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Call Roy Moore a Perv, Get a Spittle Shower
The list of men called out for bad sexual behavior, from creeping on underaged girls to rape, keeps growing. Comedian Louis C.K., who was trailed for years by rumors of his brand of no-touch (other than himself) sexual assault, is having all his HBO content erased from On Demand. Kevin Spacey’s part in an upcoming […]
Open Thread Nov. 10: Scientology, Mental Illness and an Atheist in Congress
Here’s my question about Roy Moore: What’s with the fucking cowboy hat? You live in Alabama, dipshit. Nobody but a country singer or a phony wears a cowboy hat outside Texas, and Roy Moore ain’t got no guitar. Maybe he thinks it will impress the little girls. No links because he’s not leaving the ballot […]
Clickbait Canapes: Johnstown, Deals and the Great Skedaddle
Donald Trump was right about people getting sick of winning — look at how many Republicans are fleeing Congress. Yahoo asked a bunch of them for their reasons, and while they don’t name the Orange Menace, many echoed Pennsylvania’s Charlie Dent, who said, “You’ve got this administration that’s taken the fun out of dysfunction.” Trump’s […]
Open Thread, Nov. 9: Equal Pay, Elections and Halladay’s Plane
Stories searching for lessons in Tuesday’s election litter the ground like autumn leaves, and I’ll be damned if I rake them all up. A couple of them are worth your time, though. Joan Walsh at The Nation does the best job of pinpointing the reason for the surprising down-ballot wins in Virginia: “This year Democrats ran […]
“Our State Has Decided to Allow Our Children to Become Transgenders”
That’s the opinion of one man, anyway, State Rep. Rich Collins, R-Bedrock, who vows not to let it happen on his watch. WXDE’s Rob Petree, who interviewed Collins, cited the policies at issue, including rules that “school districts and charter schools would be required to work with students and families on providing access to locker […]
Tea and Clickbait: The NFL, Bannon and Brains
Football took another blow to the head at a University of Maryland symposium, with several sportswriters acknowledging that it’s going to be hard to make a collision sport brain-safe. Bob Costas scored the lead quote with “This game destroys people’s brains.” Speaking of brains, young-fogey conservative Matt Lewis took a swipe at unkempt svengali Steve […]
Open Thread Nov. 8: Red Hats, Day Drinking and Denial
Defeat is an orphan, all right, and Trump left Ed Gillespie’s losing race in the convent doorway with a note saying, “He wouldn’t embrace me.” The Daily Beast has the schadenfreude-tastic details. That anecdote about Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller fetching the Boss’s quarter-pounders opened a sluice gate of partially hydrogenated journalism about the president’s diet. The […]
The Right Prayers for Gun Victims
Pious Paul Ryan claims to believe that prayer does work, and that it’s a proper response to gun massacres. Based on the evidence, though, the Big Guy is either deaf in one ear, or else we’re just not saying the right prayers. So what is the proper way to phrase prayers so the words won’t, like […]
Afternoon Clickbait: Taxes, Phony Billionaires and Mickey D’s
Turns out phony billionaire president Donald Trump has more in common with his Treasury Secretary Wilbur Ross than just ownership of shell companies that hide dealings with Russia. Forbes magazine looked into what it called discrepancies in his financial disclosure documents and concluded that he has been crediting himself with $2 billion that never existed. […]
What’s a Colostomy Bag Worth?
Sanctimonious shitbag Paul Ryan has proved his impeccable credentials in that arena yet again, criticizing the “secular left” for dismissing his and all conservatives’ call for thoughts and prayers, claiming that “prayer works.” (No links because the shitbag right is all over this one like flies on a dog turd.) “It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and […]
Open Thread, Nov. 7: Eagles, Fast Cars and Taylor Swift
Alt-right darling Taylor Swift is already widely despised, but for some reason she doesn’t want to be associated with white supremacists — so much so that she has threatened to sue a web site for making note of their love for her. I guess no-talent “artists” have to protect their reputations because that’s all they […]
Second Prize Is a Set of Steak Knives
Donald Doofus was feeling free and easy in Japan Monday, drinking the covfefe that’s only for winners. Did he act steamed again, as he did Sunday, because his hosts had failed to shoot down a missile North Korea fired over its territory? He did not. Rather, he said his golfing buddy Shinzo Abe — he […]
This Is What Fascism Looks Like
Remember the woman who got 15 seconds of fame last week when she flipped off the presidential motorcade? There’s a coda to her story. Her name is Juli Briskman. She told HuffPo that her employer, government contractor Akima LLC, wasn’t pleased about the attention the photo attracted, so they fired her. They told her that because […]
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