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• Shallow musings

  We haven't seen the last of Lou Dobbs.' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:25pm EST
  

• Shallow musings

  We haven't seen the last of Lou Dobbs.' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:25pm EST
  

• I know it's not Memorial Day, still...

  I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,Believen' that the Lord was on their side,I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,Believen' that we all were' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

• The new face of dangerous ignorance: Just look at him for a while

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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:59pm EST
  

• Feel Good Friday: Prisencolinen Sinainciusol Edition

  Don't ask me what this is, your guess is as good as mine.' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:26pm EDT
  

• A Moment of Zen

  No major incidents reported overnight in West Tennessee, according to local officials.[Jackson Sun]Thank God. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
  

• Media beginning to see the insurance forest

  Finally we're beginning to see at least some reporting about the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption. This is something you'd have thought we'd have heard more about in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But instead the talking heads kept us all feuding with "he said she said" reporting on things like' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
  

• Pig Radio R00Lz

  No, I'm not talking about EIB Lying Nazi Pig radio. I'm talking about 96.1, The Pig, Memphis' best new radio station.  This morning on my way to work, I heard Magic Man, Sweet Transvestite, two New Wave songs from the 80s I haven't heard in years, Love Me Tender, and Marvin [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:28am EDT
  

• Weird Wingnut Obsessions

  Someone please explain to me why people who own businesses know more than people who don't own businesses?' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  

• Does the Vaccine Matter? - The Atlantic (November 2009)#

  Does the Vaccine Matter? - The Atlantic (November 2009)#Shared via AddThis [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 11:19am EDT
  

• Thinking about Afghanistan

  So I just read this piece about how if the US & NATO pull out of Afghanistan, Russia and China will rush in and be unfriendly to American interests.I could be wrong, but I don't think Russia's chomping at the bit to repeat their inglorious Afghan adventure. And I can't' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 9:52pm EDT
  

• Thinking out loud...

  You know, Osama Bin Laden's a prince. I'm no intel guru but I'd bet $18 American that he's not in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but in some cozy little palace in Saudi Arabia. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
  

• What Digby said... maybe.

  So there are some interesting and polite healthcare protests going on but nobody in the media is showing up to cover them. I don't think I buy this theory entirely and have to wonder how good the protesters' PR skills are. These sound exactly like the kind of think I'd' [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:59pm EDT
  

• Put People to Work

  That is all. [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  

• BEST BLOG POST TITLE EVER

  Ladies & gentlemen, The Death Penalty. [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
  

• The first, last, and only word on the bullshit commonly called the healthcare debate

  Southern Beale says a mouthful. And I say Amen. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
  

• A Moment of Zen

  These liberal dreamers will never find a serious Democrat who's crazy enough to challenge Cooper.[Jeff Woods]We need a name for the Nashville equivalent of the Beltway Village. [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 8:19am EDT
  

• Jim Cooper Should be Primaried

  I'm not talking down to the Nashville Blogosphere. It is with great respect that I ask them to unbunch their panties, take a deep breath, and try to understand that the South is far out of step with the rest of the country and until we figure out what to' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
  

• A Heathen Looks at Religion

  Great religious leaders lead by example. When Peter cut off the ear of the soldier that came for Christ, Jesus turned around and restored it. Humanity fails Christ when they follow the example of Peter.The same is true with the Dalai Lama. And although ears were assaulted with bad unoriginal [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:20am EDT
  

• Kicking a Clown is Bad Karma. Unless it's an Evil Clown and You're Fighting Him with Kung Fu in the Clouds

  I find myself in the very surprising position of defending Myron Lowery. He pulled a clown move today but people are acting like he ate a baby. There is photographic proof that the Dalai Lama gets and gives fist bumps with some regularity. And news to the detractors: this was [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:11am EDT
  

• A song about the original Teabaggers: Not by PPM, but dedicated to Mary Travers RIP

  YO PESKY, I'M GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS BOB DYLAN IS THE GREATEST FOLK SINGER OF ALL TIME."We'll need lots of tools & cranks."UPDATE: I don't know who the hell let Kanye in the house but he should learn some music history.' [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 11:02am EDT
  

