The Chronicles of Skoal Rebel

h/t Wonkette I think we’ve found Sarah Palin’s running mate in 2012.  Meet conservative rising star: Skoal Rebel.  He is enjoying a quasi-meteoric rise to fame on youtube. He’s young, and he’ll make Palin look experienced.  His grasp on the state of the world is similiar, but expressed differently, a tiny bit less refined. What [...]

Go Blind with Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Look at what Congressmen never, ever have to deal with. This mother goes blind so she can afford that her daughters do not.  But Blue Cross/Blue Shield says the daughters have had enough eye-sight saving treatment. And as you watch, remember, this woman HAS insurance! more about “Go Blind with Blue Cross/Blue Shield“, posted with [...]

I Like This Republican

I like this Republican Dr. Jeremy Levitt.   He writes in the Orlando Sentinel, “the scourge of anti-Obama fanaticism is nothing more than foolish racism masquerading as patriotism and phony Christianity.” This is the sort of Republican that could fill the party’s leadership vacuum.  This is the sort of conservative I could actually have a civil discussion [...]

Cantor Justifies Callousness

Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) is feeling much maligned that the reactions to his answer to a constituent range from Cantor is insensitive and stupid to Cantor is callous and dickish. Incidentally in the above video, both the news host and Cantor restated portions of the event incorrectly. IE: the patient’s employment status, type of cancer. [...]

Moral Kombat! Jon Stewart on Fun Loving Values Voters

Jon Stewart walks you through the gayest Summit ever. Love the over-the-shoulder graphic, too. more about "Moral Kombat! Jon Stewart on Fun Lov…", posted with vodpod

See Eric Cantor with his Head Up His Ass?

I guess Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) is just one of those people sheltered and privileged to complete stupidity, to whole and utter oblivion to the lives of regular people. He had a health care reform session in his district ,and a woman wanted to know what recourse her loved one had with tumors growing in [...]

Sickos Blaming the Sick

ht Magginkat Both Jay Leno and Arianna Huffington have given glowing reviews to Capitalism: a love story.  The movie equally indicts Republicans and Democrats for the current economic crisis.  The film also features Elizabeth Warren who is now responsible for Congressional oversight of bailout money.  She also happens to be the Harvard professor who conducted [...]

Insurance Execs Dumbfounded by Medical Bankruptcy

ht ThinkProgress Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) confounds insurance executives with the concept of medical bankruptcy, that is when people lose everything because of the cost of health care.  It’s the number one cause of bankruptcy and a major reason people end up on welfare roles.  Perhaps if Conyers had worded the notion as “piss poor [...]

What is it We’re Doing There Again?

Max and the Marginalized  have written a new song about the “escalation in Afghanistan, the changing rationales for it, and the absence of a consensus on what winning really looks like.” If it still makes sense, here in the present tense it has to be worth reexamining The caskets all come home filled with blood [...]

On the Origin of Fecies

Religious right shit-stirrers and pious purveyors of stupid continue to make their impact across America.  According to a Gallup poll conducted this year, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.  And that’s the reason U.S. distributors have not picked up the film, Creation. The movie depicts Charles Darwin’s “struggle between faith [...]