The wingnut governor of Virginia is actually blocking this: A state lawmaker from Virginia is so upset about the Congress repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell that he wants to institute a mini-DADT...
Bob McDonnell Does the Right Thing
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30 Seconds to Mars - "Closer to the Edge" via Chez
They Hate Us for Our Bloomin' Onions
Oh great. Now they'll install naked body scanners at Ruby Tuesday's. Al Qaeda terrorists planned to poison food at multiple US hotels and restaurants over a single weekend, it has been revealed this...
Worst Person in the World
Pat Buchanan for this predictable bit of awfulness and intolerance: You are trying to impose the values of Fire Island on Parris Island. These are 19-year-old Marines, they're very macho guys. Many...
Haley Barbour Defends Racist Group
Boss Hogg in the Weekly Standard: "You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a...
They Hate Him Because He Wins
This new Vanity Fair item about President Obama and why his enemies hate him so much is pretty dead on. And so why do they hate him? Precisely because of the raft of legislative victories he’s...
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Social Distortion - "Machine Gun Blues" Live on Jimmy Kimmel
Eff You, Republicans. Again.
Rat bastards. All of them. On Thursday night, hours before passing the tax cut compromise, House Republicans thwarted a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child...
Haley Barbour is a Big, Sweaty Dumbstupid
Boss Hogg thinks the Jim Crow era in the South wasn't "that bad." In interviews Barbour doesn't have much to say about growing up in the midst of the civil rights revolution. "I just don't remember...
Quote of the Day (So far)
"It, in fact, was not possible for the President to do this through Executive action. This is something that had to happen legislatively if it was really going to happen in a definitive way. The...
Fox News Viewers Wrong on Everything
Here's some predictable, but fun research about how disconnected with reality Fox News viewers are. According to the Program on International Policy Attitudes, Fox News viewers are dumbstupids...
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Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
The Disintegration of John McCain
ROOOOWWWR! Smash! If John McCain gets any more hostile toward his Senate colleagues, they might consider having him go through the metal detector before he enters the Capitol. Saturday's debate on...
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Eskmo - "We Got More" Directed by Cyriak
DADT Repealed!
Don't Ask Don't Tell has been repealed by Congress -- in the nick of time. More details here. Adding... Just like Bush. (Kidding. Sort of.) Seriously, aren't you glad that this was done as a...
We Must Chill!
Yes, Jon Tester is an asshole for being against the DREAM Act. But, once again, I feel like Markos is way off the rails again with this: There are Democrats I expect to be assholes. I never thought...
Quote of the Day (So far)
"Virtually every time Ms. Palin speaks out, she reinforces some of the worst impressions or deepest concerns many of us have about her. If she were to become the voice and representative of the GOP...
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MST3K Saturday - "Keeping Clean and Neat"
Go Shepard Smith!
Shep joins with Jon Stewart -- as well as all reasonable people everywhere -- in blasting the Republican filibuster of the 9/11 first responders healthcare bill. Once again, eff you Republicans.
Sarah Palin Is Not Popular
We should absolutely continue to expose this grifter as the screechy doofus she is, but with the knowledge that despite what cable news says, no one likes her all that much. Her approval ratings are...