The Awesomeness of the BBC Arabic Report in Egypt

General, the battle draws to a close and I make my report. This is where and how I fought. I fell wounded, lost heart, but did not desert. Though my teeth clattered from fear, I bound my forehead tightly with a red handkerchief to hide the blood, and ran to the assault.  –Nikos Kazantzakis, Report [...]

Les Misérables of Ohio (or Ohio sends a Mother to Jail for Sending her Children to the Good School)

Players: Jean Valjean as Kelley Williams-Bolar Stolen Bread as An Education in the Copley-Fairlawn City Schools Javert as School Superintendent Brian E. Poe and Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh and Assistant Prosecutor Teri Burnside (huge, huge cocksuckers) Magistrate-Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove Various Jurors Many players, profound income disparity, in fair Ohio, where we lay [...]

To Men: Shut-up and Put Out

A husband in Germany sought police intervention to protect him from his sex-crazed wife of 18 years. The family man told law enforcement he was forced to sleep on the couch to try to escape her insatiable appetites.  Police report: ….his wife keeps coming into the living room demanding him to perform his marital duties. [...]

Church of the Pea Brain Makes Jesus Cry

h/t Think Progress Oh, Southern Baptist Convention of the Whitie Mean-Asses, how you try my shit. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention joined the Interfaith Coalition on Mosques because he knows he and his people are citizens of the world.  He had an interest in promoting interfaith efforts. Nice. (Okay, maybe he wants access [...]

Utah: The Depravity State

O, Utah, the bed you’ve made.  You should write a new book of Lamentations on voter remorse. Senator Mike “God-my-ass-is-a-depraved-mother-fucker” Lee (R-UT) believes the Arizona assassin, Jared Loughner, conspired to make us a more civilized America.  So if we do what the shooter wants and exercise a disciplined and civil tongue, we lose. The shooter [...]

Glenn Beck Channeling Rwanda Radio

Glenn Beck’s focus of hate on a 78 year old woman pays off in death threats. Frances Fox Piven is a professor of political science and sociology at City University of New York.  Beck bases his anti-Piven hate speech on an article written when Beck was 2 years old.  Piven’s 1966 piece theorized on a [...]

This Week in Nutters

Wow.  The scrote-munching party has a real gem here. Just days ago new Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) pontificated over the unconstitutionality of federal child labor laws.  Now he asserts federal disaster relief is unconstitutional, and managing catastrophe should be solely the responsibility of the state in crisis. When asked on the feasibility of a state [...]

Hu Knew?

President Obama grabbed the Chinese President Hu bull by the horns of his state visit by emphasizing the importance of universal human rights. Pwn! President Hu slapped him back with a request to respect his nation’s core interests offering that he would extend the same courtesy. Normally these things are handled with penis measuring contests, [...]

Day for a King

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.  -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail I live in a world where kids call “Rosa” in order to claim a seat. [...]

Utah Senator Mike Lee Likes Little Laborers

Tea Party nuts never disappoint: Congress decided it wanted to prohibit [child labor], so it passed a law—no more child labor. The Supreme Court heard a challenge to that and the Supreme Court decided a case in 1918 called Hammer v. Dagenhardt. In that case, the Supreme Court acknowledged something very interesting — that, as [...]