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Archive for April, 2008

Taking Personal Responsibility, or “Clamouring for Gansta-Rap”

Posted: Thursday, April 10th, 2008 @ 9:11 pm in Political | 16 Comments »

Who believes in personal responsibility, readers? Wingnuts do, that’s who.
Presidential candidate Sen. John Sidney McCain III (R – AZ) thinks Americans need to take personal responsibility for their chronic illnesses:
John McCain Believes in Personal Responsibility
* We must do more to take care of ourselves to prevent chronic diseases when possible, and do more to [...]

Holier-than-thou

Posted: Friday, April 4th, 2008 @ 12:22 pm in Media | 2 Comments »

In the previous post, I linked to a TMZ.com item that said Barack Obama might be sneaking the occasional cigarette. Now I have seen Jake Tapper’s blog post (one of the sources for the TMZ post I linked to), and it just drips with holier-than-thou hokum. It’s not the smoking, readers — it’s [...]

Cigarettes

Posted: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 10:25 pm in Personal | 1 Comment »

TMZ.com reports that Barack Obama might still be smoking cigarettes on the Q.T.
Forget about gender and skin color — is today’s America ready for a President who smokes? As we all know, it’s considered diabolically wicked to indulge in cigs these days. Anti-tobacco fanaticism has become so mainstream, and so fanatical, that smokers [...]