So earlier tonight, news broke that the Senate may be close to ditching the public option, and predictably, many of my fellow progressives went berserk, declaring that the end was near and 2012 was really prophetic and the only option is to not vote in 2010, [...]
Patton Oswalt on the worst Christmas song ever recorded. NSFW, but completely accurate.
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So as you know, yesterday we found out that there’s a new kind of woman out there: the “cheetah,” a girl who dates guys slightly younger and/or hotter than herself, or possibly a date-rapist, or maybe just someone with low self-esteem, or maybe a cow giving the [...]
So when we left off, I was talking about the fact that this god-awful article from the New York Observer started out talking about slut-shaming by giving an example of date rape. Now, I’m all in favor of shaming rapists, and if the article had [...]
This completely awful New York Observer article has been making the rounds on the twittersphere today, with most of my feminist and ally friends observing that the article boils down to, as Spencer Ackerman says, “adult women should not ever have sex with any men ever, and especially [...]
The idea that Barack Obama is a failure with no accomplishments to speak of has always struck me as ludicrous. Once health care reform is passed (and it will be), Obama will be the most consequential Democratic president on domestic issues since Lyndon Johnson. Getting both the stimulus and health [...]
By all accounts, Barack Obama is about to announce an increase in troop strength in Afghanistan. We’re set to deploy around 30,000 more troops to pacify the increasingly unstable country, at the same time as we draw troops down from our engagement in Iraq.
Now, I’m not overly optimistic in the [...]
I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about Bernard-Henri Lévy’s bizarre and disgusting HuffPo article, in which he does a premature touchdown dance at the prospect of the freeing of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. Were I to do so, I’d probably start by noting that Lévy [...]
Was it something I said?
That could be the shortest lifespan for any blog in Minnesota history.
[...]Désolé, je suis américain, please cook my steak again, je suis américain. Désolé, je ne parle pas français.
1. “Home,” Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
2. “Why You’d Want to Live Here,” Death Cab for Cutie
3. “Rome,” Phoenix
4. “Maybe I’ll Come Down,” Soul Coughing
5. “A Long December,” [...]
North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it’s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it’s “snarky,” which is evidently now code for “place where people who claim [...]
So as you may recall, a couple weeks ago Hannity “accidentally” used video from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally to show how well-attended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rally was. An easy mistake, of course — anybody could accidentally mistake raw footage of a recent rally with archival footage from a completely different [...]
I am trying very hard to see where Newsweek’s choice to use Sarah Palin’s Runner’s World photo as their cover is a horribly sexist decision that belittles women everywhere. No, seriously, I am — I’m aware I’m not going to see a flaw the first time I look at something, [...]
I’m going to imagine “2012″ happens in the same universe as “The Ugly Truth,” so all those characters die horribly.
[...]First off, let me note that I hate Carrie Prejean as much as the next sentient human.
That out of the way, it’s time for me to defend Carrie Prejean.
As you may have heard, former Miss California USA-slash-anti-gay activist Carrie Prejean has a sex tape that’s gotten loose, and perhaps [...]
To the Indians Who Died in Africa
by T. S. Eliot
A man’s destination is his own village,
His own fire, and his wife’s cooking;
To sit in front of his own door at sunset
And see his grandson, and his neighbour’s grandson
Playing in the dust [...]
The Cold War was a fact of life.
My parents had grown up during it; I had grown up during it. And I had little doubt my children would grow up during it. From before my parents were born, the Soviet Union and the United States of America [...]
At least one Republican, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., says he’ll vote present on the amendment, and has four or five other members of the GOP who will join him. That may not be enough to scuttle the amendment, but it would make it close — Stupak has claimed between [...]
Today should be a good day. It should be a day when Democrats and decent people celebrate the passage of health care reform out of the House of Representatives. But unfortunately, the usual suspects have decided that health care can’t be reformed if said reform leads to women having control [...]
And discovers the sinister plot to steal Glenn Beck’s precious bodily organs.
Is he crazy, or is he so sane he just blew your mind?
[...]I don’t have anything to say right now. Awful is awful, and we’ll have time to dissect which particular flavor of awful this is soon enough. For now, keep the dead and wounded in your thoughts.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mike Doughty.
So I have T-Mobile for my wireless carrier, which means, evidently, that I don’t get to talk to anyone today. Thus defeating the entire point of having a mobile phone. The good news is that I share this joy with every other T-Mobile customer in the U.S. Thanks guys. [...]
Well! I can’t endorse viral pneumonia as a fun activity, though if you really like feeling like death warmed over and like your lungs to have that full-of-liquid feeling, it probably is for you. At any rate, I’m finally feeling marginally better, so posting should resume, [...]
On July 1, over at local righty superblog True North (”Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction”), Kevin Ecker decided to use his time to highlight an anti-immigration rally in Austin, Minnesota:
Political activism at it’s [sic] best is honest grassroots efforts by people finally fed up with lying politicians [...]
If you know enough about Minnesota politics to be reading my blog, you probably know who Margaret Anderson Kelliher is. She’s the current Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, the second and longest-serving woman to hold the position. She’s also one of the DFL candidates seeking to replace [...]
