From the monthly archives:

April 2014

POOP YOUR PANTS FOR DEMOCRACY

by kara on April 13, 2014

God, Florida, is there ANYTHING you do besides oranges, Disneyland and meth that isn’t straight-up freaking god-awful? In a cascade of cynical ratfuckery that absolutely nobody could have predicted when the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, Florida has come up with a fun new way to keep Democrats from voting. Now, there’s no need to get […]

8-year-old Olivia McConnell was poring over a restaurant menu that listed all the official symbols of her state when she noticed that South Carolina doesn’t have a state fossil (not counting Strom Thurmond). She did some sleuthing, and the bespeckled third grader wrote a letter to her state legislators, Sen. Kevin Johnson and Rep. Robert […]

by kara on April 8, 2014

i’ll be watching this shit.

Actual Elected Official.

by kara on April 7, 2014

This is Allen Quist,  a retired political science professor, who helped  Michele Bachmann win election to the state Senate in 2000. Allen Quist is a 70-year old soybean farmer, gay bathhouse troll who loves dragons and believes that humans and dinosaurs may have coexisted in Southeast Asia as late as the 11th century. Quist was […]

Happy Monday!

by kara on April 7, 2014

Two young girls have been accidentally shot dead by their own brothers in separate gun incidents less than 24 hours apart. One, an 11-year-old girl (above), was shot dead at her family home in Philadelphia on Saturday. The little girl was killed by a gun fired by her two-year-old brother. The toddler is is thought to have […]

by kara on April 6, 2014

Most of us here on the the internets will outlive the Koch Brothers. There is some solace to be had in that thought. Until then, it’s important to make them two of the most famous billionaires in America. There is no reason a single solitary American should not know of the Koch Brothers and what […]