There was no promised miracle, unless it’s that 80,000-plus people showed up to the New Messiah of the Right’s Gospel Meet-and-Bleat. (Incidentally, a possible third of the crowd may have just been ordinary tourists who stuck around to see what was going on rather than Teabagger acolytes of St. Beck.) Carrie Dann at MSNBC’s First [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Sharron Angle Combine equal parts chunky peanut butter, gunpowder and sacramental wine in an unclear empty vessel. Using an old blender in a narrow, dimly-lit room, mix until the consistency of baby poop. Serve in cracked teacups. Refrain from sharing the recipe with the media. The Michele Bachmann Mix together grapeshot-flavored Kool-Aid, sexual abstinence, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 18, 2010
– Why Ask Me? Thanks to Tony Hayward’s appearance before Congress, we now know the qualifications for a CEO of British Petroleum apparently are to be completely uninformed about your business and the details of the greatest man-made oil disaster in US history that your company caused. For maintaining this extraordinary level of blissful ignorance, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Sen. Rand Paul Dead; Author of Controversial Bill Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal July 5, 2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) died yesterday afternoon from food poisoning that investigators say he contracted from contaminated meat at his favorite Washington restaurant, the exclusive Le Petomane. Autopsy results concurred that the filet mignon cooked medium-rare consumed by Sen. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 26, 2009
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Or, What a Curmudgeon Does on Thanksgiving Major minor aggravations that ‘wear on the mind and make you old before your time.’ – These people who leave comments on various websites claiming they’ve been to teabag rallies and never once saw anyone who was a racist. Really? Not even a single racist? This is just [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
“Can you believe this, Mr. Speaker? Let’s put sex clinics in our schools, and let’s put Planned Parenthood in charge of these sex clinics, because the bill requires under this provision, Planned Parenthood would be authorized to serve as a sponsoring facility for the Nation’s schools.” – Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Kookooland) on the House floor, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 14, 2009
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Helen Philpot is an 83-year-old woman from Dallas, Texas, and she and her friend of 60-plus years Margaret have a blog where they talk politics and the human condition. Here’s a taste of what they write, but read their site for yourself. BTW, I just hope I’m this lucid and sane at Helen’s age. (Thanks [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
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