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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:22am EDT
  

• The Patriot Actor

  I've never been one to expect a complete return on promises. And, as a realist, I understand that some things can take time to initiate and longer to reverse. So I'm patient. But I'm really not happy about this.' [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
  

• Memory of a Free Teabagging

  With so many bloggers & journalists parsing the meaning of the 9/12 Tea Party in D.C. I thought I'd re-post the mini-doc I made from my visit to the Audubon Park Tea Party earlier this year.This video and its accompanying column (scroll down) attracted vitriolic responses from the Wingers and' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  

• Perhaps the First Edition of WTF Did Digby Say?

  There is a long history of saying "What Digby Said" and providing a link. But today, for the first time I can remember, I'm saying WTF Did Digby Say? and providing a link. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/lines-by-digby-i-have-never-been.html "I have never been particularly sanguine that congressional Democrats would ultimately vote against Obama on health care if it'" [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
  

• Just when I thought Glenn Beck couldn't get any crazier...

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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:49am EDT
  

• The Golden Teabag goes to.... Rep. JOE WILSON!

  Rep. Joe Wilson--the guy who just called the President a liar during his healthcare speech--is the same dude who called Rep. Bob Filner, "viscerally anti-American" with a deep seeded "hatred of America" when Filner suggested the United States supplied chemical and biological weapons to Iraq.Which, of course, we did.UPDATE: Is [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
  

• One more chance to fix the housing bubble

  Cramdown's coming back around. [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  

• Where do they come from?

  It's always amusing to hear the old Bushies criticizing Obama's public speaking style. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:35pm EDT
  

• Where do they come from?

  It's always amusing to hear the old Bushies criticizing Obama's public speaking style. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:35pm EDT
  

• Deep Thought

  Most days I see the glass as being half crazy. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:08pm EDT
  

• Deep Thought

  Most days I see the glass as being half crazy. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:08pm EDT
  

• The soft bigotry of my fellow bloggers

  I finally listened to the great Thad/Mongo interview and don't see what Auto & Bob at 55/40 are drooling over. I heard no viable specifics for fixing anything. What I heard was a lot of classic outsider populism peppered with typically nutty Mongoisms about space and spirits and giving everybody' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:23am EDT
  

• Serious Business

  Thaddeus Matthews and Prince Mongo are having a serious and intelligent discussion about the problems facing Memphis.Link [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 5:41pm EDT
  

• The Destroyer

  Yesterday I listened to The Ben Ferguson Show while driving to the Ostrander Awards. I hadn't tuned in in a while and was wondering what points young Ben was missing these days. What I heard could have been a Colbert skit.Ben opened his show with a rant about how Obama' [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:57am EDT
  

• Racist Black Crypto-Muslim Nazi Communist from Kenya Who Wants to Euthanize Your Grandmother

  I just wanted to say it out loud, all at once, to hear what it sounded like. [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
  

• Fire at the Knightway Apartments (lots of images)

  So I was driving down Knight Arnold this afternoon and I saw this fire truck race past me, and as I turned to see where it was going, I could see a small plume of smoke. It looked like it was fairly closeby, so I experienced a brief voyeuristic thrill [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:08pm EDT
  

• A message from Whitey

  Oh good Lord, I'm starting to feel sorry for them.' [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  

• Because Mick Wright needs even more things to write angry screeds about I submit for your approval...

  This.h/t Señor Cwabs [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 11:05pm EDT
  

• Of All People, He Ought to Know

  Obama is no socialist:Obama was born, educated, went into politics and managed to be successful within the United States’ imperial capitalist system. He neither wished nor could change the system. Curiously enough, despite that, the extreme right hates him for being an Afro-American and opposes anything the President does to [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:18pm EDT
  

• The Dream Will Never Die

  RIP Ted Kennedy 1932 - 2009Regarding the passing of the most consistent and forceful advocate for universal health care to ever hold a seat in the United States Senate, I can only say that if the Democrats in the 111th Congress don't pass a health care reform bill with a' [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 4:03am EDT
  

