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who think that the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" are a celebration of pedophilia:

Really, could you be any more ignorant of the tropes of American song, especially those derived from the blues? In which "daddy" and "mama" are terms of romantic endearment, and "little girl," if infantilizing, is certainly not an indication of a bent ( Read more... )

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You'd think Rivendell Sanctuary were some kind of meditation center for Tolkien fans. No such luck: It's a junior college for fundie kids. Thers:Suppose you have home-schooled your advanced blastocyst in the best evangelical wingnut way, to the age of 18. And suppose you recognize that no matter how much you would like to pray otherwise, your ( Read more... )

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At each campaign stop this season, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been invoking "the Republican glory days of the 1980s" with the following joke:"Remember when Ronald Reagan was president. We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.” It draws ( Read more... )

This ad can be aired only after 10 p.m. in Kentucky:

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I agree with the top-rated YouTube comment: "This ad should be the start of the 2012 election campaign starting on Wednesday Nov. 3rd."

Rachel Maddow did a segment on the ad. Apparently the Ky. Dems decided to make and air it after the Rand campaign reversed its decision about keeping Tim " ( Read more... )

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I've got way too many links to put into one post, so I'm going to break them out a little. This post is the light-hearted stuff.

Via happiestsadist: Hungover owls.

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fizzyland posted a link to this video called "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero." I made it exactly four seconds in before I hit the stop button.

And then I canceled out that attempt to save brain cells by reading some of the comments.


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