Back in 2009, Paul Ryan, GOP reptilian baby eating loser who wants to end Medicare and send the surplus to his zillionaire cronies, loved himself some Ayn Rand. Saying “Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did a fantastic job explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism, and that, to me, is what matters …
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 26 2012
2012 election bumper-sticker
It’s not easy for progressives to come up with a simplistic soundbyte bumper sticker. We tend to get too wonky, down in the weeds on details, plus these days we’re often hamstrung by accuracy — an obstacle the usual suspects routinely drive right around without a care in the world. But this isn’t bad!
Apr 26 2012
Teacher fired by Catholic school for getting pregnant the ‘wrong way’
The Roman Catholic Church loves them some babies, babies from incest, babies from rape, babies from unmarried consenting adults, doesn’t matter. They’re all good. But their view on parents is whacked out. For example, when a teacher and her husband turned to in vitro fertilization, the church canned her despite exemplary performance. Not sure how …
Apr 26 2012
Antartica may be more sensitive to small climate changes than thought
Yippee, more great news. This time from the planet’s primary air conditioner and sea level manager, which may be way more sensitive to small increases in temperature than some researchers thought:
Apr 25 2012
Glenn Beck: God told me to leave Fox News
That’s Glenn Beck’s crazy claim, that God-eh spoke to him through his luxury high rise window and warned him about Fox News:
Apr 25 2012
This is what scares the hell out of me about Romney et al
Most of the time I’m just playing partisan when criticizing politicians. But these guys worry me and it’s not just Romney per see, it’s the entire GOP-conservative corporate nexus on healthcare that scares the shit out of me. Some reported details, if you can call them that, on Romney’s answer to Romneycare have been leaking out and if …
Apr 24 2012
Saturn’s F-ring and the making of UFO propaganda
It’s not often we get a fortuitous example of how the UFO-conspiracy crowd manufactures their BS. … OK, maybe it happens all the time! But an absolutely must see time elapsed video put together by the Cassini-Equinox team provides just such an opportunity. Below is that same video together with some background, culminating in the UFO nonsense.
Apr 24 2012
Romney agrees with Obama on student loans, gasp!
There’s been some speculation on Romney’s “angle” on agreeing with Obama on student loan rates. What could possibly explain agreeing with a Kenyan Muslim atheist socialist usurper?
Apr 24 2012
Operation Golden Shower: I’m only half kidding
I proposed this as satire a few years ago for Iraq, might as well use it in Afghanistan. Because it’s cheaper, way less dangerous, and it would probably work as well as whatever we’re supposed to be doing there now.
Apr 23 2012
Shorter wingnuttia: What war on women? Now, about that WAR on women
I sometimes dream that we progressives will enjoy the same fruits our opponents feast so gleefully on. See, for them, consistency and principle is not an issue; you can both declare there is no such thing as a war on women, and bemoan the war on women, with little fear of ”Republicans fractured and in disarray” …
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