Aw Fuck. A New Contract on America

ht the Awsomiferous Think Progress Gingrich thinks that the departure of Senator Arlen Specter from the GOP is an opportunity for Republicans to get even more conservative! Awesome!  Concentrated douchebagitude will sell! Why he even wants to reach in his crusty bag of tricks for a brand spankin’ new Contract on America. Cuz really poor [...]

Faustian Torture Bargain Broken

ht FireDogLake Wow, Mephistopheles is not his name–though you’d be hard pressed to convince the tongue-wagging, holy-rolling element of the GOP of this. In as near plain language as a politician can muster, President Barack Obama says that he believes waterboarding is torture when asked the question on whether or not the previous administration sanctioned [...]

WTF is the CDC Squealing About???

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart slaughters cable news for serving up alarm when they should be delivering caution. I mockingly predicted this sort of nonsense: Flu sufferers may be wallowing in a pandemic! Grab the children! You’re gonna die!!!” And… “Next on Fox, Hear what the CDC is squealing about!” Writer Cookie offered this one: [...]

Buddhist Palm Puts Smackdown on Idaho

A man in northern Idaho believes a rock slide on his property miraculously revealed the “Hand of God” in his life. Yet, Kung Fu fans immediately recognize this as the Buddhist Palm, duh. So, like any religiously devout American, 52 year old Paul Grayhek has put a stake in his spiritual experience up on E-Bay. [...]

Carl Edwards Has Something for the Boys

Good God!!! How do you like your near-death experiences?? Carl Edwards survives an amazing airborne crash in Talladega at the Aaron’s 499!  Edwards had the lead in the final lap when his car went perpendicular to another driver’s which then pushed Edwards in front of another car and sent him sailing. He got out of  [...]

Rove and Cheney Have Ballzheimer’s

Balzheimer’s is a terrible, terrible disease, that attacks the spot where a conscience is supposed to be in the brain.  Victims find themselves suddenly possessed with ginormous balls which imbue the afflicted the cajones to accuse others of the things they themselves are guilty of.  There is no known cure. more about “Rove and Cheney [...]

Man of the Day: Shepard Smith

ht Steven “We are America! I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps! We Are America! We do not fucking torture! We don’t do it!”  –Shep Smith, Fox News-dot-com Be still my heart.  Look at him go! Fox News’ Shepard Smith has had it up to ↑HERE↑ with the sophistic, toe-the-right-wing-freak-line “argument” that splits [...]

Bush Administration Official Opposed Torture

Philip Zelikow, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, opposed the legal reasoning aimed at legitimizing torture, and he drew up some memos of his own. Zelikow says that copies of his memos were destroyed by the White House though there are likely some floating around the State Department. more about “Bush Administration [...]

Gay Comedy Storm is Coming

ht Taylor Steven Colbert did a parody on the gay marriage will infect your children and make you gay commercial.  Here’s another good one from Funny or Die.

Hurt Me, Judge Jay Bybee, Hurt Me.

Myspace Glitter Graphics You may be hard pressed to find a greater religious inferiority complex than the one held by the Mormons.   Those at Prophet Central in Salt Lake City cannot be loving the spotlight being shined on their own Judge Jay Bybee. He’s not the missionary tool they are looking for.  Nope, he’s just [...]