What a great rant by John Fugelsang on newly reelected scumbag Mark Sanford:
And while we are picking on the poor Texas Governor, yesterday Rick Perry spoke on the “Stand with Scouts Sunday” program by the anti-gay Family Research Council. Perry applauded the Boy Scouts for taking a “principled stand” against gay membership and leadership, and called the gay rights movement a passing “flavor of the month” fad. […]
© Jen Sorensen The full quote from Rick Perry, along with a response from the editor of the paper. Here’s the original comic, and the cartoonist’s blog entry defending the comic: © Jack Ohman If you have any doubts that better regulations and enforcement of current regulations could have prevented this disaster, read this full […]
“An elementary school here in New York City has become the first school in the country to serve only vegetarian food. Apparently the school board wants to give kids a head start in being difficult at restaurants.” – Jimmy Fallon “That’s right. A school is serving only vegetarian foods, like tofu. Now when bullies say, […]
“Yesterday President Obama said that the prison at Guantanamo Bay needs to be closed. To make sure it closes quickly, they’re turning it into a Blockbuster Video.” – Conan O’Brien “President Obama held a press conference today. He said he still wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, but he doesn’t know how to […]
The sequester is slashing and burning all branches of our government. So which one solitary thing is so important that Congress actually fixes it? © Matt Wuerker © Ruben Bolling
“Washington Wizards center Jason Collins just came out of the closet, making him the first pro athlete in a major sport to be openly gay. While the first openly gay wizard is still Dumbledore.” – Jimmy Fallon “Today Jason Collins, center for the Washington Wizards, announced he is gay. He said, ‘I don’t know what’s […]
It’s Friday. Sit down. Relax. Then read the latest article written by hero Matt Taibbi “Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever“. Not only are the biggest banks “too big to fail” and “too big to jail”, they are even “too big to even give a shit”. Bankers were recorded illegally manipulating world interest […]
“Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.” – Jay Leno “They had a big opening of the Bush Library down in Texas. All five living presidents were there. It was a once in a […]
I guess I should not have been surprised by this one, but the clarity of it is pretty breathtaking. A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at attitudes about energy efficiency in liberals and conservatives. First, they gave people a fixed amount of money and gave them a […]
© Ruben Bolling Good thing he wasn’t shopping for nukes!
“The Bush Presidential Library is beautiful, and they have a huge section devoted to weapons of mass destruction, but nobody can find it.” – David Letterman “It’s basically the Hard Rock Café of catastrophic policy decisions.” – Jon Stewart “I guess that’s better than its original title, Disasterpiece Theater.” – Jon Stewart (on the “Decision […]
Obama was pretty funny this year. Conan, um, not so much.
“A new report found that the worst job in the U.S. is being a newspaper reporter. They say it’s better for writers to just focus on fiction and become a CNN reporter.” – Jimmy Fallon “You know what the worst job in America is? It’s newspaper reporter. I guess the pollsters forgot to ask the […]
[via Media Matters] Two months ago, Fox News anchor Jon Scott did a negative story about Tesla, the electric car maker. He used Tesla as an example of bad government spending, saying “we are all sort of co-owners of Tesla — that company got hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as part of the president’s, […]
