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• Ownership

  This is appalling example of unfair, regressive taxation:
  [A] generous tax break for hedge fund managers, private-equity specialists, and venture capitalists ... has long been a target of tax equity advocates, who say it unfairly enriches high-earning financiers. Partners in those sectors of the investment industry enjoy a 15 [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  

• Why is this?

  There could be lots of maps like this one from the New York Times on food stamp nutritional support:
  
  The now solidly Republican and always conservative South is anti-tax as an article of faith, but it suckles lustily at the teat of the federal government. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

• God is great

  Tonight, I heard again the commonplace expression, "God is great." In Arabic, it would be "Allahu akbar."
  
  I didn't think it was a marker of terrorism. I didn't mistake it for anything but a culture-specific assertion of faith, an attempt to bring religion into the public sphere.
  
  I [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:32pm EST
  

• Lessons of Nam

  Slow-learning wingnuts want to draft Cheney. At least they've learned that he won't volunteer.
  
  Hey, you think I could get a story on CNN by the mere act of building a web site about a prominent Democrat? Would it have to be as cheesy and ridiculously thin and [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  

• Outrage, fine

  ... but no censorship. Google shouldn't be picking and choosing what we can see, and they already allow each of us to choose to exclude offensive images.
  "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine'" [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Slandering Teilhard

  I've been following the Juxtacomm v. Ascential et al patent saga for years, especially for the past year on Vincent McBurney's now-silenced blog. Some pretty harsh things have been said on all sides, especially by the self-appointed defenders of management but also by various factions of shareholders. I've said [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:29am EST
  

• The lone Republican answer

  Tax cuts! Economy's great? Cut taxes. Economy sucks? Cut taxes. And devil take the hindmost. If that's the hindmost half or more, so be it. That's Scott Brown's predictable panacea.
  
  Typically, Brown ignored a key inconvenient fact: In fact, Massachusetts unemployment dropped by a record amount last month, [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  

• Making a difference

  Click image for full Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Faith and proof

  
  The Shroud of Turin is a proven fake. Proven. It's not a coincidence that the face looks like a 14th century painting. That's exactly what it is.
  
  Faithful believers simply cannot be dissuaded from a story they like. No amount of scientific evidence is [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:31pm EST
  

• Too little, too late

  Nearly a year ago, Paul Krugman said that the $800 billion stimulus wouldn't fill the gap in aggregate demand. His colleagues are catching up.
  Optimistic assumptions in turn contributed to producing a package that if anything is too small, analysts say. “The economy was weaker than we thought at' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

• Pro-death

  They call themselves pro-life, but their votes against stem cell research are pro-death. We should call them out on that. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:10pm EST
  

• The bait not taken

  A couple of days ago, I received an odd email about Juxtacomm v. Ascential. Unless my correspondent (who, again, could be totally innocent) spoofed his email header, his ISP is in Calgary.
  
  The redacted text is:
  My name is __________ and I am a medium investor in Teilhard. I [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:37am EST
  

• Duhbya in an up-do

  With all the media foofaraw over Sarah Palin's expensive new ghost-written book, the liberal blogosphere has been all over the map trying to read the tea leaves about her future. The consensus is that, if she has a future, America as a success doesn't.
  
  It's that if that divides' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:18am EST
  

• Connecting the dot

  Singular. The FBI looked into Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan correspondence with a radical Islamic cleric. Good. They should have. It was certainly alarming on its face.
  
  Many Republicans, including Joe Lieberman, already have a diagnosis for why the FBI didn't make waves about it, and they don't even [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:29pm EST
  

• The magic lie

  The Velvet Revolution began with a lie, so the New York Times says:
  On Tuesday, thousands of Czechs marched through the streets here, to the sound of wailing sirens and the growls of police dogs, eerily replicating a nonviolent student march on Nov. 17, 1989, in which the police [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Suckers!

  Newly elected Republican governors Christie and McDonnell just couldn't fit Sarah Palin into their schedules. They would have, honest, but they wrote their schedules in cuneiform on stone tablets four months in advance.
  
  They are counting on Palin's supporters to believe such obvious bullshit. I guess if anyone' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• Can't alienate the asylum

  Even though Republican Bob McDonnell ran to the center to win the governorship of Virginia, he is a bona fide fundie social conservative, a wolf in sheep's clothing. So it's not surprising that Pat Robertson and he are political associates.
  
