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"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Friday, September 23, 2011

Capital Games

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Some interesting developments and strange juxtapositions in the death penalty arena the last couple weeks (duh). On the one hand, you have...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I Wish I Was Taller, I Wish I Was A Baller; Or, Drill Baby Drill

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Hilarious. Not damning -- if there's a less surprising thing in this world than a 23-year-old sports reporter hooking up with a college...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Decade of Decadence

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Xan had always known the importance of giving people a choice in matters where choice was unimportant. -- P.D. James, The Children of Men ...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

A Man, A Plan, A Canal; Or, Hope Floats

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The Post commentariat work on their next round of bons mots and fnords for the plebes to digest and regurgitate. Maybe it's Hopey-Cha...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Rule of Dumb

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Ed nails it. Once again, your intrepid corporate media manages to create and encourage a teabagger movement where there was none. Outside o...
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In Other News

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I have a couple of projects that I've been working on, that I may decide to do some self-publishing through Amazon's DIY Kindle prog...
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Graphic Violence

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The next time someone asks for a nice visual of the banana-republic wealth/income disparity this nation continues to endure, show 'em th...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

The Power of Positive Thinking

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Bury your treasure, burn your crop Black water risin' and it ain't gonna stop." -- Clutch, (In the Wake of) The Swollen Goat ...

Blog Day Afternoon

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So Governor Goodhair (as the late great Molly Ivins generally referred to him), who now as ever looks and swaggers like an unholy cross bet...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Straight to Video

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Doop de doop, let's check in on Rupert Murdoch's American agitprop tabloid arm , and see how Precious' Triumph of the Shrill ha...
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The Unexamined Life

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Marcus Bachmann takes on clients of all ages. Apparently there are rumors ahoof that Marcus Bachmann might be gay. Folks have taken to par...

American Nightmare

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I would think that everyone who would enjoy Breaking Bad has already been watching it, but just in case....Go. Now. Get on your Netflix que...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Social Distortion

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With a mere sixteen months(!) before the next election, the tedious strategy circus on both "sides" will start picking up speed. T...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Child Abuse

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So PZ Myers writes a perfectly nice, reasonable, and eminently sensible "Yes Virginia" type post, publicly directed toward a youn...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Clown Car Contestants

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Taibbi has some pretty good smackdown on the rising political star of Mary Tyler Moron. Aside from having a gerrymandered district consisti...
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Get the Frack Out

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Let's keep it simple: anybody who's fine with fracking needs to be fine with it in their own backyard . Funny how all these warnin...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Magical History Tour

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Ahahahaha: In Sarah’s version, Revere was “He who warned, uh, the…the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ri...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Cheesy Rider

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Once again, if we accept the classic premise that markets act on demand, then our corporate media is a reflection of us as a nation, a bloa...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

A Beautiful Mind

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One of Saint Sarah's less-than-gruntled former toadies has scrawled a "tell-all", adding to the publishing industry's lar...
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News You Can Lose

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Give us this day our daily cognitive dissonance: MSNBC host calls Laura Ingraham a "slut" and gets his fat ass suspended for a w...
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