The more the polls show Republicans getting a free bikini wax this November, the more conservative pundits feel obligated to lecture the rest of us. Jonah Goldberg thinks Obama’s getting off easy. Over the course of a column defending his party’s right to tell lies about their opponents, Goldberg insults or defames:
- Harry Truman
- John Lewis
- Madonna (very popular with knuckledraggers this week!)
- Philadelphia Daily News
- Democrats in general
An entire column premised on ignoring the eliminationist rhetoric from his own side. Wanting to kill someone is a little bit more serious that swiftboating them. The difference? The difference is as huge as my snipping at Goldberg in my blog, as opposed to running daily posts about how great it would be if someone drove to L.A. and shot that ugly Jew bastard fuck dead dead dead.
Eventually I hope Goldberg Googles his way to this page, reads that italicized type and gets the point. Or, more likely, uses this as an example of how the left is as bad as the right.
On a related note, Crooks and Liars has footage of Howie the Whore being Howie the Whore. and John Cole catches Kathryn Jean Lopez being asinine.
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Nebraska’s safe haven law has just picked up the option on an 18th child.
Nebraska’s safe-haven law is unlike similar laws in that it allows anyone, not just a parent, to drop off a child, of any age, at any state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution for abandonment. The law doesn’t absolve anyone of charges such as abuse or neglect.
In Nebraska, several of the parents or guardians who have left children cited behavioral problems. An out-of-work widower who left nine of his 10 children said he simply felt overwhelmed by his responsibilities. That man, Gary Staton, has asked a judge to allow him to visit his children.
State officials have stressed that the safe-haven law should be used only for children in immediate danger. Some worry the broadly written law could make the state a dumping ground for unwanted children.
It should be easier for parents to give up their children. The fact that you can reproduce doesn’t mean you should, and in bad economic times a lot of families just don’t have the resources to get by.
You might ask, wouldn’t it be easier to help out those families? You might think so, but only if you’ve been stuck on a desert island for the last eight years. Corporations shed excess workers like airlines lose baggage, so why not let parents downsize their families when the going gets rough.
Besides, the orphanarium’s got a big plasma TV, three squares a day, and other kids to play with. Parents? Who needs parents? Especially losers who can’t earn enough money to keep their kids.
I’m being sarcastic here, I think.
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If you worry about kids for real, consider dropping some change in PEM/Corporate Babysitter’s cup.
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Whoopsie: Democrat caught playing by Republican rules.
Naughty, naughty. Ditto for Gov. Sarah, who ripped on her followers after mistaking them for hecklers.
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Another reminder from TechDirt that floundering newspapers are still hiding their most valuable assets: their archives.
As bottom line-minded corporate owners continue to starve their news subsidiaries, those archives become even more valuable, not just as old news but as reminders of what American journalism used to be like before MBAs replaced the J-school grads.
Just think of how hard local bloggers would be working the Strib and PiPress vaults for old stories that speak to this election cycle. Or how much better student history projects would be if they could search the archives for past news about their schools.
No one pays to see those stories now, but advertisers would pay plenty to put ads on those archival pages. Not exploiting an existing resource is, in my book, about as dumb as it gets.
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Norway, fed up with copyright cases clogging their courts, is expediting the legal whining by creating a special board just to hear copyright complaints.
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John Cole rubs some more salt into Powerline’s festering wounds.
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Four Gitmo prosecutors have resigned in protest now, but still Bush keeps dragging our honor through the mud with his kangaroo court proceedings.
Would it be too much to ask that President Obama recognizes these four men with some high honor or award?
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Some days I wonder if wingnuts even bother to read polls anymore. Seems like they could just stick their head out the window, count the neighbors’ yard signs, and figure it out from there.
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A lot of sameness to lefty blog posts lately. Here’s but one of many posts pointing out that John McCain accepted ACORN’s support long before he turned on them.
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Weekly World News has been sold to Bat Boy.
For real.
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Like Schwarzenegger’s girly men, we need a label for women who throw other women under the bus.
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As long as Weekly World News doesn’t drop it opinion columnist, I am okay with the sale. I haven’t read Ed Anger in quite some time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Anger
Must be the overdose of even more ridiculousness on the web. I admit I have bought a few copies of WWN way back when, just for the outrageous amusement. One of my favorites was “Broccoli Bruce”, whom I assume was an effeminate male, if not outright gay. Coincided nicely with Bush Sr dislike of the vegetable.
I had a subscription to the Weekly World News for several years. I started with an issue detailing the “Hell Planet”, where a radio telescope had picked of the wailing and lamenting of the damned.
I still have an old collected works of Ed Anger. It makes for great reading. It’s really weird because the whole has become so fucked that some of Ed’s later columns started making sense.
Bored.
Video Googled “Palin”
Overwhelming response was all negative stuff on Sarah.
Time to call the election for Obama.
Time for a strategy to sink the current Republican party into the farthest depths