Did you know that the WWE has a Teabagger wrestler now? His name is Zeb Colter, and I think he’s supposed to be a joke. Maybe? When I was a kid, I sort of followed wrestling. I hated the Iron Sheik, because he seemed like an excuse for WWF fans to spread their jingoistic racism […]
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President Obama Hates the Penny, Too
In a video chat yesterday, President Obama shared some hard truths about the penny when someone asked him why cents were still in circulation: “I gotta tell you … I don’t know,” Obama replied. “It’s one of those things where I think people get attached emotionally to the way things have been … We remember […]
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Will We Be on Mars in Twenty Years?
Popular Science says: Here’s some optimistic news: 71 percent of Americans are confident humans will get to Mars in 20 years, according to a new poll. Here’s some disappointing news: Americans think NASA gets way more of the federal budget than it really does. The second sentence doesn’t surprise me at all. Most Americans think […]
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Gawker to Allow Its Readers to Create Their Own Gawker Blogs
This is either genius or a disaster in the making. Gawker is becoming a full-on blogging platform, starting with their car blog, Jalopnik: You’ll also notice your Kinja blog has the ability to compose. This is so you can use your page like an actual blog, creating original content to be shared, commented on, and […]
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Why the Republican Party Is So White
Over the weekend, the New Republic published a great long essay about the history of the Republican Party and white people. It also explains why the Republican Party isn’t about to get any less white. You should go read the whole thing.
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Karl Rove vs. the Teabaggers: Who Will Win?
If you haven’t already heard, Karl Rove is preparing to drum the Teabaggers out of the Republican Party. The resulting battle would pit two well-funded factions of the conservative base against one another in a set of expensive primaries that could drain resources, produce weakened nominees and set back the GOP’s chances to retake the […]
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Southern Baptist Leader Calls Bigotry “The Heart and Soul of Scouting”
Crooks and Liars says: Dr. Richard Land, who is in charge of addressing social, moral, and ethical concerns as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, says that dropping the ban on gay members and LGBT leaders will be a “catastrophe” for the Boy Scouts of America because excluding homosexuals represents […]
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Canada Still Hasn’t Fallen Into Riots and Bloodshed
The Canadian penny has been dead for two days, and Canada is still there. Should the United States follow suit?
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Bill Would Require Every High School Student in Idaho to Read Atlas Shrugged
Betsy Z. Russell at The Spokesman-Review reports: BOISE – Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school. When Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, asked […]
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Postal Service to Stop Delivering on Saturdays
Even though they don’t have any right to do this, the United States Postal Service has announced that they’ll stop delivering letter mail on Saturdays. Package service will continue. (Congress is supposed to approve all these delivery changes, but somehow the USPS believes they can make it work without Congress this time around.) Before anyone […]
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The List of Best People
If you’re on the NRA’s enemies list, you’re probably a good person. [Retired Price is Right game show host Bob] Barker is among 494 people, organizations and companies on an NRA list of those holding positions it finds hostile. The roster, posted on the website of the largest U.S. pro-gun group, also includes poet Maya […]
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House of Cards Is the Anti-West Wing
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise to regular readers, really, that I’m enjoying the hell out of Netflix’s House of Cards. It’s a political show about the ugly business of Washington DC, starring (and, in a weird, Shakespearean way, hosted by) a duplicitous snake, a politician’s politician. What’s more, the first two episodes are […]