Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ACORN is under fire for appearing to encourage tax evasion and prostitution, but perhaps the real problem was that they were giving this advice to poor people. © Kevin Siers
Monday, September 21, 2009
“According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a ‘jackass.’ Not since ‘yes, we can’ has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.” – Conan O’Brien “He’s going to get healthcare passed on that slogan alone. ‘I’ll vote for it. He is a jackass!’” –Conan […]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Occidental College in Los Angeles is offering a course on stupidity. Here’s the course description: 180. STUPIDITY. Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of […]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Not that there was ever any doubt whether Mitt Romney would run again for president in 2012, but it seems like he just can’t wait to start campaigning, as shown by this interesting pair of quotes from Below the Beltway. Back in February (before all the tea baggers started making so much noise), he said […]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has strongly condemned the health care reform bill working its way through the House. They claim that the bill’s prohibition of federal funding for abortion is a “legal fiction”. Their position is hypocritical for a number of reasons. First, it doesn’t matter if a health care reform bill […]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
All actual quotes: © Terrence Nowicki, Jr.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
“Well, people are still talking about last week when President Obama gave his speech on healthcare and that Republican congressman yelled out, ‘You lie!’ He yelled out, ‘You lie!’ to the President. So, at least the two sides are talking. You know, and that’s good. There’s dialogue.” – Jay Leno “Vice President Joe Biden really […]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Think of “empire” as a video game; Afghanistan is the final level.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
UPDATE: Here’s some video showing Fox News giving stage directions to Tea Party protesters so they would look good for the cameras during the 912 event in DC. As Jed Lewison says: Although this video provides a clear-cut example of Fox propaganda in action, the only thing truly shocking about it is that it won’t […]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Excerpt from an opinion piece in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates: For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposing an ancient hatred that has simmered in this country for decades. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of us grew tired of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, mostly because they presented […]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Outside an Obama rally for health care at the University of Maryland: See the whole photo stream. UPDATE: Apparently, “Imma let you finish” has become an official meme.
Friday, September 18, 2009
“Obama gave his health care speech before Congress, and he was in a mood. He called out some of the liars who have been lying about his plan. And he also said a lot of the opposition to this plan comes from ill-informed crazy people. And to prove it, a shitkicker named Joe Wilson from […]
Friday, September 18, 2009
A new study out of Harvard Medical School shows that lack of health insurance causes an estimated extra 45,000 deaths a year. And thats after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health. Previously a study from the Institute of Medicine estimated the number of deaths at 18,000 annually, but that study was based […]
