As I’ve mentioned in the past, I was a member of a fraternity while I was in college. This article from the National Review Online, titled “Are Frat Brothers Natural Conservatives?”, came across my radar and immediately piqued my interest.
I’ve seen a handful of responses to this article, but so far I haven’t read anything from anyone that was actually a member of a fraternity. So, I thought I’d chime in with my own view of conservatism in the Greek system. Continue reading
Over the weekend, Politico published an update from the RNC conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over the course of the article, the various Republican party members and leaders interviewed insisted that the 2012 elections weren’t a rejection of the GOP’s policy platform; rather, it was simply that the GOP’s messaging was poor and that no policy changes were needed.
You know, for a second I was concerned that the GOP might actually figure it out. Continue reading
2012 was filled with hot topic political moments. From the 2012 election and financial woes, to domestic and international issues, we’ve seen a wide swath of commentary, posturing, and all out batshittery that’s filled up the airwaves, the cable news channels, and made for much Daily Show fodder.
Let’s take a look at some of the most talked about. Continue reading
Wow. It has been an incredible year for the world’s assholes. Whether they were bombing little children, stealing investor money, or just generally blocking the march of human progress, this year’s biggest jerks made us all a little ashamed to be human beings. Here are the best of the worst. Continue reading
As the small town of Newtown, Connecticut and the nation at large still mourn the deaths of the innocent in the second worst school shooting in American history, our thoughts and feelings are already being shaped into arguments about gun control and mental healthcare in this country. Continue reading
We wonder if those America jeans, or the gold shilling isn’t going so well? We wonder this because Glenn Beck, who’s never been known for being the sanest person to ever set foot out of Fox News, probably needs to stop consuming so many crazy biscuits like immediately. He’s nearing some sort of meltdown. And we imagine if or when it comes, it won’t be pretty. In fact it may require a litter box. Continue reading
Oh, good gracious. We imagine this will be like having lunch with the jerkoff from high school whose mom plays Bridge with your mom, so now you’re obligated to eat with this guy so you can hear all about his sensational plans to travel/go to cooking school/open up a hot dog stand at the baseball stadium or whatever, now that he’s unemployed. You can’t make anyone any promises, but sure, yeah, you’ll see if there are any openings at your company — perhaps in the research lab testing Styrofoam and pantyhose. No, not really, but what can you do? Continue reading
While the president today in a press conference stated his desire to work with Mitt Romney, the failed politician who vied for the presidency decided it would be a good opportunity to discuss all the “gifts” the president gave out to the electorate for their vote. Oh, yeah, he meant specifically to minorities. Continue reading
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
In news that I’m sure is shocking to absolutely no one, when last night’s election results are compared to the polls conducted by Rasmussen Reports, it turns out that Scott Rasmussen put a sweaty, slab-like, thumb on the scale in favour of Republican candidates at both the Presidential and US Senate levels. I decided to do a comparison between last night’s results and Rasmussen’s final polls so that I could quantify for all of our information just how much bullshit Rasmussen is shoveling.
Before I get into the meat of the subject, a few ground rules for this comparison. I looked at states for which Rasmussen Reports published polls with field dates falling within the last three weeks (for the vote for President) or the last four weeks (for the Senate races) before the election. If Rasmussen published more than one poll during that period, I looked only at the most recent one. I have calculated what I refer to as a “net miss”, which is stated as either R+X or O+X. That number is calculated by adding or subtracting the amount by which the Rasmussen poll number for each candidate differed from the final result for that candidate. If Rasmussen showed a given race with Romney five points over his final result and Obama three points under his final result, that would be noted as R+8. Continue reading