  Of course, Robertson only has a short half-life [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  

• No liberal could get this coverage

  Rudy Giuliani, who holds no position of importance in any organization, said something critical of Barack Obama. O.K., fine, he once executive officer over New York City on 9/11, and it's much bigger than many states whose Republican governors get attention waaay out of proportion with the population they represent. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:06am EST
  

• Wiener dawgs unite!

  
  Click image for full Joel Pett/Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:31am EST
  

• A dose of Mao with your morning smack

  Not funny at all, but right on point...
  
  Click image for full Rex Babin/Sacramento Bee cartoon.
  
  (Mao? And then the Great Leap Forward...) [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:19am EST
  

• Our media at work

  Personality and, hopefully, whiffs of scandal trump everything.
  
  All that stuff about beliefs and records? They'll mention it in passing:
  Capuano has compiled one of the more liberal voting records on Capitol Hill. He voted against the authorization to invade Iraq, opposed the Patriot Act, and is opposed' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:18pm EST
  

• Lawyers in Juxtacomm v. Ascential

  Had a few spare minutes at lunch six or seven weeks ago to Google up a few links related to this case and found that lawyers are beginning to tout their participation. At the time, I decided not to help the plaintiff by posting this, but that's moot now.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• Maybe we can

  Click image for full Joel Pett/USAToday cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:48pm EST
  

• Going Vogue

  Strike a pose...
  
  When I snark about the wingnut Madonna, I don't mean that she's like the (alleged) virgin, although both Sarah and Mary were preggers when they eloped. Maybe that's the source of her inflated sense of self-worth!
  
  Click image for full Joel' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  

• No no no

  Click image for full Joel Pett/Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  

• Ironclad rule

  While it's not news that the Bushists lied morning, noon, and night, it's always useful to have the details. The professional media have little to no interest in uncovering them.
  
  By now, no one who covers politics for a living should ever take at face value what [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  

• Wasserman

  It's clear that I need to be reading Dan Wasserman's cartoons a lot more often:
  On the Stupak amendmentOn Joe Lieberman's conscience (alleged)On Republican irony
  On the Democrats who would like to "replace" Ted Kennedy (Martha Coakley - ouch!)So, I've added Wasserman to one of my [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:17am EST
  

• The young apprentice

  Click image for full Jack Ohman/Portland Oregonian cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:06am EST
  

• Lessons lost in history

  
  Republicans and their propagandists think you deserve your unemployment. Democrats, including President Obama, aren't making the political case for adequate stimulus.
  
  Click image for full Bruce Plante/Tulsa World cartoon.' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:52am EST
  

• Teilhard to shareholders: Drop dead

  Since I'm not a shareholder (blissfully), I haven't seen yesterday's long-awaited release from the Teilhard gang, but it must've been a doozy. After holding every tiny piece of information tighter than the Kremlin for two years or more, they chose glasnost and opened their books to their shareholders. As if.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  

• More non-new Republican press release journalism

  A Republican says no to a Democratic proposal. [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  

• Tory tea party

  An American Teabagger named Nigel is going to burn Nancy Pelosi and his own Congressman in effigy. Wasn't it his English tea that Sam Adams and friends tossed into Boston Harbor? Nigel's going to all this effort for what he estimates will be a hundred people, so he was probably [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:35pm EST
  

• Teilhard v. Teilhard

  Here's another open thread for the furious controversy related to JuxtaComm v. Ascential, et al, over whether Teilhard management is screwing its shareholders or not. The previous unsuccessful thread is here.
  
  Vincent McBurney has closed his latest blog post to comments, and the concerned shareholders don't have [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:57pm EST
  

• Taint so

  ACORN was a scalp for Fox and the wingnuts. Did ACORN get stung? Sure. To a degree, they even deserved it, but their main sin in conservatopia is that they register po' folks to vote and to voice their concerns.
  
  Congress, led by consistently pusillanimous Democrats, fell all over' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:38am EST
  

• This is news?

  Republican are hypocrites.
  The Republican National Committee has instructed its insurance company to remove a provision from the committee's health insurance policy that covered elective abortion for employees.Talk about a dog-bites-man story...
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:34am EST
  

• Nuke up some popcorn

  When Sarah Palin snipes and John McCain and McCain's people fight back, don't pick sides. Just enjoy the show.
  
