Cartoon: The 24 Types of Libertarian

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I think that I’ve done bat­tle with all of these jok­ers.

Alan Grayson Channels President Eisenhower

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Warning: Political con­tent ahead!

Stuperintentent of Public Instruction

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WARNING: Political con­tent ahead.

Like they say, all pol­i­tics are local, so here is a won­der­ful slice of Arizona pol­i­tics via Think Progress. The long and short of it is that the Republican can­di­date for Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction John “who needs to actu­ally fund edu­ca­tion” Huppenthal was, him­self, schooled when a high school stu­dent con­fronted him about his abysmal record regard­ing fund­ing education.

Like a typ­i­cal GOP tool, when faced with the truth Huppenthal ran off in a huff and declared that he was being “punked” by Democratic dirty tricks. I sup­pose that this just demon­strates that Arizona doesn’t just hate the bean­ers. It hates an edu­cated pop­u­lous too.

Boycott This!

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WARNING: Political Content Ahead!

This is a dif­fi­cult post to write. On the one hand, I vehe­mently oppose Arizona Senate Bill 1070; the so-called “immi­gra­tion law.” The law is noth­ing more than a patently trans­par­ent attempt by the right-wing to whip up sup­port amongst the racists here in order to make gains in this year’s elec­tions. It’s the Southern Strategy for a new cen­tury. On the other hand, I’m bemused by the spate of groups who have taken it upon them­selves to pun­ish Arizona by boy­cotting or can­cel­ing events here. Take, for exam­ple, the recent deci­sion by Hall and Oates to can­cel their Arizona dates as part of a “Sound Strike”.


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American Capitalism 6.0

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Very inter­est­ing arti­cle on Salon​.com by Michael Lind detail­ing the his­tory of American Capitalism and where we go from here.

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ter­ror­ism

ter-ror-ism

–noun

the use of vio­lence and threats to intim­i­date or coerce, esp. for polit­i­cal purposes.

Example

Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to close Gitmo after all.

the use of vio­lence and threats to intim­i­date or coerce, esp. for polit­i­cal purposes.

Bookmark This

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Warning polit­i­cal con­tent ahead:

This is bril­liant. I’m going to book­mark it and send it as a reply every time one of my idiot right-wing “friends” sends me any GOP propaganda.

GOP Pants Crapping

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Gods’ balls I loves me some Rude Pundit.

Brilliant

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…sim­ply bril­liant.

Scott Roeder Found Guilty in 40 Minutes

Good! The jury did the absolutely right thing here. There should be no debate, no delib­er­a­tion, no con­tem­pla­tion. If you kill peo­ple, any peo­ple, just because your sky-daddy tells you to, you are a mur­derer. Now, because I actu­ally have con­sis­tent and log­i­cal moral beliefs, I hope that this cock-sucker is sen­tenced to life in prison. Because state-sanctioned mur­der is just as rep­re­hen­si­ble as sky-daddy sanc­tioned murder.