March 2012
When will David Brooks realize he just called the...
I hope Rick Santorum googles his own name
I'm excited for our future liberation of Canada
jasencomstock:
Show us the way Romney.
First David Brooks pulls a full Godwin’s Law on me,* and now this. Sehr gut, ja?
* “Now the old pious cliche applies:
“First they went after the Rockefeller Republicans, but I was not a Rockefeller Republican. Then they went after the compassionate conservatives, but I was not a compassionate conservative. Then they went after the...
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Looking Back With Shrillness - NYTimes.com →
Brad DeLong notes that the GOP we now see in the primaries has beenbuilding for a couple of decades; I can’t help thinking of my own decade-plus in the journalistic trenches.
Early on in my tenure at the Times, I felt I had no choice but to point out the inconvenient truth that the official line of the commentariat was all wrong. George W. Bush was not a nice, blunt, honest guy who happened to...
February 2012
The Greeks Had The Technology To Build A Car in 60... →
Go. Go! Be trolled by jalopnik..
GOP 2012: The Pro-Fiction Campaign →
The four candidates still vying for the nomination are pro-fiction to the core: Somehow the President who okayed the assassination of Osama bin Laden, sent drone attacks into Libya and kept Gitmo open is an apologetic pansy – soft on our enemies. Obama has deported more illegal immigrants and spent more money protecting the border than any of his predecessors – but he’s ignoring the issue of...
Will Daily Kos Shut Itself Down When Its Advocacy...
deoptimize:
n/t
/insert Hitler analogy here
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Four Fiscal Phonies - NYTimes.com →
here’s debt as a percentage of GDP in 2021 (using the OMB numbers(pdf) for Obama and CRFB for the others):
Yep: as Republicans yell about Obama’s deficits and cry that we’re turning into Greece, Greece I tell you, all of them, all of them, propose making the deficit bigger.
And for what? For reverse Robin-Hoodism, taking from the poor and the middle class to lavish huge tax cuts on the rich.
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“I suspect Romney may have lost this campaign in the past two weeks. The...”
– Is Mitt Mortally Wounded? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
A very specific prediction from The Hairy Dwarf.
“Although the top rate for income taxes was 70 percent under Carter (where it had...”
– Myth: Carter ruined the economy; Reagan saved it (via azspot)
That's it. Tumblr is, like, totally over.
muppetpants:
At least this update just makes Tumblr uglier instead of more obnoxious to use.
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Letters To My Country: Does The First Amendment... →
letterstomycountry:
You’d think so, but not according to a District Court Judge in Pennsylvania:
There is a surprising story out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania that seems the perfect storm of religious tensions. You begin with Ernie Perce, an atheist who marched as a zombie Mohammad in the Mechanicsburg…
Santorum and Romney Were Wrong on the Bailouts --... →
Many decisions by President George W. Bush deserve criticism (take your pick: a questionable rationale for war in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich that turned federal surpluses into deficits, or policies promoting de-regulation that allowed reckless speculation). But George W. Bush’s stance on bailouts is not one of those major shortcomings. By endorsing strong federal intervention in an emergency,...
“Romney has been forced to do his best to pretend he is a card-carrying member of...”
– The anti-Obama cult - Republican Party - Salon.com
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“Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”
– G.O.P. strategist Alex Castellanos, Ghastly Outdated Party - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)
leaving for Rome later on so I won't be posting...
That’s what the Queue is for…
Dresden and Hiroshima Were the Same
thecallus:
A nuke is just scope. It’s using email instead of a telegram.
The fundamental problem with nuclear weaponry, or any weaponry, is intent. It’s the intent to kill that we have to keep from proliferating. The means of killing are simply scale.
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Would you care for a jelly baby?
thebrigadiersmoustache:
Would you care for a jelly baby?
What?
Try one! They’re rather good!
“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
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Live-Blogging The Mesa Debate - The Dish | By... →
9.40 pm. Santorum really does seem to be implying that Obama has some kind of secret agenda vis-a-vis Iran. And he pretty obviously would launch a massive war on Iran. We’re hearing the kind of language we heard after 9/11. Exactly the same language; exactly the same arguments; exactly the same paranoia.
There seems to be no memory of the Iraq war at all. It never happened. There was...
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what am I doing here?: Gender Marketing Mashup →
feministdisney:
Saw this on Feministing- the “Gendered Advertising Remixer,” here. “Just how gendered are children’s toy commercials? See what happens when you remix them.” (-Feministing)
Unfortunately, my computer’s software is too old or something to allow me to run it, but you…
brilliant
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Where is the GOP's Positive Program? - David Frum →
Whatever the Obama program’s faults, however, it is a positive program. A Republican program that emphasizes “repeal” and “undo” is not a positive program. It’s not a future-oriented program either: it’s a program to refight the battles of the past four years, hoping this time to win the fights that were lost last time.
The gap will especially glare...
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Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
Rowan Atkinson is a dick →
feastingonroadkill:
No no no.
Rowan Atkinson is a talentless, unfunny dick.
Mr Bean - about as amusing as bowel cancer.
Don’t take my copies of Blackadder II & III away…
JasenComstock: There's one thing I don't get about... →
haguenite:
and the outcry over the required ultrasound.
Are ultrasounds not already part of standard abortus provocatus (medically induced abortion) procedure?
Over here, the three methods for abortus provocatus are the abortion pill, suction curettage, and D&E. When a woman goes to her…
Other states require ultrasounds, but this law mandated an invasive ultrasound, for no medical...
“…under George W. Bush, the price of gasoline increased from $1.60 per gallon...”
– GOP Deceptions About Gas Prices (via azspot)
The point is not to blame Dubya for gas prices, but to point out that all of the shit-headed lame-brained memes for the idiot chorus to pick, blaming Obama for gas prices is almost the stupidest.
My Republican friends, bless them, have been beating...
Democratic women seek a state ban on vasectomies... →
“Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of the lack of state regulation over vasectomies,” said Rep. Yasmin Neal, author of the bill. “It is patently unfair that men can avoid unwanted fatherhood by presuming that their judgment over such matters is more valid than the judgment of the General Assembly, while women’s ability to decide is constantly up...
Economics One: Getting Off Track and the Panic of... →
“First off unless they are being raped its not really the man’s fault because the...”
– The Gay Republican discussing a man’s responsibility in pregnancy.
I really have to stop feeding the troll that is Ethan Sabo, but this stuff is almost too horrifying for words. However, there are A LOT of people out there just as ignorant as him, and I think that reasonable and informed people...