From the monthly archives:
July 2014
If you get a chance, read the profile of Joe Biden in the New Yorker today. Biden’s riff on George W. Bush’s soul-reading performance in 2001 (when the idiot in chief looked deeply into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and got “a sense of his soul“), is genius. Biden tells New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos this anecdote […]
a typical house/lawn in hancock park, a los angeles suburb Hi. How are you? Fine? Well that’s just dandy. Because I am not fine. I am fucking weirded out and terrified. Did you know it hasn’t rained in Los Angeles in, like, a million years? It’s undergoing the biggest dry spell since prohibition. Southern California […]
Now you all know I’m not a religious person, but it’s times like this when I wish there was a God, maybe even THE God that this Bryan Fischer tool believes to be in existence. I wish that when Bryan Fischer died (a horrible, painful, exploding pus-filled fiery rash-covered death), he would meet that God, […]
from paul krugman’s blog in today’s NYTimes Chris Christie says that Obamacare is “a failure on a number of levels”. Which levels, exactly? I mean, first-year enrollment is above projections. The number of Americans without insurance has dropped sharply. Costs appear to be lower than expected, and more broadly cost control on health seems to […]
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When I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s/early 80’s, my siblings and I were not allowed to have any toy related guns, no toy guns including water pistols. In fact, we were not allowed to make that gun sign with your hand, you know, when you are pantomiming shooting yourself in the head? […]
My favorite part of the Declaration of Independence is the middle part, the airing of grievances so to speak. It’s basically a laundry list of all the shitty tricks the GOP and teaparty have used to keep the federal government from getting anything done since Raygun. I have always loved that the founders were basically […]
We used to not fucking hire faith based charities for government work at all to avoid “entanglements” that might violate the Establishment clause. But the Supremes decided that test was basically unworkable (it really was kinda fucked up), Congress passed RFRA because they are idiots and the last 5 Presidents have worked at both contracting […]