So, the Lord's Resistance Army, led by this dude Kony, started off its raping and pillaging in Uganda? And Uganda has always hated teh gays? And Kony, a Christian fundamentalist, hates gays as well? 

...Hmmm. Just sayin'.

And just to clarify, what I'm saying is that the inexorable marc… Read full post »

So the latest civil liberties tragedy that no one cares about is Obama and Holder's non-justification for killing American citizens abroad*. They might as well have kept their mouths shut because we didn't learn anything.

 So the Mormons baptized Anne Frank. Bastards.

Question: How many extra votes would Obama get from independents, women, minorities, Northerners, and people who appreciate balls, if he charged the Republicans in the Virginia legislature with conspiracy to commit mass rape?

Bonus Question: How many more people would learn about what the Virg… Read full post »

A recent Digby post just excerpted something awful I heard on NPR a while ago. The post provides some extra context if your interested, but here it goes:

SINGER: Already, a couple of [police departments] have gotten special licenses to operate [drones], Miami-Dade, Mesa County in Colorado. When the… Read full post »

I just saw 2001: A Space Odyssey. It reminded me of Contact, and that is not a good thing, ladies and gentleman. Here's the moral of both movies: Space travel is totally lame. Just don't do it. You will be dissapointed.

You know what else is dissapointing about watching 2001? It… Read full post »

From the latest Glenn Greenwald posting, comes this important quote from the newspaper business in Australia: 

It is the media’s duty to responsibly report such [classified] material if it comes into their possession. To aggressively attempt to shut WikiLeaks down, to threaten to… Read full post »

I learned that Thomas Jefferson bellowed his "tree of liberty" quote in support of Shays' Rebellion, which was a revolt against wealthy American creditors trying to impose fiscal austerity on the Massachusetts peasantry. Jefferson implied that the creditors were tyrants, and the tree of lib… Read full post »

This is bizarre. I mean, I know that police are racist, but white-on-white, anglo-on-anglo racism? Really? What is this, the Middle Ages?

I wonder if this would have happened in the U.S., where there are plenty of brown people to hate?

... is this. Read full post »

Jesus: So I was walking down Wall St. the other day, and I stopped and stared at that statue of the bull-- you know the one with its ass and balls exposed like some goddamn altar to Baal? I was staring right into that bull's balls, looking at my reflection in… Read full post »

But improvements have been overtaken by volume at the ODNI, as the increased flow of intelligence data overwhelms the system's ability to analyze and use it. Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercep… Read full post »

The kabuki fuckshow known as Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination has begun! Here's the gameplan:

• What the Republicans need to do: make speeches pretending to attack Kagan's Ivy League pedigree, play Mad Libs with Kagan's completely unknown judicial philosophy, accuse her of hating the troops beca
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I've been in open salon for-- oh, a week. So I don't know much about the man RJ Stucker. I am familiar with his comments though. I disagree with his decision to leave OS. I also disagree with him closing the comment section of his post, because his post pretty much… Read full post »

Rushbo. That's who says it. But I have more grizzle and patriotism on just one nut than John Stossel has in his mustache. Don't think that's a lot of grizzle and patriotism? Have you seen John Stossel's mustache? It's exquisite. . .  

You know who else has a lot… Read full post »

persistently mock?

personally massage?

panda monger?

porn mentor?

philosophize morbidly?

pwn militantly?

poke mightily?

peddle magically? 

pester mournfully? 

... paul mooney? Read full post »

rhodes scholar? republican? ron jeremy impersonator? really smart? really _______? ramrod? rocks out with cocks out?

This ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf has got me thinking about the conduct of oil companies in the U.S. as opposed to their conduct in the Third World-- for instance, in the Niger Delta. The analogy that best describes the difference is rape vs. date rape. In the Third World, oil… Read full post »

Bill Werde, editor of Billboard Magazine, says Jackson's death was shocking and tragic — and fans' interest in everything Jackson resulted in the strange benefit of digging the singer out of a deep financial hole:

"Not only does it spur an incredible interest in that artist, which of… Read full post »

In many Muslim countries, perceptions of the U.S. -- which improved signif… Read full post »