June 2011
81 posts
Catbus' Three Point Plan On How to Deal With...
ocatbusmycatbus:
- Start from a position that assumes a) yes, she means it; b) yes, she’s qualified to be onstage both in the limited sense (she filed her paperwork) and the larger sense (years as a superconservative activist, law degree, several years of elected office, influential caucus leader).
- Criticize her policies, record, and interpretation of history without attacking her for or...
Random note of the day:
President Obama isn’t going to talk one way or another about gay marriage because it hurts his re-election chances. I know people are upset about it, but shit is not going well right now and if this is the one time Obama punted on an issue until after 2012, I’d be thrilled. There’s just too much going on. You have Libya, the economy, and the fact that Democrats aren’t...
50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will... →
winstonwolfe:
Read this link and tell me if what I wrote is just a lone crazy opinion. To whet your appetite: Sadly, our politicians in Washington D.C. continue to make the problem worse. Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation that anyone has ever come up with in the history of the United States. You could put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand typewriters for a...
“Narratives that disclose news or express opinion used to be called “articles” or...”
– Gene Weingarten
Watchmetheliving:
ailovekago:
Stephen Fry OWNS The pope and the Catholic church
I’m sure I’m posted this speech before but it’s ALWAYS worth the reblog.
CNN found one doctor who is upset by the book "Go...
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“With time running short to reach a deal to avoid a government default, President...”
– unnnnnnnngggggghhhhhh
Dave Weigel on Russia Today →
This one is baffling to me. Jill Filipovic was a guest one time, talking about the Georgia attempt to criminalize some miscarriages, and I just couldn’t get past the fact that it’s state TV, airing in the US, and undoubtedly presenting a view that the US is in decline (there’s a Twitter discussion about this right now, I’ll spare you the details). Even though I agree with...
Tumblr Outrage and the DREAM Act
I started this blog in an attempt to have a better political discussion, but it’s discouraging sometimes. It’s like when I wrote an angry screed about Julia Allison a long time ago and everyone was like YES but I felt gross afterwards because who really gives a shit about Julia Allison? I could write something vicious about Sarah Palin and if it hit the right spots it would get a...
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“Think about your friends, or your sister, or your daughter, son, niece, or...”
– - Amy Poehler for Planned Parenthood (via numnumsbylaura)
Scott Walker did not think about his friends.
Nobody cares that Michele Bachmann got John Wayne...
ocatbusmycatbus:
Blowing it hard during stump speeches is a time honored American tradition and that’s why nobody gives a shit. If you care about it you are the kind of idiot loser who posts on TPM or Thinkprogress or something. Go outside man geez.
SNAPITY DOO!
Obama bypasses Congress and passes the DREAM Act... →
I’m surprised this hasn’t made the rounds on my dashboard, seeing as though there was a bit of raging about it when it didn’t pass in December.
Legality? Questionable.
“I’ve been an uninterrupted subscriber to Rolling Stone since 1983. I read...”
– G.R. Anderson, who has done plenty of reporting on Michele Bachmann, went to Rolling Stone to see if they’d be interested in him writing about Bachmann. They went with Taibbi’s yammering theatrics instead.
