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Archive for December, 2007

Best wishes

Posted: Monday, December 31st, 2007 @ 6:26 pm in Personal | 4 Comments »

A (belated) Merry Christmas, readers, and a Happy New Year to all of you, wingnuts and moonbats alike.
Partisan rancor and truculence will continue in the next few days.

Do Wingnuts Hate Snopes.com?

Posted: Friday, December 21st, 2007 @ 5:58 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

Question: Do all wingnuts hate the Urban Legends Reference Pages, a.k.a. Snopes.com?
I’m asking because the Costco Coulter recently slammed that site in an angry aside:
(No, I did not check the fallacious Snopes, which needs to be Snoped, itself. They get so many things wrong, and I’m not sure who appointed these liberals at that [...]

Tool of the Year

Posted: Friday, December 21st, 2007 @ 5:09 pm in Media, Political | 2 Comments »

Remember a couple days ago I put up a link to a disgusting, jaw-droppingly-stupid article by MSNBC “media analyst” Steve Adubato? You know, the one in which Steve-O complains that Hillary won’t explain “exactly how Vince Foster died”?
Today, Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler has named Steve Adubato “Pundit of the Year” for his [...]

Border Collie Fascists

Posted: Thursday, December 20th, 2007 @ 12:02 am in Dogs and Cats | 2 Comments »

Dave Neiwert today:
[Jonah Goldberg] seems primarily intent on [calling liberals "the real fascists"] by pointing out all of the irrelevant characteristics of the Nazi regime — things that had nothing or little to do with their ideology, and certainly were not unique to it, such as vegetarianism.
I mean, this is just dumb, bad logic: Hitler [...]

Clinton Derangement Syndrome

Posted: Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 @ 9:31 pm in Media, Political | 3 Comments »

Exhibit A: The National Enquirer prints a nasty story about a “John Edwards Love Child Scandal!” Rush Limbaugh immediately rushes to the microphone to speculate that it’s a Clinton-campaign dirty trick. (Tomorrow, the Clinton campaign will arrange for the sun to rise in the east.)
Exhibit B: MSNBC “media analyst” Steve Adubato [...]

The Three Best Defunct Blogs

Posted: Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 @ 6:01 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

I’m still dreaming that these three blogs will be back one day:

Mykeru (gone from the Internet)
Buck Hill (last post 2007/03/31)
Dadahead (last post 2006/04/27)

Wingnut Logic

Posted: Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 @ 4:37 pm in Political | 2 Comments »

Here’s some real-life wingnut logic –

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
Vegetarians are left-wingers.
Ergo, Hitler was a left-winger.

This is for real, readers. Bradrocket of Sadly, No! has gotten his hands on a copy of Jonah Goldberg’s brand-spanking-new opus Liberal Fascism: Just ‘Cause I Said So and has been posting excerpts from it. Don’t miss it, [...]

Hard-hitting political coverage

Posted: Saturday, December 15th, 2007 @ 12:54 pm in Media, Political | 5 Comments »

Who gives a damn about policy proposals? Who cares where presidential candidates stand on the issues? Apparently, what we’re really interested in is how they take their coffee, and what their coffee preferences might tell us (the voters, the American people) about our candidates’ “character and values.” Because, believe it or not, [...]

Saturday Dog Blogging

Posted: Saturday, December 15th, 2007 @ 12:19 pm in Dogs and Cats | No Comments »

Okapi, snoozing quietly
Mystery, in a rare pensive mood

Parody or serious?

Posted: Thursday, December 13th, 2007 @ 4:45 pm in Political | 2 Comments »

Readers, the right-wing blogosphere can be enough to get anybody’s irony-sensors confused. Is the Costco Coulter joking when she complains that the symbol of the New Orleans Police Department is “a religious symbol — that of Islam”?

[T]his symbol is a religious symbol — that of Islam. So why is the ACLU allowing it? Imagine [...]