• Unscientific Survey

  What's really up with Jim Cooper? [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
  

• Posted Without Comment

  Watch the whole thing for surprise political commentary... [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
  

• Heads Up

  Before leaving Downtown for East Memphis, Downtown Neighborhood Association president Tommy Volinchak told the Flyer's John Branston he'd been considering politics and was a registered Democrat.If you haven't already, please take note of Tommy the Terrible's racist, furiously intolerant, and rabidly anti-liberal comments here and file them away in case [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 2:22pm EDT
  

• A Moment of Zen

  from Kristen Atkinson to ken@wonkette.com cc jim@wonkette.com date Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:26 AM subject my story Dear Wonkette editors, I posted a very serious article recently in Townhall.com about witchcraft in the White House, and later realized that your website had made a farce out of it. I [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  

• The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans

  Democrats: Republicans: [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 2:27pm EDT
  

• Although not in the habit of kissing men I would so smooch Barney Frank right now

  That is all... [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
  

• The Prince of Darkness, Dead?

  Who knew it was even possible? But apparently it is. Robert Novak RIP. Or something like that. [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• The Prince of Darkness, Dead?

  Who knew it was even possible? But apparently it is. Robert Novak RIP. Or something like that. [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• Why Isn't Steve Cohen on this List

  65 House members who have pledged to oppose any health care reform that doesn't include a public option. Where's Steve? Does anybody know?http://www.actblue.com/page/theytookthepledge' [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:55am EDT
  

• This Is Why People Think He's Lost His Mind

  Sources in Herenton's inner circle now say some of what the public has witnessed since Herenton's retirement July 30th is a behind-the-scenes power triangle between Herenton, his old foe, Attorney Richard Fields, and emerging foe, Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery.They say the power triangle involves three big deals moving through [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 6:34am EDT
  

• The Letter

  Do I have to do everything around here? I quit blogging long enough to get my affairs in order and the whole damn place falls apart. What's wrong with you people? Let's get back to work!Here is Richard Fields' letter to Dr. Herenton: LINKNeedless to say, I didn't write it. [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 5:36am EDT
  

• Fucktard of the week:

  A sophomoric non-newsworthy poll to confound the local arbiters of proper behavior for professional journalists who are supposed to strike an absurd pose and pretend to exist outside the world they write about. The journalists, that is, not the arbiters who, being quasi-journalists themselves, are biased as a motherfucker.So who [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  

• Fucktard of the week:

  A sophomoric non-newsworthy poll to confound the local arbiters of proper behavior for professional journalists who are supposed to strike an absurd pose and pretend to exist outside the world they write about. The journalists, that is, not the arbiters who, being quasi-journalists themselves, are biased as a motherfucker.So who [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  

• Multitaskers

  I don't know how these people comment with a mouth full of balls.' [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
  

• Peeple R Stoopid

  Here is the amazing story of Charlie Brown and the German pilot who decided not to shoot him down.I know, I know, if it had been Snoopy, the Red Baron would have blown him out of the sky. Feel free to make your own jokes.That' s not why I'm posting [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
  

• Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!

  The Memphis mayor's race is still new but the stupid already burns.Yes, I know, as infrequently as this site is updated these days it makes no sense to create a post with so little news content or analysis. But I really needed to scream in public. And I feel much,' [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2009, 11:14am EDT
  

• Well, Well, Looks Like I Was Wrong

  I wasn't wrong that Aravosis' argument was full of shit, that's for damn sure. But I was demonstrably wrong in thinking that all of this agitating would have no positive effect.P.R. exec Hillary Rosen, plugged in on gay rights issues, told me just now that President Obama will use tonight's' [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2009, 6:54pm EDT
  

• Leave Adam Kleinheider ALOOOOOOOONE!