  Side note: You can always count on the media having the back of fellow big media outlets. Remember the hysterical defense of propaganda outlet Fox? Here's another case of' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:28am EST
  

• Win elections instead

  Republicans always want term limits when they're out of power.' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• Smooch!

  CNN correspondents such as Dana Bash do not make up for themselves characterizations of any politician as a "regular guy". They take in the bullshit from their "GOP sources", masticate it just slightly, and regurgitate it for our little-bird consumption.
  
  Oh we're not still confined to the nest?[...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:46pm EST
  

• Coakley takes a chance

  Martha Coakley is a very careful politician. For years, it has been tough to get her to make definitive statements about most issues of the day (and that's why I support Mike Capuano - no such difficulty there).
  
  So I find it odd that she has stuck her' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

• The right moment

  Click image for full Robert Unell/Kansas City Star cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

• How you know the recession is still going strong

  Low-production-value local ads are running on Monday Night Football. Roni Deutch. Standard def!? Bob's Furniture. Even major college NCAA football runs cheap and cheesy ads.
  
  Newspapers aren't the only medium with business model problems. [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  

• Californicated

  Ill winds blow through America. Extremists, for whom freedom means the enforcement of their beliefs on everyone else and for whom the idea of America is not constitutional democracy but rather the triumph of their tribe, are untethered to reality or restraint:
  Real power in the party rests, instead, [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:37pm EST
  

• Not about the deficit

  Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who object to the House health care bill care about something other than deficit reduction:
  The plan will cost more over the next decade than the $900 billion limit Obama had set, but a combination of spending reductions and tax increases will more than [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:47pm EST
  

• It was twenty years ago...

  ... tomorrow.
  
  Be sure to see the New York Times's swarm journalist remembrance of the sudden and long-awaited fall of the Berlin Wall. The photos and simple narratives make me wish I had dropped everything in 1989 and travelled to Berlin to see for myself the crumbling of' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  

• Broken looking glass

  Click image for full Clay Bennett/Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  

• Don't bother trying

  These guys can't be satisfied or mollified or putrefied (any further).
  
  Click image for full Chan Lowe/ Sun-Sentinel cartoon.' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  

• Mud in your eye

  There goes the shut-out.
  
  Click image for full John Cole/ Scranton Times-Tribune cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:41pm EST
  

• Rally 'round the wingnuts

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

  
  
  The amazing thing is that the teabagger movement keeps emailing me, as if they could possibly win me over. Today, I received two emails, one from Arkansas, the other threatening a lawsuit based on [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:21am EST
  

• Up is down

  Conservatives backed Doug Hoffman in NY-23 because the hand-picked Republican wasn't extreme. They and Hoffman lost a seat that no Democrat had held in a hundred years. But it's a glorious victory for the revolution!
  "(T)he GOP now must recognize it will either lose without conservatives or will win'" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:17am EST
  

• Lying for a living

  In the aftermath of the White House calling Fox out for arrant propaganda, the so-called Fox ratings spike turns out to be bullshit.
  What happened when you included October 24 and October 25 in the tabulation to make a true two-week-vs.-two-week comparison? Suddenly, that 9 percent gain in [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• Swimmingly

  Click image for full Matt Davies/Journal News cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  

• Commit to your puns

  
  
  Get Fuzzy, by Darby Conley, embedded from here. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:59pm EST
  

• Sweat equity

  Click image for full G.B. Trudeau "Doonesbury". [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:53pm EST
  

• Trickle down

  Click image for full Nate Beeler/Washington Examiner cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Band-Aid on open heart surgery

  Tort "reform" is one of the Republican's favorite health reform. But of course it's not really a health reform. Its purpose is to allow large corporations to escape financial responsibility for their actions.
  
  You thought it was about doctors and nurses!? Don't be naive.
  
  You thought it' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
  

• The real question

  ... is not whether Joe Biden cares what Darth Cheney thinks. Why does the media care about what Cheney thinks after his utter and abject failure as Regent, Vice President, and human being? [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
  

• Against forgetting

  The day that Russia's President, Dmitri Medvedev, cautions against amnesia of Joseph Stalin's huge crimes is a day I can agree with him.
  
