February 2012
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Quiz: Republican Politicians & Religion →
Who said: “I do not believe in the Divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.” Hint: A 20th century Republican president!
What about: “By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars. Throughout our...
Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send... →
The other issue in the Vast Pro-College Conspiracy: “Instead, let’s accept that Obama wants to make more Americans into “his image.” Unlike, Obama’s measly two degrees, Santorum holds a B.A., M.B.A. and a J.D. What do you call someone who has joined a relatively elite club but no longer wants to let anyone else in? Rick Santorum, what a snob.”
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A Severe Summary of the Arizona Republican Debate →
Moment most reminiscent of a Flight of the Chonchords dialogue: ”What we’re seeing is a problem in our culture with respect to children being raised by children, children being raised out of wedlock.” – Rick Santorum. “Actually, Bret. When I think about your children, and your children’s children, I actually think your children are too young to be having children....
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Ferengi or Republican? The Candidates in Star Trek... →
One is a group of humanoids who view the accumulation of wealth as life’s central enterprise, devote themselves to a culture of unrestrained capitalism that holds labor unions and workplace regulations as abominations, condone unethical business practices in the service of profit, and are ardently misogynistic. The other is a fictional race of space aliens in the Star Trek universe.
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“Gov. Martin O’Malley’s bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland was...”
– So reports the Baltimore Sun.
The Virginia General Assembly has been busy passing a “personhood” bill and a mandatory-medical-rape for abortion-seekers statute. Next door, Maryland’s House of Delegates is busy adopting marriage equality. This has been a friendly reminder that...
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“Jeremy Lin is anomalous in all sorts of ways. He’s a Harvard grad in the N.B.A.,...”
– David Brooks.
So, David Brooks has never watched a sporting event in his life, yes?
This has been a worse than usual week for opinion writers.
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“In a simpler time Sigmund Freud struggled to understand what women want. Today...”
– James Polulos, “What are women for?”
Can anyone translate WTF this says? I don’t speak word-barf.
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Choose Your Own Adventure, Greek Crisis Edition →
From Crooked Timber:
Reading the media and blogs, it seems to me that left and right are united in the view that the Greek default is being handled appallingly, that the current attempts at a solution are childishly obviously wrong and that everything is the fault of someone, probably the Germans. My own view – that it is not at all clear what the direction of policy is, and that although I...
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“As far as I’m concerned, states have no rights. Only people have...”
– George Romney, campaigning in North Carolina in 1967
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CPAC Guide to Scoring a Hot Date →
Wayne “Juggler” Elise explains to young CPAC conferees how to avoid the “friend zone” and get to the part where you show her your long form.
“The crushing loss of last night’s Super Bowl left New England Patriots fans...”
– Boston Globe.
Whenever my favored team wins, my first stop is always to the opposing media market’s newspapers, where I can bask in others’ dejection. Though this doesn’t come close to the melodramatic “the church bells in New England are silent…” lede I recall...
“The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez’s...”
– Stolen Babies? Immigrant Mother Loses Four Kids. Having your children stolen by the government is a high price to pay for a civil violation.
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Ron Paul Attracts Support of the World's Worst... →
Now that I got the most admirable aspect of the Paul candidacy out of the way, here’s the worst.
The problem with being a crank who publishes race-baiting newsletters, is that in addition to well-meaning followers, you’re bound to receive the support of racist monsters on both sides of the Atlantic…
Members of the nationalist American Third Position Party (A3P), whose website was...
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January 2012
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“One of the biggest reasons is the fact that I know that Speaker Gingrich is a...”
– - Herman Cain. [Herman Cain Cheats on the American People With Newt Gingrich]
It was only two weeks ago that Herman Cain endorsed ”we the people” for the presidency…But sadly, it turned out to be one of those newfangled open endorsements. We, the American people, couldn’t...
“A person involved in Paul’s businesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity to...”
– Ron Paul signed off on racist newsletters in the 1990s, associates say. Again, it’s not so much that he’s a racist as that he played one for cash.
