Yesterday, Alan Grayson (D-Fla) said that the Republican health care plan was “1. Don’t get sick. 2. If you do get sick… 3. Die quickly!” Here’s the video (short, and pretty funny): Republicans immediately demanded an apology from him. So today, Grayson apologized: As Act Blue says, it probably was not the apology they were […]
You might watch this and laugh at their easily disproved lies. For example, Michelle Bachmann saying that she doesn’t trust ACORN with her information, when ACORN has never collected census data. But what’s really ironic is that if Bachmann succeeds in getting right-wingers to avoid the census (which, by the way, is against the law) […]
The translator broke down during Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s speech at the UN, shouting into his live microphone “I just can’t take it any more” in Arabic. Ironically, the translator was one supplied by Gaddafi, who refused to use the regular UN interpreters. Those who have translated for Gaddafi in the past empathized with the […]
© Chon Day In rememberance of political columnist William Safire, who died yesterday at the age of 79, we present his favorite New Yorker cartoon. Even though this cartoon by Chon Day was published in April 1945, the recent financial meltdown for which nobody seems responsible makes it timely today.
The media is often my favorite whipping boy, tool of corporate interests. But ironically, while this blog is neither mainstream nor an actual news source, I am by definition part of the media. So I think it is only fair that I post this video that gives ten examples of journalistic integrity, many (surprisingly) from […]
So recently, Fox News decided to not air Obama’s speech on health care reform, even though pretty much every other channel did show it. Fox also passed on a few other speeches by Obama. For example, for the memorial service for Walter Cronkite, Fox decided not to air the remembrance from Obama, and instead announced […]
130 photos taken during Obama’s trip to New York: Video by Eric Spiegelman.
A few years ago, evangelist (and former child star) Kirk Cameron released a video attempting to prove that God exists and created the world just for us humans by pointing out that the common banana fits perfectly into the human hand. Watch it — it is short and (unintentionally) hilarious: Of course, Cameron didn’t mention […]
© Keith Tucker We already have death panels: The North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie “Norma Rae” died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment.
From Tim H. via Wonkette A Fox News ad that was run on the Drudge Report. Apparently, the same thing can’t be said for their proofreaders.
Congress was falling all over themselves to pass a bill punishing ACORN. In fact, they refer to the bill (in the bill itself) as the “Defund ACORN Act”. The bill passed both the House and Senate. There is only one problem with that — bills that punish a single person or organization without a trial […]
Why should sick people get all the sympathy?
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 […]
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 […]
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