Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Why should sick people get all the sympathy?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
“Of course, you know President Obama yesterday created quite a stir, because he apparently called Kanye West a jackass. Yeah, well, some people are now upset with President Obama for calling Kanye a jackass. They’re upset about it. Yeah, and Joe Biden is furious, because ‘Jackass’ is his Secret Service code name.’” – Conan O’Brien […]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thanks to All Hat, No Cattle
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 […]