Current topic up for discussion at GOP.com:
I was wondering if anyone could help me on this subject..what it would take for a state to succeed [sic] from the union? I know with joining the union you need to have 3/5 of the states to ratify the constitution but can [...]
One of the more bizarre sub-plots from the bizarre story that is the faked balloon voyage of Falcon Heene is the YouTube video in which Falcon and his brothers claimed to be “not pussified.”
It’s a lovely video about how three young boys aren’t being “pussified,” and also, how they [...]
Debbie Schlussel is best known for her rabid hatred of anything that can even tangentially be connected to Islam, up to and including falafel. So it’s nice to see her branching out into some good old-fashioned hatred of other things.
What has made Debbie angry? Well, it seems Disney’s messing with [...]
You know, there’s nothing wrong with toys that mimic housework. Toy stoves? Vacuums? Brooms? Absolutely fine. Indeed, by playing at cleaning when you’re three, you become more likely to grow up to actually clean when you’re 33.
Just remember, though, that cleaning is for girls only. I mean, we [...]
Google Ads is now putting anti-choice ads on my site. Way to know your audience, guys!
[...]The new Republican National Committee Web site has been derided for its “GOP Heroes” section — which teaches us that almost all of the great Republicans lived in the 1800’s, and about half of them were black — but there’s another illustrious name on the list: Ronaldus Magnus.
The site’s [...]
Let’s thank the Ceiling Cat tonight for four brave Republican U.S. Reps — John Shadegg of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia, Trent Franks of Arizona, and Sue Myrick of North Carolina. You see, they have uncovered the most terrormorfyingest Muslamofascist plot in the history of history. It seems that the [...]
For the love of the Ceiling Cat, Michael Steele, really?
The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs — a lot of it directed at Chairman Michael Steele’s blog, “What Up?”
“What Up?” Really? Really‽ That’s like a 93-year-old white guy’s [...]
Bruce Jenner is terribly, terribly upset at Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. And for some reason, the Politico cares.
I think it’s only fair to run this trailer for the 1980 film Can’t Stop the Music, starring Bruce Jenner and The Village People.
There’s absolutely no racial component to the criticism of Barack Obama, and I think all you liberals are the real racists for suggesting there is:
When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you’ve walked into a different era.
Behind the pool tables stands [...]
Gov. Timmy, on Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize:
I would say regardless of the circumstances, congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Prize. I know there will be some people who are saying “Was it based on good intentions and thoughts or is it going to be based [...]
I don’t know if Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize quite yet, and I’m actually serious when I say he won it in no small part for simply not being George W. Bush — for seeking to reengage with the world in the sort of [...]
I haven’t paid much attention to the New Jersey governor’s race. Oh, it looks kind of close, and that might be marginally interesting, but the choice for residents of the Garden State appears to be the classic one between the evil of two lessers. Fighting from the blue corner is [...]
I take back any bad thing I’ve ever said about Sen. Al Franken, DFL-Minn.
Why do I do this? Because in his brief tenure in office, Franken has shown himself to be exactly the kind of senator we need more of — bright, driven, and possessed of a sense of [...]
This looks like the sort of technology that will be available in the 28th century:
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
Seriously, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The abstract is here. If I were a venture capitalist I’d be shoveling [...]
Like most Americans, I don’t have much time for Bill Ayers. Yes, I know he’s central to the vast left-wing conspiracy to elect Muslim Black Socialist Black Communist Black Muslim Blackity Black Black Black President Barack Hussein Super-Allah Obama, but he’s also a former terrorist — and no mincing [...]
As you’ve probably heard, the folks who brought you Conservapedia are currently hard at work on the Conservative Bible, because that Jesus guy was a crazy dope-smoking hippie who had all these goofy ideas about healing the sick and helping the poor and turning the other cheek and [...]
Today marks the last scheduled major league baseball game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Happily, it may not be the last game played; the Minnesota Twins have managed to draw even with the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central after 161 games. Should the Twins and Tigers [...]
I swear, at some point in the next few days, I will stop posting on Roman Polanski. But it shines so many interesting lights on so much of the sexism in our culture that it’s impossible to ignore it.
I’ve been musing for the past few days on just how it [...]
David Letterman is a vile rapist for having a consensual sexual affair with a co-worker. Roman Polanski is a really nice guy who shouldn’t be judged for raping a 13-year-old girl.
[...]Thank you, Neil Gaiman. I really would have been depressed if you’d turned out to be a Polanski supporter. (Via Ginmar.)
[...]Carbon Dioxide: the best thing ever!
That’s pretty much as factually wrong as “Uranium: It’s what’s for dinner.” But it still can’t top CEI’s “We Call it Life”:
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(Via Sheril Kirshenbaum)
[...]The number of actors and directors not supporting Roman Polanski is depressingly low, but one of them is Silent Bob himself:
Look, I dig ROSEMARY’S BABY; but rape’s rape. Do the crime, do the time.
You’d think that would be pretty much the universal attitude, but you’d be wrong.
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