  My own caution would go further. It was the economic failures of capitalism in the first 30 years of the 20th century that gave rise [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:14pm EDT
  

• Giggle test

  Only a raving narcissist could ever speak this way through her hero:
  “We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it,” Galt lectures the “looters” and “moochers” who make up the populace. “We have no demands [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:01pm EDT
  

• Choosing your opponent

  So the DNC is attacking Sarah Palin for the bullshit she has posted on Facebook:
  A few months back, Palin took to Facebook to declare that health reform would create "death panels," and drive private insurers out of business -- and nonpartisan fact-check sites and the independent Congressional Budget [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:35am EDT
  

• Perfect Romney

  Faced with a choice, Mitt Romney refuses to make any choice before he's sure it will help him. Don't ever look for him to have your back without self-serving calculation.' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
  

• Schwarzenegger f-bomb

  On CNN, the pro-Ahnuld commenters seem to be evenly divided between those who cling to the transparent lie that Schwarzenegger's "fuck you" to the legislature was a mere coincidence and those who applaud the sentiment. Republicans, a coalition of prudes and assholes! It's no wonder the party's falling apart.[...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:13pm EDT
  

• OK, you're fat

  Jon Corzine should go ahead and say, "You call yourself fat, Chris. Stop playing the victim. I would have said obese if that's what I was talking about. The important thing about you is not the size of your appetites. It's the size of your ego. You think that" [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:55pm EDT
  

• Paperless

  Some results from ending my paper subscription to the Boston Globe:
  Once it's in your hand, paper has higher bandwidth than the Internet.I really, really can't tell when I'm finished on line.It's easier to read more deeply from paper than from web sites.It's easier to find interesting stories in paper [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  

• Religious extremists

  One shot dead by the FBI:
  ''He regularly preaches anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric,'' Leone said. ''______ and his followers have trained regularly in the use of firearms, and continue to train in martial arts and sword fighting.''Except for the name that I blanked, this m.o. could have been [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:23pm EDT
  

• Scary Movie too

  
  Click image for full Rob Rogers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
  

• Scary Movie 2

  Click image for full Deb Milbrath cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
  

• Getting right with god

  [T]he football cheerleaders at a public high school here wanted to make the Bible a bigger part of Friday night games. So, ... they painted messages like "Commit to the Lord" on giant paper banners...
  
  That eight-year-old tradition ended last month after a parent expressed concern that it could [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  

• Fool me once

  
  Click image for full Tom Toles/Washington Post cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
  

• For the little people

  Not just taxes any more...
  
  Click image for full Jeff Danziger cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
  

• Death panels, killing granny, killing babies

  See! See! All of Fox Nation was absolutely right that health care reform is about killing people to save a buck:
  These are “exclusion criteria,” which bar certain categories of patients from standard hospital treatments in a severe health disaster, and “minimum qualifications for survival,” which limit the resources [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:58am EDT
  

• Son of FISA

  "The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough."
  
  The U.S. is trailing the U.K. in achieving the surveillance state. Trailing is a good thing. But the U.K.'s lead is tenuous.
  
  Even though FISA was extremely easy to satisfy, it was amended [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
  

• Bread and circus, hold the bread

  Frank Rich nails it:
  Richard Heene is the inevitable product of this reigning culture, where “news,” “reality” television and reality itself are hopelessly scrambled and the warp-speed imperatives of cable-Internet competition allow no time for fact checking. Norman Lear, about the only prominent American to express any empathy for [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:38pm EDT
  

• Scott Brown confesses

  The lone remaining Republican running for Senate in Massachusetts apparently believes that the flag is as important as American history, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.
  
  He admits, "I'm a lightweight. I have no ideas to actually make America better. All I care about is window-dressing."
  [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:22pm EDT
  

• Do as I say

  Click image for full Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:33am EDT
  

• For thee

  Click image for full Chan Lowe/Sun-Sentinel cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:25am EDT
  

• Billionaires

  
  
  These merry pranksters should have their own weekly show. Unfortunately, the wealthy people and corporations who run the media just aren't as thrilled with this sort of infotainment as they are with Glenn Beck's weepy hysteria or Bill O'Reilly's proud belligerent ignorance or Rush Limbaugh's self-fellating smugness.[...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 11:43am EDT
  

• Reform tort reform?

  John Perr at Crooks and Liars does a great job of calling bullshit on Republican claims about tort reform.
  [L]argely overlooked in the heated discussions of damage award caps, special health courts, expert panels and national compensation schedules is the inescapable truth that the medical malpractice system has only [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
  

• Darth demento

  We know that Dick Cheney is a vicious anti-democratic lunatic. That's a given. But is he demented?
  
