Or , How many nuts could a could a wingnut nut if a wingnut could wing nuts?

I had the sinking feeling that the passing of health care legislation would send the last of the cheese flying off of the respective crackers of the Right Wing, but I thought it would manifest as a spike in purchases of fertilizer and Ryder truck rentals.

Item 1 - Gas line ( Read more... )

By now you have seen footage of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last week, and the asinine amateur theology demonstrated by one Pat Robertson.

Aside from his obvious ignorance on the subject of Afro-Caribbean religions (to the point that I hope ninjacooter didn't have a stroke), his implication that people kicking out an exploitative power are ( Read more... )

Caught this off of The Daily Show by way of Jezebel. If at any point you have had to endure Fox News in the mornings, you have caught "Fox and Friends", the network's morning chat show. My political leanings aside, the fact that I can remember Steve Doocy from his days as the wacky human interest story guy on the local news in Washington, D.C. is ( Read more... )

Folks often wondered if TDS would still have material once Bush the Younger left office.  But the chain reaction of wingnuttery that the Obama administration has inspired (Dow reaching 10,000 points?  Sensible people in office? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!?!?!) has filled the void quite nicely.

Glenn Beck has been laid up with appendicitis, but ( Read more... )

I first heard about the Great Accidental Balloon Hijacking of 2009 That Wasn't while listening to the BBC World Service at work yesterday.  That story spread fast...

Andy Warhol was only half right.  Everybody will only be famous for 15 minutes, sure, but they will live forever as a Internet Meme, as seen below:


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Wow, what a marvelous buffet of jackassery we're having this week!

Item the First - Usually I love the articles  on The Daily Beast, but this one on Malcolm Gladwell reads like scratch paper from a Maxim columnist accidentally put online.  It is written by a guy who seems to be genuinely puzzled that the skinny dude who wrote books in the social ( Read more... )

After reading this article, the School Speech Freakout is starting to make a vague sort of sense.

In an excerpt from his new book Republican Gomorrah, Max Blumenthal examines the radical beliefs about witchcraft and the "serpent seed" that propelled Sarah Palin into politics.

In short, the article discusses the theology of Sarah Palin's Wassila ( Read more... )

By now you have likely heard about the guy who shot up a fitness club because he hadn't had a girlfriend since Reagan was in office; being that my love life, is a little like watching the Challenger take off on its last flight, all I have to say is boo-effin'-hoo.

Rejection sucks, and I have had a lot of it, and failures too.  So much so that I am ( Read more... )

Below is footage of Representative Mike Castle (R- DE) getting a face full of crazy from Birthers barging into his town hall meeting. I love the fact that Hawaii and Alaska became states in the same. damn. year. and the former's Americaness is considered to be more suspect that the latter.

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I think the crux of all this is folks simply not being ( Read more... )

This is just ri-goddam-diculous...

As seen on Yahoo! News


NEW YORK - When toy maker Mattel, working with Nickelodeon, announced earlier this month that a "tween" version of Nick's beloved "Dora the Explorer" cartoon character would be unveiled in the fall, the response was overwhelming ... overwhelmingly negative.

Dora the streetwalker. A sexed-up ( Read more... )