  Seriously folks. I know I spanked him a bit in comments yesterday for wankery above and beyond the call of duty (I ain't linking-if you don't know about this already you probably don't care). But at the end of the day Post Politics' Adam Kleinheider is one of the goodish [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  

• Wanking to the right of me, wanking to the left of me, wankers behind me... something about thunder

  That is all. [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
  

• John Aravosis and His Incendiary Bullshit

  Pretend for a moment that I'm your attorney and I'm making an appeal on your behalf.If I cite Plessy vs Ferguson in your appeal, would you automatically assume that I am calling you (or the opposing litigant) a segregationist? A racist?All right, how about something more likely to actually happen [...]
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  Posted: June 15, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
  

• Olive Branch Storm Blogging

  My camera battery died before I got any pictures, but let me say that I was incorrect in my previous post, when I said I didn't think there had been a tornado in Olive Branch. There most definitely was.It appears to have touched down somewhere north of Olive Branch City' [...]
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  Posted: June 13, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  

• Memphis Storm Blogging

  Most of Olive Branch is dark. There are a few small areas that still have power. Early this evening we heard a report of a tornado in Olive Branch. We saw snapped telephone poles and powerlines down on Cochrum (Riverdale) north and south of 78, and on Hacks Cross south [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2009, 11:28pm EDT
  

• Test Case

  Yep, it’s me again, ol’ Kib. Here’s a thought that struck me hard between the eyes this morning regarding the state’s new guns-in-bars law: Most rhetoric and analysis and political fustian has, on both sides, been pre-fabricated and predictable. Opponents of the bill had talked up the danger element; proponents [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  

• Obama say what?

  I still have quite a bit of faith in the President. The man has a lot on his plate and I don't mind that he's not making all of my pet issues priority one. I can also respect certain frustrating changes in direction as he negotiates political and economic minefields.' [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2009, 10:59am EDT
  

• Lou Dobbs: Won't do covers

  Lou Dobbs says he won't repeat James von Brunn's "Hate speech." Guess Lou only does original material.HEADLINE FIXED.' [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
  

• Memphis' Most Popular Blog?

  If the number of comments and Google followers is any indication, RiPPa holds the distinction of running Memphis' most popular blog, and while he's been churning away with quality content for over a year now, I still haven't seen anyone local link to him.Regardless of whether or not my guess [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 8:51pm EDT
  

• Feel Good Whatever the Hell Day It Is: Autotune Edition

  I've long believed that the tradition of "Feel Good Friday" is nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse for bloggers to share great music with their readers, and in the spirit of that tradition, I'm declaring today an Official Friday for the Purposes of Blogging. Meet Auto-tune the News. An auto-tuner [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
  

• You Were Scared and You Had No Idea

  Seeing that Commercial Appeal columnist Wendi Thomas is now collaborating with my pal Leftwing Cracker on building a list of restaurants that serve alcohol where guns are not allowed, I've decided to lend them both a hand.It's going to take a lot of phone calls to put together this list,' [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
  

• Why the long face

  Bill Hobbs is out as TNGOP's communications director. [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2009, 5:06pm EDT
  

• Deep sickness

  Pentagon denies that any of this is true. They would. [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2009, 11:19am EDT
  

• Speaking of white dudes with problems...

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  Posted: May 30, 2009, 4:04am EDT
  

• It's hard to be white in America... I guess

  Dear Lord, please deliver us from Bill O'...' [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2009, 12:54pm EDT
  

• 21st Century Statecraft

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  Posted: May 29, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
  

• Talk Radio

  As somebody who loves fiction set in artificial and alternative realities it's kind of awesome to listen to the radio talkers going on and on about the racist blacks and Hispanics in government. It's like living in a Bizarro 60's.' [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
  

• A Question for Our Host

  WTF is this? [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
  

• Body of Evidence

  Jesse the Body talks torture... awesomely. [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 11:57am EDT
  

• Our First Science Fiction Movie!!!