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New Hampshire Legislators Introduce Freedom to... →
Liberty is on the march:
The latest in the New Hampshire legislature’s attempt to beclown their state as the Arizona of New England is House Bill 1581, which would stand up to lobbyists from Big Battered Spouse and prevent police officers from making an arrest in a domestic violence case without first getting a warrant unless the officer witnessed the crime. The Concord Monitor explains…
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“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may...”
– Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice - Yahoo! News (via brooklynmutt)
Well, no. Let’s not use the same logic that tried to say black people were dumb because of their population IQ scores. This is bad analysis for the same reason The Bell Curve was. Just a roundup:
1. IQ does not...
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Rick Santorum Would Rather Do His Taxes Than Spend... →
From the AP:
Rick Santorum is tired, almost broke — and going home…
Santorum says he would rather spend his Saturday sitting at his kitchen table to do his taxes than campaigning in a state where the race for the Republican presidential nomination has become a two-man fight between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
The cash-strapped candidate acknowledges that he simply can’t keep up...
And We're Officially Unhacked. Sorry about that.
I’m not actually a porn site, great as that would be.
Debate Livemocking
First Question Synopsis: “We don’t mean to get racial here, but Mexicans, am I right?”
John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive!
mentalflossr:
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon...
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Can an East New Haven Mayor Be Bigoted if Some of... →
Everything about this transcript is gold and a reminder that local elected officials will always be worse than the federales…
Reporter: “What are you doing for the Latino community today?” Maturo: “I might have tacos when I go home. I’m not quite sure yet. I have spent two years in Puerto Rico, um, I will probably do the same thing for the Latino...
“Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,...”
– Obama, playing motivational speaker. (via shortformblog)
WHY WON’T HE STOP APOLOGIZING FOR AMERICA
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South Carolina Primary Liveblog →
I’ve always wanted to liveblog a natural disaster! But never expected to cover two at the same time — a tornado watch AND a Republican primary in one day is such a treat.
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Rick Santorum Simultaneously Wins and Loses... →
“People are comfortable with dreamers. Why? Dreamers are safe and in a restful...”
– Wilmer Leon
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“[the King assassination is]…a great tragedy that began when we began...”
– - Ronald Reagan, explaining that Martin Luther King, Jr. had it coming. (Via Rick Perlstein)
A reminder that while watching contemporary conservatives’ attempts to appropriate MLK are profoundly annoying (yes, we all know he was a registered Republican, and what of it?), it’s still a...
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Heritage Foundation Study: Canada Is Freedomier... →
The interesting thing, besides the discovery that Heritage analysts are actually Canadian infiltrators (admitting that other people are better than you was the giveaway), is that many policy interventions that are controversial in the United States come standard in the high-ranking countries.
Hong Kong’s public healthcare system is still modeled on the Beveridge Plan that created the...
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“So I think this is going to a very, very difficult year and I think, honestly,...”
– John Bolton, who has endorsed Mitt Romney.
Half-measures like assassinations!
“The psychic spider monkey at the Staten Island Zoo picked Newt Gingrich as the...”
– Why are we even having an election? Grandpa the spider monkey has spoken.
Will the Mitt Romney-Jon Huntsman Tie in Dixville... →
(No).
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Mitt Romney Fears the Pink Slip →
Sure, Mitt Romney may look like like the guy who fired your dad from the plant (if your father worked at American Pad & Paper, GS Technologies, or Dade International, the resemblance is uncanny because Mitt Romney was the guy who fired your dad from the plant), but he’s also ”lived in the economy” and has felt your pain…
Romney, a wealthy venture capitalist who has...
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Senate Democrat Bob Menendez Blocks Obama's... →
Sen. Menendez really beclowns himself here, but I’m annoyed at Pat Leahy. So Menendez doesn’t return the blue slip that Senators use to recommend/block nominees from their home state. So what?
The blue slip isn’t magic and it doesn’t have force of law. It’s just courtesy. Leahy can schedule Judiciary Committee hearings, doing justice to this nominee and setting a...
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“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn...”
– Rick Santorum, 2006