  After his administration failed in Afghanistan for seven year and almost completely ignored it in favor of their adventure in Iraq for the last five, he has the damn gall to' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  

• Truth in journalism

  The press uses a lot of rhetorical devices to blow the actual news out of proportion. Much as I think Michael Steele is loopy and weak - and therefore cause for celebration - he did not by any means say anything that could truthfully be construed as "Steele 'not'" [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
  

• Media noche

  Click image for full Jimmy Margulies/The Record cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• Hope is still not a plan

  Click image for full G.B. Trudeau cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
  

• New! Xtreme representation

  
  
  (h/t Essays & Effluvia) [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 4:10pm EDT
  

• Aye-firmative

  Click image for full Clay Bennett/Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
  

• Why liberals think Republicans harbor racists

  Again, because they do.
  [Keith] Bardwell, a Republican, has served as justice of peace for 34 years.At least, this time, Bobby Jindal is calling for Bardwell to resign.
  
  Meanwhile, CNN won't mention Bardwell's party. Since this is about his official duties, there should be no excuse that' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:27am EDT
  

• Obviously

  ... the problem must be heterosexual priests.
  
  How did ascetic traditions become so powerful and popular in Christianity? What was their attraction in the first place? Was it that sex in pagan Rome was such a weapon of the ruling class and then it snowballed from there?
  
  [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  

• Lies a-mouldering in the grave

  Since no doubt some of their readers are still fighting the Civil War, the AP sees fit, in a story about John Brown's raid 150 years ago today, to give equal time to "the War Between the States". Am I supposed to be happy they didn't call it' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:03pm EDT
  

• Bias for comforting falsehoods

  Fox viewers prefer to be reassured that their ignorance of reality is correct. They'd rather not know the truth about basic facts if they would then have to surrender any of their bullshit opinions.
  By taking sides so brazenly, Fox has gained audience share at the expense of turning' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
  

• Calling Pharaoh's daughter

  Click image for full David Horsey/Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
  

• Affordability is job one

  Democrats who want health care reform without the reform - absent a toothy public option - are trying to combine bad health policy with bad politics and bad fiscal policy. Many of the very people who should love it, the Democratic Party's natural constituency in the middle class, would hate [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
  

• Wretched refusal

  Greetings, news-and-politics junkies. It's David Westphal here from USC Annenberg. We're witnessing quite a showdown these days between the White House and Fox News, with the White House raising the stakes last Sunday on Howard Kurtz' "Reliable Sources" show on CNN. Is this just a tactical, get-tough move by the' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:14pm EDT
  

• Killing the keywords

  Not that anyone will care, but I have a massive keyword debt overhang. Blogger sprang a 2000-label limit on me, and evidently I was waaay over the ceiling. What! They want me to rely on Google to find sh-stuff?!
  
  I'm trying to comply, not for sake of compliance, but' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:12pm EDT
  

• Market efficiency

  Click image for full Paul Fell cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
  

• Limits of skepticism

  In our bullshit-drenched world, a healthy dose of skepticism is nearly always the way to the truth. Bill Maher shows unhealthy skepticism:

  Mr. Maher questioned letting someone stick “a disease into your arm,” wrongly implying that the flu shot contains a live virus. The flu shot is a killed vaccine.
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
  

• All things to all people

  Click image for full Tom Tomorrow/Salon cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
  

• What Republicans care about

  It sho' ain't health care reform. It's not even cost containment.
  
  Republicans care about immunizing medical providers - and especially their insurance carriers - against the suffering they cause when they injure or kill patients. That's what so-called tort reform is about, not about doing justice or saving money.
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 4:49pm EDT
  

• Wrong jobs outsourced

  Click image for full Dilbert by Scott Adams. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
  

• Dying happy

  Click image for full Mike Luckovich cartoon. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
  

• Cheers to peace

  Nobel Insiders: Beer Summit Sealed it for Obama [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
  

• Right to keep and bear stupidity

  Republicans in Florida are taking potshots at cut-outs of their sitting Democratic Representative, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and of Muslims.
  Organizer Ed Napolitano defended the gathering, as well as the use of posters of what appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves as targets. “That’s our right,’’ said [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
  

• Embarrassing label

  Who'd want to be a Republican now?
  The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 1:00pm EDT