Santorum finally gets a job he’s eminently qualified for

This is the kind of thing that makes me joke maybe there is a God and she loves me. Rick Santorum, wingnut extraordinaire, finally has a seat he’s completely qualified to sit in, right at the big table with the nuttiest crunchiest nutburgers in America. Man on Dog will now offer regular op-eds for the World Nut Daily and, true to form, you can almost hear the stealthy rotor-blades of black helicopters chopping the air in his first screed: [Read more…]

It has nothing to do with race …

The annual bleg

Just as an example of the kind of emails we get at Daily Kos, and the amazing delusional psychosis infecting conservatives who truly believe in their heart of hearts there 1)  is no racism in the GOP and 2) friends who look me straight in the eyes utterly puzzled as to what I am talking about (Or accuse dems of making it all up to make the GOP sound racist), I give you this weekend’s wingnut neoconfederate exampler. Trust me folks, this is not work safe, but sad to say it is routine stuff for us: [Read more…]

Must see Daily Show video hilarity

More than once I’ve been struck how effectively and quickly the Stewart or Colbert shows can educate a political newcomer. I’ll have a friend or girlfriend, and get on a rant reeling off dates and context, but within a couple of minutes their eyes will glaze over and they’ll tell me to shut up. But when that same person watches these two fake news shows, they’ll sit there laughing and leaning far more than my methods could ever get across. This clip is a great example, it lays bare the stunning hypocrisy of McCain and Graham — and indicts the traditional media as a bonus — in five hilarious minutes flat. Bravo ladies and gentlemen, bravo!

Republicans credit Romney with … getting bin Laden

A recent PPP poll contained a startling statistic: when Republicans were asked “Who is more responsible for bin Laden’s death, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama,” 47% answered “Not Sure,” and another 15% chose Romney.

IOW, most Republicans hate Obama so much that they can’t bring themselves to correctly answer that question even though they know what the answer is. That’s an astonishing look into the cognitive dissonance and delusional mind of today’s right, and it ought to scare the living shit out of everyone. Cross tabs and links here.

Rev Moon finally freaking dies

To which I say, Hallejuah! The guy who fleeced thousands and thousands of young people out of every last cent, out of  promising futures, in many cases stealing their very dignity using the religious protection racket, has finally passed away. Alas, the cause of death was not slow roasting in flames or lingering necrotizing genitalia, as would be appropriate for a social predator of this caliber: [Read more…]

Dan Senor: the man who was too wrong to fail

The symptoms of the Great American Demise are all around me. In the end, when we have finally reached full-blown third-world status and our grandkids compete in contests for best rat trap, we’ll be able to look back and know we did it entirely to ourselves. One beautiful example of how we managed to blow a massive US lead in wealth and technology can be found in one Dan Samuel Senor, a man too wrong to fail. [Read more…]