Daily Archives: November 8, 2012

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Project Runway All-Stars Season 2 Episode 3 Liveblog

Hi! This is your friendly liveblogger CaptainSnarky here with your weekly Project Runway All-Stars liveblog! Last week, the fashions sent down the runway were, well, asstastic. I mean, wow.

I have no idea what’s going on with these “designers.” It’s almost getting embarrassing to watch these sewtestants send crappy look after crappy look down the runway and garner faint praise from the judges. At any rate, their crapitude is our entertainment, so join us in the comments as we try to make sense of the damnation that walks the runway! Continue reading →

Montana, Meth Labs, and Citizens United

Frontline on PBS recently covered a bizarre story out of the West that might help answer a burning question: Does Citizens United matter?

The Supreme Court handed down the decision in Citizens United in January 2010, which declared that corporations — as associations of individuals — have constitutionally-protected free speech rights under the First Amendment. Political speech is the kind of speech that the courts have most explicitly protected in the past century, and so campaign finance laws that would limit the amount of spending by corporations on political ads (in which they express their political opinions) are therefore unconstitutional. Continue reading →

NFL 2012 – The Week Bots Finally Decided to Stab Andy Reid in the Face

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The election is over, finished and done,
It’s time for football, time for some fun.
Poor Mitt Romney, never thought he would fail,
Now you are free to discuss which celebrities you would nail.
Don’t worry you junkies, never should you fear.
Before you know it, the midterms will be here.
So sit right down and pull up a seat,
My recaps on the season just can’t be beat. 

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