A private company hired by the UK government to help unemployed disabled people find jobs was, amongst themselves, referring to their clients as "LTBs." That is, "lying, thieving bastards."

In response, people in Britain with disabilities have begun to recount the abusive things they've heard under the Twitter hashtag #heardwhilstdisabled. ( Read more... )

( Eliminationist rhetoric against people with mental illness, ASDs )

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Rob Ford, shitbag mayor of Toronto, has been ousted from office. He's been found guilty of violating conflict-of-interest law due to his having diverted public funds to his football charity.

His WP bio, this column, this timeline, and
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Public Shaming has found a bunch of people who were not happy that a few high school marching bands and dancers from Mexico took part in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Here are just a few:


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So I was reading Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's Facebook page. There are basically three types of comments that have been left for Akin since he lost to Claire McCaskill:

1. Right-wing fundie xtians, many of them obvious Dominionists (I saw one reference to Akin working with kids from Generation Joshua), thanking Akin for standing up for "god," " ( Read more... )

Tracie Egan Morrissey has created a slideshow of Tweets from assholes whose white hoods must have been at the cleaners' the days they posed for their avatar photos ( Read more... )

A lot of right-wingers are buttmad at Nate Silver of Five Thirty-Eight fame, because his mathematical model predicting election outcomes "refuses to perfectly reflect the conventional wisdom spouted by just about every pundit. The pundits do not like this!"

Politico especially. Dylan Byers:For all the confidence Silver puts in his predictions, he ( Read more... )

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So the new book by Chris Stedman, Harvard Humanist "chaplain" and all-around self-righteous little twit, has been excerpted on Salon.

Enough people have already written about Stedman's double standards of behavior for theists and atheists; about his narcissistic humblebragging, passive-aggressiveness, and two-facedness; and especially how full of ( Read more... )