The Public Understanding of Science journal recently published a study analyzing media partisanship and perceptions of global warming. The researchers surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans about their media consumption habits and their views on climate change. Continue reading
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How do you know you’ve lost all control of your campaign? You almost end up in a fist fight with a senior citizen opponent at a function FOR AND ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS!
Anthony Weiner has now entered the SNL rung of his mayoral campaign.
Sure, sure George McDonald, 69, and a GOP challenger, has been harping on Weiner’s scandalous sexting debacle as of late, but you know, how can he not? Once you’ve made the decision to show your peen to an entire internet’s worth of inhabitants and then run for public office, it’s pretty much fair game. Continue reading
It feels like you can’t turn on the news or open a website about politics without someone talking about Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
For me, at least, one of the most infuriating comparisons I’ve heard is between Senator Cruz today and then-Senator Obama in 2004.
Ted Cruz is not Barack Obama. Continue reading
Delusional man-whore and disgraced former Congress-skank Anthony Weiner and his attention-starved genitals are leaving the New York City mayor’s race. In a statement released on the popular genital-flashing website CheckOutMyJunk.com, the congressman, his scrotum drooping with defeat and sadness, said; “Hey Girl HEY! Check out my mad junk, YO! Also, it is with regret that I announce that I am withdrawing my candidacy for mayor of New York. To the good people of New York and to the HOT CHIX of CHECKOUTMYJUNK.COM, I want to thank you for this opportunity to serve you HOT PIX OF MY STEAMING MAN-MEAT AW YEAH!” He also posted gif images of himself making masturbatory gestures. Continue reading
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken to the media to defend his, and his police department’s, record. Let’s examine his arguments to see if they stand up to even basic scrutiny. I’ll be working off the op-ed that Kelly wrote, and which was published in the Wall Street Journal on July 23, 2013. Continue reading
As everyone knows, the first thing everyone does after taking a summer vacation and returning to school or work is talk about it with everyone else, either voluntarily or not.
The House GOP is no different. Fortunately for us, prior to their August recess the House GOP leadership has provided all of its members with an exceptionally detailed guide on what to tell their constituents when asked pesky questions. Continue reading
On Thursday, July 18, Governor Perry signed into law HB2, the bill that would ban abortion in Texas after 20 weeks. The bill would also require all clinics that provide abortion to be upgraded to surgical centers, and would require doctors who perform the service to have admitting privileges to hospitals within 30 miles. The bill was specifically designed to set standards that were impossible to meet in the designated timeframe (September 2014) which means that all but 5 clinics that provide abortions—one of their many services in regards to women’s healthcare—will have to shut their doors. Continue reading
Every so often, something so stupid comes along that you can’t imagine how the author manages to tie their shoes or put on pants, and yet is seemingly well credentialed. Alan Keyes has provided us with such a cache, and I consider it my duty to build a rhetorical Yucca Mountain on top of it to ensure that this kind of weapons-grade stupid is never allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Continue reading
While wandering around on the internet yesterday, I came across an article by Suzanne Venker on FoxNews, via Gin and Tacos. The title of the article was “Men – The New Second Class Citizens”.
Mother of God. This calls for an FJM, to ensure that this stupidity is exposed and deconstructed before it spreads. Continue reading
The troupe travels slowly across the countryside. Neither desert nor marsh nor twin rivers halt its advance. But still the traveling party proceeds with exquisite deliberation. It never skips over a single town or hamlet, no matter how small.
In the cool of the evening the troupe members gather at the nearest suitable venue: The community center, the mosque, the empty schoolyard. And there they put on a show of sorts. There are jokes. Magic tricks. Possibly karaoke, if there is electricity and enough young people attend.
But the closing act is always a man — the same elderly, frail man — speaking in English. About the war.
Iraqis by now are accustomed to foreigners appearing in their country to discuss the war: journalists, aid workers, government men, freelance do-gooders and general dingbats of every stripe. But this battered creature truly knows the story of the war. He pulls no punches in his remarks: Mistakes were made; sacrifices were demanded; savagery was met with greater savagery. He also has opinions about the current government, and about neighboring Iran — but heh-heh, he says, he’ll save those for next time. Continue reading