The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

FMJRA 2.0: Washington’s Birthday Hangover Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Does #LGBT Care About a Religious Extremist Burning a Gay Bar? Batshit Crazy News Able2Know Forums Fire Andrea Mitchell DaTechGuy Walla Walla Tea Party Patriots Liberals Hate Books They Don’t Read Fishersville Mike Workers 712, Union Thugs 626 First Street Journal About the @EllenPage #Lesbian Thing… The Pirate’s Cove Regular Right […]

Freedom Wins in Ukraine?

Luxury estate of #Ukraine's president to be handed to the state, parliament rules http://t.co/2ouqHRkjSI & pic.twitter.com/fEjMa0sQxq — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 23, 2014 For now, at least, the boot-heel has been lifted: KIEV, Ukraine — Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority, […]

LGBT Activist Declares: ‘We Need to Start Making Their Lives a Living Hell’

Have you ever heard of Dr. Scott Lively? Me neither, but he’s a conservative Christian who leads a group called Defend the Family International. Dr. Lively has been branded a hatemonger by the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I figure he must be a Great American. Friday, Dr. Lively and others held a press conference […]

Even A River Of Lies Cannot Flow Uphill

by Smitty Look: Progress is dead. The final piece of FDR’s Second Bill of Rights arrived, and it was a river of lies, with headwaters in hell. It’s the law of the land, they tell us, passed fair and square by both houses of Congress, crowned as constitutional by the highest court of the country, […]

Spewing Forth The Lukewarm GOP

by Smitty We don’t really have explicit proof that John McCain threw the 2008 election, like Butch Coolidge was supposed to do in Pulp Fiction. I’m sure McCain must’ve felt a little sting at some point, but the old chap is far beyond pride. The 2010 Tea Party uprising seems to have caught the GOP […]

The World’s Youngest Blogger: Is BHO A Reference To Dilbert’s Colleague Wally?

by Smitty World's Youngest Blogger: "I guess I've already done more actual work than BHO ever has." pic.twitter.com/OaHXS5zkox — Keystone Keynesian (@smitty_one_each) February 22, 2014

Tennessee Worker Liberty Offends UAW; NLRB Appeal Ensues

by Smitty We’ve been getting our schadenfreude on over the Volunteers not volunteering for UAW’s auto-economic asphyxiation. But, as Ted Kennedy’s career demonstrated, evil doesn’t die easily. The NYT: The United Automobile Workers asked the National Labor Relations Board on Friday to order a new unionization election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., asserting […]

Because @kmcdonovgh Knows You’re a Victim of Heteronormative Patriarchy

Salon.com assistant editor Katie McDonough: Evangelical Christianity makes visible — through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of man’s “helpmate” — the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world. While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views […]

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