March 2010
66 posts
10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone - The... →
mekah:
(via noradioalreadystolen)
I love this SO MUCH.
February 2010
93 posts
Robert Reich: The Enthusiasm Gap →
waifsworld:
I had dinner the other night with a Democratic pollster who told me Dems are heading toward next fall’s mid-term elections with a serious enthusiasm gap: The Republican base is fired up. The Dem base is packing up. The Dem base is lethargic because congressional Democrats continue to…
“Even though climate deniers have speciously argued for several years that there...”
– Al Gore, We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com
AIDES – “Graffiti” →
Best. PSA. Ever. (Very, very, very NSFW.)
Anti-climate-denialist iPhone app. →
wearedevo:
Climate denial (denial that the climate is changing, or that human activity is responsible in large part for these changes) seems to be gaining ground in the public consciousness lately. Climate denial is as scientifically invalid and baseless as it ever was, but the public experience actual science at a considerable remove. They receive science through the filter of the mass media,...
Obama To GOP: It’s Over →
Obama listened politely for six hours, with occasional flashes of temper, but in the end, the message was clear: It’s over. We’re moving forward without Republicans.
“All the fear-mongering talk of “nationalizing” 17 percent of the economy is...”
– Roger Cohen, The Narcissus Society
The 290 Bills That Have Been Passed by the House &... →
A Conservative Tumblog: Why Gay Marriage Should... →
stfuconservatives:
Now, in an argument about gay marriage, here is the jist of what I’ll usually hear from uneducated liberal nutjobs:
…
Wow! Where to start?
Gays have been getting married for many years. It was 13 years ago I went to a wedding with my parents for one of their gay friends. The Unitarian Church…
OMG guys, there’s a “fucknoliberals” tumblr. IT’S AS BAD AS YOU THINK.
No,...
Nor Meekly Serve Her Time: Riots and Resistance in... →
brentgilliard:
Prisons may be my New Interesting Thing.
They’re my old interesting thing, and this is a very fine article.
Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order... →
The report by OPR [the Office of Professional Responsibility] concludes that [John] Yoo, now a Berkeley law professor, and his boss at the time, Jay Bybee, now a federal judge, should be referred to their state bar associations for possible disciplinary proceedings. But, as first reported by NEWSWEEK, another senior department lawyer, David Margolis, reviewed the report and last month overruled...
“Anyone that says that it [The Stimulus Bill] hasn’t created the jobs, they...”
– (R) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger calling out his colleagues’ hypocrisy.
video at rawstory
(via brooklynmutt)
I never thought I’d say this, but: GO ARNOLD!
Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building:... →
Actually, I like paying taxes. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “With them I buy civilization.” (via robot-heart-politics)
Disney workers fast for health care →
purplegem:
robot-heart-politics:
azspot:
The Disney dispute mirrors an exacerbating national trend: Employment no longer guarantees satisfactory health care coverage. Between 2001 and 2007, insurance premiums rose 78% while wages rose 19%. As health care costs rise, employers drop benefits, contributing to the number of uninsured Americans.
One in six full-time workers, or 21 million...
David Corn: Are GOPers Deliberately Lying About... →
waifsworld:
jonathan-cunningham:
For days, Republicans derided the stimulus, which they had voted against, as a flop that has achieved nothing. Independent sources, though, say that’s not so. IHS Global Insight and Moody’s Economy.com have estimated the stimulus has added 1.6 to 1.8 million jobs to the economy. And the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office put this number at 2.4 million....
“I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line...”
– Actress Andrea Fay Friedman (who has Down Syndrome), responding to criticism from Sarah Palin on her role in The Family Guy
Work exchange of the Day
Me: John, you look so happy.
John: I think I'm just disturbed. But I feel better for it.
9 [Right-Wing] Myths About Right-Wing Domestic... →
stfuconservatives:
robot-heart-politics:
abcsoupdot:smart-tart:ryking:
The wingnuts know that they’re in trouble once again: Yet another right-wing extremist has committed a terrorist act in the same vein as Scott Roeder, Jim D. Adkisson, Timothy Dale Johnson, Eric Rudolph, Timothy McVeigh — to name a few. Expect their lies to come hot and heavy and use this handy guide to debunk their...
Top 10 unreliable narrators →
First one is Humbert Humbert. No surprise.
Getting Snowed →
It’s 2010. Are conservatives still making fun of An Inconvenient Truth? Even though it came out more than three years ago and isn’t even his most recent book on global warming? Or his second most recent book on global warming? Obviously, the answer is yes. And the culprits aren’t just the Sean Hannitys and Sarah Palins, whose jobs entail a certain amount of clownery. This is the level of discourse...
Responsibility and Health Care →
abcsoupdot:
abbyjean:
[While watching the Olympics,] I’ve heard about countless sprains, ligaments, broken bones. I’ve heard about a ruptured Achilles tendon. I’ve heard about a speed skater who sliced into his own leg with his skate, and a figure skater who sliced into his partner’s face with his skate. I’ve heard about the elaborate medical procedures that were done to repair these injuries,...
“If we told you that Democrats were favored to lose about eight Senate seats (six...”
– First Read - MSNBC via stuartinwashington (via abcsoupdot)
“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to...”
– Pat Robertson (cue facepalm) (via savagemike)
I have no words.
(via cocknbull)
(via abcsoupdot)
The only thing I can assume at this point is that Robertson has genuinely lost his marbles.
White House revamps communications strategy -... →
asprettyasasong:
shaneguiter:
White House officials are retooling the administration’s communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries, a more disciplined focus on President Obama’s call for “change” in Washington and an increasingly selective use of the president’s time.
The messaging adjustments are the result of an end-of-the-year analysis in which White House...
“Many progressive blogs, radio shows and television shows devote relatively...”
– Open Left:: Let’s Not Help the Right Manufacture A Perception That Creates An Alternative Reality (via smart-tart)
I Hereby Unilaterally Declare February 15th To Be... →
Because he is The Greatest Muppet Ever. Search your heart. You know it to be true. (via Whatever)
“Trying to explain privilege to some people can sort of be like trying to explain...”
– Molly Lambert, In Which John Mayer Is A Douchebag For Possibly The Last Time
