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

Another right-wing remix: "The 24 Types of Progressive"

“I’m waiting for the 24 types of ‘progressive’.” –“George,” in comments here. Robert Hayes, who has commented on “Alas” on one or two occasions, jumps into what I dearly hope will become a trend by putting up his rewritten version … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., crossposted on TADA | 21 Comments

Minimum Wage! Hiyah!

I never knew that the way to get rich in America was to become a waiter. I mean, sure,  I suspected; waiters are always driving those sweet ’99 Hyundais, rolling with fat stacks of Washingtons, and spending holidays at their … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like, Elections and politics, Minimum Wage | 22 Comments

Cartoon: The 24 Types of Libertarian

Click on the cartoon to see it bigger. (Much more legible that way.) Script: TITLE: The 24 Types of Libertarian Balding white guy: no fair oversimplifying our simplistic philosophy! Caption: NAIVE Happy guy with goatee: if the government would DISAPPEAR, … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., crossposted on TADA, Economics and the like, Libertarianism | 70 Comments

I Can No Longer Sit Back and Allow Communist Infiltration, Communist Indoctrination, Communist Subversion and the International Communist Conspiracy to Sap and Impurify All of Our Precious Bodily Fluids

Boy, the GOP seems to have picked a real winner in Nevada: At first, [Nevada State Sen. Sharon] Angle appeared to be a conservative beamed to us straight from 1932. She’s come out against the repeal of Prohibition (which she … Continue reading

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Cutting Government Spending Is Tyranny!

The Economist polled Americans about the deficit, government spending, and the like. Overwhelmingly, Americans prefer cutting government spending in order to balance the deficit (62%), compared to only 5% for raising taxes and 24% who favored doing both. But there’s … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like | 44 Comments

Salvation Army attacks sex-positive activist through its human trafficking email list

Sometimes people try to tell me that no one has a problem with S&M; that all stigma against S&M is in our heads and that if we BDSMers would just get over our victim complex, we’d discover that society has … Continue reading

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David Frum on Waterloo: Conservative leaders "led us to abject and irreversible defeat."

Conservative David Frum on the (apparent) passage of health care reform: At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal … Continue reading

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Pawlenty to Uninsured: Drop Dead

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is very good at playing the sensible conservative. He’s got that aw-shucks, Minnesota nice attitude that makes him sound like the type of conservative who isn’t actually bent on destroying anyone below the upper middle class. … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Health Care and Related Issues | 97 Comments

Sadly Accurate

Discussing a hypothetical stipend increase for Americorps volunteers — so that they don’t have to receive food stamps as many now do — John Cole pretty much nails exactly how things would go down: Wanting to negotiate in good faith, … Continue reading

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Sheep Go to Heaven

Is this Carly Fiorina ad the worst political ad of all time of this year? Yes, but of course, the year is young. So much fail, so little time. Is it the way Fiorina suggests that good fiscal conservatives are … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Elections and politics | 86 Comments