Here is a video making the rounds of the innertubes called “Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned”: Yes, of course it is being sarcastic — the clear intent is to make fun of arguments against gay rights. But what’s really ironic are the comments — there are over 12 thousand of them already on YouTube — […]
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Obama turned down the Nobel Peace Prize? He could simply say that he doesn’t deserve it … yet, and that the Nobel committee should wait until he really earns it. That would drive the right-wing crazy. © Scott Stantis © Nick Anderson UPDATE: The Nobel committee defends their decision to […]
Why is it the best articles about American politics come from the foreign press? Is it because you need a little distance in order to get a good perspective, or is it that the US press just really sucks? Anyway, there is a very good article written by a British journalist about Glenn Beck. The […]
Here is an interesting graph, showing the year-over-year growth of the Gross Domestic Product over the last two decades for the G7 countries, the seven major western economies. You can click on it to see a larger image: There are several interesting things we can see from this graph: The current economic mess started early […]
Bill Moyers explains it in terms even a teabagger could understand:
I’ve been enjoying watching Alan Grayson take the Party of No to task, and wondered if other Dems would catch on. It looks like they might be. In response to Republicans attacking Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the DNC sent out the following email: The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with […]
It seems like the Republican strategy recently has been to throw out an enormous number of negative memes about Obama, to see if any stick. First, they said that he was doing too much. Between cap and trade to roll back global warming, bailing out the economy with the stimulus bill, appointing a hispanic woman […]
Madame Speaker, I have words for Democrats and Republicans tonight. Let’s start with the Democrats We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe to vote on health care reform. I want to remind […]
ABC News seems shocked (shocked, I tell you) to learn from Michael Moore’s new movie that companies routinely take out life insurance policies on their employees and then benefit when they die. But what I find ironic about this is that what they found shocking was that it was “creepy”, saying “it’s immoral to benefit […]
Keith Olbermann has been absent from his show, taking care of his ailing father and having an unplanned first-hand experience with the US health care system. This is a long video — he dedicated his entire show to this special comment — but it is worth watching. Olbermann outlines the depth of how broken our […]
The New York Times has an interesting article today about the Simmons Bedding Company, which is about to declare bankruptcy. Small investors stand to lose everything (bondholders alone will lose almost $600 million). Not to mention the employees, who are not only out of a job, but had their pensions converted into shares of company […]
Deliciously ironic posting by David Michael Green at Common Dreams today, entitled “If the Russians Did This to Us, We’d Kill ‘Em“. The whole idea being that if we were invaded by a foreign country, what could they do to us that isn’t already being done by our own, existing overclass. Would they throw large […]
Now, in addition to the ongoing questions about whether or not Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, new questions have come up: There is rampant confusion about where he was born. Suspiciously, Beck’s wikipedia page says he was born in Everett, Washington, but it used to say he was born in […]
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. With 65% of Americans supporting the public option, 70% of doctors supporting it, even a plurality of Republicans supporting it, the President supporting it, and holding a super-majority in Congress, the Democrats are still doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: See also these […]
There is just so much that is ironic and sad about this story on Liz Cheney that my head is spinning. First of all, she is giving a talk at a gathering of conservative women called “Smart Girls Summit“, and she is not just defending torture but being a shameless cheerleader for it, and is […]
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