Further evidence of the Kenyan Mooslim’s utter failure to grasp the essentials of free market economics. Bonus flashback [Huffpo link]: On the auto bailout, despite GM going public last week and sending billions of dollars back to taxpayers, Perry still insisted that it wasn’t successful and said the federal government shouldn’t be involved in private …
Archives for August 2011
Honest Questions
Atrios links to this Media Matters post about the day of service on 9/11, where they find a bunch of stupid wingers (Gateway Pundit, Pam Geller, somebody at Fox Nation*, Weasel Zippers and, of course, El Rushbo) calling Obama a socialist because he asked us to serve soup at a kitchen instead of shop. My …
We Dodged A Bullet
The North Anna nuclear plant, ten miles from the epicenter of last week’s earthquake, was designed to withstand a 5.9-6.1 magnitude earthquake, and may have exceeded its design limits. It’s a good thing everything worked: The spent fuel pools at North Anna contain 4-5 times more than their original designs intended. As in Japan, all …
This must have been for the Texas preachers, too
Rick Perry loses a round: A federal judge on Tuesday blocked key provisions of Texas’ new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling the measure violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks upheld the requirement that sonograms be performed, but struck down …
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Dear Heather, Plato would have hated your article
Occasionally somebody publishes something that is such a combination of totally uninformed and incredibly condescending that you almost have to admire it. There’s a kind of shit-eating brio that you just have to take your hate off to for a minute. Then after that minute, you need to take a scalpel to it. Fair warning, …
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Open Thread: The TerMITTnator
(Mike Luckovich via Gocomics.com) __ Don’t have a Mac, iPod, or iPad, but (or should that be “therefore”?) I LOL’d. *********** Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly reports that my personal nemesis, Willard “Mitt” Romney, has decided he can no longer stand above the fray now that James Richard “Guv Goodhair” Perry is stealing the …
Open Thread
I had this really weird dream last night that I was hanging out with Patton Oswalt and David Cross and Oswalt told Cross to “STFU while the candles are burning or there will be no fun.” Later on I had a dream that I went back into the Army to my old unit and realized …