  If you liked The Robbers, Josie & Lucy's pirate movie, then you'll love THREE AGAINST THE SKY! their first space opera. It's the feelgood smash of the summer and much, much better than Star Trek.I've already been fussed at by media-savvy Lucy for not hyping the big KIS redesign project: [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Smith Resigns as head of the TN GOP

  Discuss. [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
  

• Robber Barrons

  PRIVATIZE IT!Remember when we were socialistic moonbats for worrying about things like this? Good times. [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
  

• Flanking on torture

  Unlike most of observers I don't think Obama has ever been trying to close the door on the torture issue. Couldn't it be that he's allowing the inevitable to happen on its own and outside the oval office? If Obama fronted the charge it would have the false but no [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
  

• Party Sanctioned Name Calling

  If you can't improve your own sorry brand lie about the competition and call them names.It's embarrassing and pathetic.And poor Michael Steele. I really do feel sorry for the guy.' [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 12:23pm EDT
  

• Awesomesauce

  A great blogger just scored a column. [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 11:22am EDT
  

• Are we sure Harold Ford Jr isn't running for Governor in TN?

  I mean he's SO pro torture and all. [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
  

• Wingnut Whiplash

  Wait, I thought it was heresy to suggest that any of our troops might be radicalized by America's far right... [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
  

• Del Castillo

  Del Castillo is playing the Levitt Shell on June 6. I never go to concerts, not even to the shows of our house band, but I am so going to be at this one. [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2009, 3:37pm EDT
  

• Thought of the Day

  People without empathy are commonly referred to as psychopaths. [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
  

• Is Joe the Plumber queer*?

  And while I'm asking questions, do people still use the term honky?* I mean, according to the dictionary.' [...]
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  Posted: May 05, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
  

• Feel Good Friday - Problems Into Assets Edition

  It just occurred to me that a pathetically small number of my American friends have heard this. Embedding of the original video is disabled on Youtube, so you'll have to hit this link.Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathensWho would try to change the seasons if they could?The [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
  

• Schadenfreude Ist Die Schoenste Freude

  So I wonder if Norm Coleman is still going to appeal? [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
  

• With Democrats Like These, Who Needs Republicans?

  Dear Congressman Childers,I was very disappointed to learn that you have adopted ridiculous discredited Republican policies by introducing a bill to reduce the Estate Tax, as well as using Republican message strategy by calling it a Death Tax.The Estate Tax is the primary method by which our democracy tries to [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 10:36am EDT
  

• Blog Pool is Open

  I'm taking bets on when someone in the wingnut media declares that Obama should "do the right thing" and resign over this.X = TV or radio pundit, major blogger, or columnistY= How many hours or days' [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 9:28am EDT
  

• Reports of My Death Have Been Grossly Exaggerated

  I heard once that you're dead as a writer when you start copying your own work.Luckily for me, events have conspired to keep this piece strangely relevant, though not for reasons I would like.I would like to take this opportunity to point out that Phil Bredesen is a fucking punk.' [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
  

• Marsha

  Al thinks people are on to the global warming detractors. [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
  

• If I Had a Paper

  If I were in charge of a struggling mid-market newspaper, such as the Commercial Appeal, just as an example, this is what I'd do and why I'd do it.First step: I would organize the employees and coordinate with local leaders and lenders to buy the paper from Scripts. In today's' [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
  

• Conspiracy Wednesday

  Suicide, or suicided? At this point, it's difficult to say. But I'd lay even odds he was about to go public with something that couldn't be allowed to go public. [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 9:22am EDT
  

• "Born to Wank" is a good title...

  In case somebody is looking for a good title. [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
  

• Feel Good Friday - Fuck the RIAA Edition

  Today's selection is only available by download, and congrats to We7.com for being the only website I can find on Google who managed to present this absolutely brilliant track in a format I can easily share with the readers of this blog:Lideres Band - CloseNo embed available, sorry. [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
  

• Icky Sucky People

  I've been getting interesting messages and emails since my Tea Party video hit yesterday. Somebody's even been going through my vids giving them one-star ratings, which is fine. But they even short-starred what are obviously home movies of my daughters.Seriously icky people telling little girls they suck.' [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 1:48pm EDT
  

• A Map of the Death of Memphis

  http://www.fra.dot.gov/Downloads/RRdev/hsrmap.pdfWe're gonna be left behind. But so is Nashville, so that makes it ok.Little Rock or Bust!' [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 5:56pm EDT