Category Archives: Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc.

Cartoon: Global Warming Can’t Be Real

TRANSCRIPT Panel 1 The image shows a businessman wearing a jacket and tie and standing on a tiny planet Earth. He is angrily lecturing. In the background we see outer space. MAN: Global warming can’t be real. Because if it … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Environmental issues | 40 Comments

My Wacky Alternative Plan For How The GOP Can Get Its Santa List

From the New York Times: Also behind closed doors in the Capitol, House Republican leaders laid out their demands for a debt-ceiling increase to the Republican rank and file. They include a one-year delay of the president’s health care law, … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., In the news | 8 Comments

The Masters Of The Universe Are Moral Idiots

AIG’s CEO Robert Benmosche, the CEO of AIG, told the Wall Street Journal that anger because much of the bailout money given to AIG was used for gigantic bonuses, is “just as bad and just as wrong” as lynchings were. … Continue reading

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 14 Comments

A quick thought on Todd Akin

Although, really, a quick thought is far more than this guy deserves. I wish people got this much attention for saying something really smart (which isn’t to say that we shouldn’t take notice when people with power believe this shit). … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 41 Comments

A Very Serious, Thoughtful Vetting Which Has Never Been Done In Such Detail or With Such Care

“Why, once I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 35 Comments

Openly Gay Republican Driven Off Romney’s Team

Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin: Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives. […] According to sources familiar … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., In the news, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 13 Comments

Now Next Friday Come I Didn’t Have the Rent, and Out the Door I Went

Here’s a little Schadenfreude to start the week off right: The Minnesota Republican Party’s financial woes continue with the filing last week of eviction papers that could oust the party from its headquarters in a St. Paul building. Politics in Minnesota notes that … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Elections and politics | 3 Comments

Reagan and Bush Sr. Debate Immigration

Alex Knapp writes: I’m not sure what astounds me more. The compassion and pragmatism in Reagan and Bush’s positions on illegal immigration, or the fact that they’re not speaking in talking points. Conor Friedersdorf writes: Of course, the fact that … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., crossposted on TADA, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc | 1 Comment

It’s Not My Business

It should come as no surprise — though it should shock anyone with any decency — that the Tea Party fanatics would applaud the idea of letting the uninsured die: ‘Let Him Die’: Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers This is … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like, Health Care and Related Issues | 17 Comments

Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream

Kindergarten showcases many basic principles which most of us learn there or at our parents’ knees:  take turns, share the toys, fair is fair, and so on.  Later on, “fair is fair” gets refined in many ways, one of which … Continue reading

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Disabled Rights & Issues, Education, Elections and politics, Social Security, Uncategorized | 198 Comments