Bad political ads: WTF? Edition
Here’s a pretty amazing cross-polanization of two subjects I write about; one I feel compelled to write about because seeing it makes me cringe so (the GOP further alienating the women’s vote) and the...
Daily Archive: September 19, 2013
California Dreaming: A Look at How the Right-Wing Media and Republican Establishment are Conning Their Own Senior Citizens – Literally
The Chair of Citizens United teams up with conservative news sites to offer Republican senior citizens the right-wing version of the Nigerian prince scam.
Bloomberg on the GOP’s Obamacare Alternative: Thank You but Try Again
The GOP still can’t come up with a conservative answer to Obamacare.
The Perfect Outrage Story
A librarian in New York was fired for defending a kid who read too much and was hogging reading prizes at the library. This is probably the perfect outrage story. Conservatives can be outraged...
Have We Gone Too Far Now?
I’m doing a class with 7th and 8th graders on leadership and diversity. Today I asked them to brainstorm a list of words they thought of when they heard the phrase “Sexual Orientation”. One...
Nihil Novi Sub Sole
An unemployed California surfer buys lobster with his SNAP card — wait, where have I heard this before?
“Privilege” is a stupid, obnoxious term.
A poor choice of words has allowed a useful concept to become an epithet.
Thursday Night Bar Fight #15: It’s a trap!
Imagine the classic line, “When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” Now imagine it being said by Charles Nelson Reilly. Or Bill Cosby. Or Shatner. You choose.
