant known as Newt
Remember that old story of blind men touching and describing an elephant? Well, that is the phase of the Republican primary we are in when it comes to Newt Gingrich. Folks are touching this or that aspect of his record and statements and using the narrowness of the exploration to describe Newt. Each of these [...]
January 22, 2012
· Dennis G. · 39 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, The Wingularity, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
Birthers Stuck On Endless Loop
Whether you believe that the Republicans will self-destruct in November or not, the Birther component of the anti-Obama campaign will never, never end unless the people who continue to spew this nonsense are actually made to pay a price. A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing [...]
January 22, 2012
· Zandar · 124 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter, Flash Mob of Hate, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Serenity Now!, We Are All Mayans Now
Talk becomes slow, but there’s one thing I’ll never forget
Just as Elias Isquith predicted, Villagers are starting to Gore Romney. The dickwhisperer: Romney, the conservative writer Jonah Goldberg argued this week, has an “authentic inauthenticity problem.” And that is precisely why his struggle is so familiar. He is the political reincarnation of Al Gore, whose campaign I covered with an equal amount of cringing [...]
January 16, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 151 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
