Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Steve Schmidt, chief strategist for the McCain campaign, Bloomington, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008. It’s not like Sarah Palin didn’t try to warn us, ringing those bells and firing those shots and argle bargling those tweets just like Paul Revere did back in the 1400s. She said […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2013
from npr.org The online content director for PopularScience.com announced Tuesday that the website will no longer accept comments on new articles, saying a small but vocal minority of “shrill, boorish specimens of the lower Internet phyla” were ruining it for everyone else. We’re all familiar with that deep, dark rabbit hole of Internet comment boards. A […]
Color me SHOCKED that Ted Cruz is another in the series of fake Texans/humble man of the people (let’s stop blaming Canada for Ted Cruz – he’s from Texas, just like W. Don’t let that horrible state dodge the blame for him just because he were born elsewhere). Come t’ find out, Ol’ Texas Ted wasn’t […]
Sure, they’re just a fat bunch of idiots. But why are they still around? The Tea Party is not engaged in legislating, they are engaged in revolution. This is the only explanation for what they are doing. They are literally out to deliberately destroy the country. And yes, I am using that word correctly. We […]
I keep hearing about all these mysterious “moderate Republicans” who are afraid of a primary challenge. Where the fuck are all these “moderate Republicans” – who seem from the polls to represent a majority of them – during the primaries? Why the holy fuck aren’t they voting? Do they not *know* how to vote in […]
Giglio Harbor, Italy September 17, 2013 The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the “parbuckling” operation outside Giglio harbor. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner early on Tuesday, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery […]
Students protest George W. Bush’s humanitarian award in Denver. (Credit: COSPA) via the nation Denver v. Bush On September 9, more than 100 students, alumni and faculty from the University of Denver rallied against the university’s decision to grant the “Global Service Award” to former president George W. Bush—disregarding 1,600 petition signatures and months […]