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Republican voters have had an entire year now give or take to make
up their minds about who they want as their candidate for
president, yet they continue to gnash their teeth and weep blood a
year later like some game show contestant given two minutes to
stare at a row of identical boxes and [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 6:01 pm
In a super-neato sting operation today, the FBI totally intercepted
a Muslim Terrorist wearing a suicide bomb vest en route to the
Capitol, to blow it up. Sucker! Caught you! Go eat an
Abortionplex-sized bag of dicks, guy! (But really, thank you for
taking all of the pretend bombs our agents gave you and going [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 3:42 pm
Rick Santorum is treating reporters and media organizations today —
all asking for comment on his Super PAC sugar daddy Foster Friess’
stunningly offensive comments yesterday about how “gals” should
just keep their legs shut — with the typical Santorum grace, which
goes something like “WHINE WHINE WHINE PITY ME WHINE *UGH* WHINE I
AM [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 1:32 pm
Oklahoma’s obtuse personhood law made it through the state Senate
on Thursday by a margin of 34 imbeciles to 8 brains, and will now
go to the House, where there are even more “interior person”-loving
junkies than in the Senate. This means that, yes, fertilized eggs
shall have “all the rights, privileges, and immunities available
[...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 12:25 pm
The great New York Times foreign correspondent and two-time
Pulitzer winner Anthony Shadid died in Syria yesterday. He was
among the best. Here’s just one incredible piece we re-read last
night, a dispatch from Baghdad in March, 2003, just a day or two
before the American invasion: His friend, Salman Radi, joined the
conversation. “We [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:55 am
All Big Issues must necessarily have at least two sides, it’s in
the Bible, et cetera. Okay, now then, who wants to take the “pro”
side on child hunger? Anyone? Anyone? Oh good, we just spotted a
hand shooting up in the back. Why it’s a Tennessee Republican,
about to wave his arm free of [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:49 am
Both the House and Senate voted to extend the payroll tax cut
another 10 months today. Democrats will be screaming from the
Kenyan mountaintops about this great legislative victory of theirs,
this “game-changer”! So let’s go through what an allegedly
important Democratic legislative victory looks like in the year
2012. An big “temporary” tax cut. [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:17 am