It’s on: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the healthcare system’s biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years. It’s hard to tell if this is good news or bad news for President Obama. On the one hand, it […]
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Occupy Sin City
Frank Miller, who is responsible for the worst comics-to-film adaptation I’ve ever seen and who hasn’t made a good comic book since 1992, published an anti-Occupy Wall Street rant on his blog over the weekend. Bleeding Cool helpfully reprints the rant so you don’t have to give Miller the hits: Everybody’s been too damn polite […]
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How Much Does a Kindle Kost?
Gizmodo says: That jaw-dropping $79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs $84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli. Amazon operated at a loss for a long time back in the olden days, of course, but the […]
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Rick Perry Murders His Own Presidential Campaign on Live Television
I have never seen a candidate go down in flames this badly during a debate before. This is incredible: And that was the last anyone ever heard of Rick Perry, except for all the endless YouTube remixes and parodies. Via MSNBC, here’s the transcript: Perry, who has sought to resuscitate his campaign after a string […]
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Bil Keane Is Dead.
The creator of The Family Circus has died at age 89. I don’t (often) enjoy speaking ill of the dead, but the mediocre, sanitized circles of contempt that this man unleashed upon the Earth every day for decades are unforgivable. Even worse: For as long as shitty small-town newspapers manage to eke out their meager […]
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Must-See Video: Teabaggy Rep. Joe Walsh Screams at Voters for Picking on Poor Banks
Required viewing! Required viewing! This video, via Wonkette, is unbelievable: Illinois Republican Representative Joe Walsh, who is best-known for being a teabagger and a scummy deadbeat dad, loses his shit when voters ask him about the market’s culpability in the financial meltdown. Get ready to watch a grown man devolve into a yowling crybaby, and […]
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Who Do Religious Republicans Want?
Religious conservatives get pushed to the background when the economy’s hurting, but Elizabeth Dias at Time linked to a Pew poll of how religious voters are leaning right now: Twenty-one percent of white Evangelicals said they’d like to see Perry win the GOP nomination, while 17% favored Romney and 13% backed Cain. Sixteen percent, meanwhile, […]
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Run Away, Mitt, Run Away!
This very effective Huntsman commercial highlights Mitt Romney’s campaigning style: Keeping Mitt Romney away from situations in which Mitt Romney would have to speak without any kind of prepared statement: The DNC should hire Huntsman’s ad people once he drops out.
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Two Dick Moves from Amazon
Dick Move One: Amazon gave away a self-published author’s e-book for free by accident. They accidentally gave it away 6,116 times. Are they going to compensate the author for accidentally giving his book away for free? Probably not: …Amazon refused to pay royalties on any of the copies it gave away for free. Crawford started […]
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One Cain Accuser Settled for About $45,000
Politico says: …one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement — significantly more than the two or three months’ salary Cain initially recalled the woman obtained. The woman who received the approximately $45,000 […]
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Driver in Mercedes Mows Down Occupy Oakland Protesters
Though this video does show a man running down two Occupy Oakland protesters for daring to bang on the hood of his Mercedes, and though it also shows the aftermath of the vehicular assault, the worst part of this whole event isn’t on the video: The authorities took the driver’s information and then let him […]
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The Nastiest Ad of the 2012 Campaign So Far
You can expect to see a whole lot of these Mitt Romney clips as the 2012 campaign heats up: This is just about the most effective minute-and-a-half ad imaginable. Democrats are already taking out the brass knuckles and getting ready for war.