Author - Bob Cesca

Torture

Self-Contradiction

I think Limbaugh and Scarborough and the pro-torture gang are getting a little confused with their logic. On one hand, they're downplaying the discomfort -- it's just slapstick or dribbling water...

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Healthcare

Blindness Cured

Macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness, has been cured by British scientists (working from within their inferior commie national healthcare system). And the cure involves embryonic...

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Wingnuts

'I Pray To God You Are'

ThinkProgress reports from the Virginia tea parties: The guy who says that he "prays to God" that the tea baggers are right wing extremists (white supremacists, militia members and the like...

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President Obama

The Big Picture

Naomi Klein joins a small but reputable blogotube clique who can't wait to declare an end to the Obama honeymoon. At the risk of appearing worshippy, I seriously have to ask with all due respect:...

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Wingnuts

Independents and Heroes

Sam Stein posted an interesting summation of independent and moderate reaction to the tea parties. In short, it's not speaking to them. In a broader sense, after eight dark years of division and...

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Economy

Hope

Yglesias on a "good economy" versus a "promising economy": Reading Paul Krugman’s pushback against recent optimism about the economic situation it occurs to me that the whole debate over “green...

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Rush Limbaugh

Slapping Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh: "I just slapped myself. I'm torturing myself right now. That's torture according to these people." I've got a better idea. If he wants to really experience what it's like, he should...

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Torture

Note to Wingnuts

Wingnuts, Your arguments against the release of the torture memos are pointless and you're just making yourselves look like criminal sadists. Fact: President Obama banned torture (including these...

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Wingnuts

Thanks, Governor Perry

Nate Silver: If Texas were not in the Union, the Democrats would currently have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate -- or at least they would once Al Franken gets seated. This is because, in a...

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Torture

Convergeance

The morning torture-pornographers were in rare form today. I'm referring specifically to Doocy and Scarborough. Here's Scarborough: Say, Joe, I'm not defending DHS or NSA surveillance, but for the...

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The Media

Mr. Short Term Memory

Hannity: "This is amazing. But they -- if you have a pro-life bumper sticker on your car, if you have an 'America is overtaxed' bumper sticker, if you have a pro-Second Amendment bumper sticker...

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Wingnuts

Who? Us?

Another Republican talking about shooting people. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) this time: “I think that the decision to raise taxes by 50 percent in Illinois is political suicide,” Kirk said of Quinn’s...

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