© Ben Sargent The real scandal is that Congress doesn’t seem capable of doing anything about the issues that really matter. Instead, we get distraction after distraction and obstruction after obstruction. And it looks like this is being done on purpose. Well, at least I guess we can feel better since Congress has its top […]
Some last tidbits about Benghazi. First, Glenn Greenwald makes some good points on Bill Maher’s show (and Maher just comes off as a jerk): And a funny comic. Everyone should apply this to their assholes: I actually agree with both sides. As Glenn Greenwald says, when a US ambassador gets killed, there should be some […]
I can’t decide if this is insane or brilliant. A Tea Party group organized a three-day boycott of Fox News, claiming the right-wing “news” source is too liberal. The boycott started Thursday and ended this morning. According to the group’s website: FOX needs the Tea Party/conservatives more than the conservatives need FOX after FOX turned […]
© Tom Tomorrow Humans are notoriously bad at evaluating risks. We seriously overreact to some risks, while sticking our collective heads in the sand for far more dangerous risks. Between the years of 1959 and 1994, 3239 people were killed by lightning strikes (roughly the same number that were killed by terrorists since 1970). In […]
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. […]
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 […]
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!
© Nick Anderson If you like the fountain, just wait until you see the John Yoo reflection pool. Jon Stewart is excited about the reemergence of George W. Bush in the news: And since we’ve seen the landscaping, Jon Stewart and Al Madrigal give us an inside tour:
Finally, someone in Congress, Peter DeFazio (D-OR), is doing something right to save the Post Office from its incipient and completely unnecessary bankruptcy. He has introduced legislation, but he will need our help to overcome the special interests who have largely succeeded in crippling the postal service. DeFazio has set up a petition on the […]
“He’d be a marvelous candidate if he chooses to do so. He doesn’t need my counsel ’cause he knows what it is, which is ‘run’. … He’d be a great candidate and a great president.” – George W. Bush “There are a lot of great families, and it’s not just four families or whatever. There […]
Why is it that TV news has time and money for crap like this, but doesn’t have either for real investigative journalism?
© Tom Tomorrow The last week or so was a heck of a fail. The Media is at the top of my list, who seem to have changed from making fun of blogs and other social media, to just repeating stuff they find on the internet verbatim with no fact checking what-so-ever. And how tone […]
© Ruben Bolling I love this comic. Even though I believe in the right to bear arms, I also believe that we really need some laws that promote gun safety. But gun fanatics oppose pretty much any regulation of guns. I think in the long run, this radical stance will backfire on them.
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