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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 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 […]

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 […]

What is it we’re supposed to never forget again? George W. Bush, March 13, 2002: Bush listened to the briefing [Bin Laden determined to strike in US], Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.” George W. Bush, August 6, 2011: [Bin Laden’s] just a person who’s been marginalized. […]