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“Harshness For The Sake Of Harshness”

January 15th, 2011 · No Comments · AS, Labor, Politics

Senator Mike Lee from (you guessed it) Utah recently posted a video of himself defending child labor, or something to that effect. I honestly couldn’t tell you his exact argument, becasue the video is sooo boring. He should really take some YouTube decorating tips from yon Sarah “blood libel” Palin. Fireplace? American flag? I’m interested! Looks like [...]

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More Sadness From Arizona

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics

I’m shocked to read about the shooting in Arizona today, in which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and is now in critical condition, and federal judge John M. Roll was killed, among others.  The suspicions that the shooter may have had political motives — including anger over immigration policy — are incredibly [...]

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What He Said

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports

From the very first words I had published on the Internet, I’ve tried to come up with clever ways to tie the world of sports to more important issues.  Never have I been as successful as Bill Maher in this clip: -AR Update:  The HBO police have taken the video off the web, but here’s [...]

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I Like Ours Better

April 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

Slate’s John Dickerson argues that Sarah Palin, the half-term governor of a sparsely populated state who doesn’t read newspapers and makes stuff up to cover for her gross lack of knowledge, is the Right’s answer to Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize winning two-term vice-president of the United States who tends to be ahead of [...]

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Imagining Scenarios In Which I Support Sarah Palin or John Edwards (again) for President

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Often times, when reading poll numbers or looking at election results, I have to face the fact that my obsession with politics and rabid partisanship makes me different from most Americans.  Particularly difficult to accept, though, is my recent realization that I’m more insanely partisan than the modern Republican Party. DailyKos recently commissioned a poll [...]

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving?

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Let the Sarah Palin media blitz begin!  I have no interest in watching any of the many, many interviews Palin will be doing in the coming weeks.  We pretty much know how every public appearance will go:  she’ll sputter nonsense, using 10 words when she needs 4, and string together empty platitudes that come close [...]

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The Real America Strikes Back!

August 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

This column does a great job getting to the root of the conservative town hall madness and exposing at is as another symptom, along with the birther movement and the tea parties, of the right’s inability to accept that Barack Hussein Obama is president of the United States. All of this is an outgrowth of [...]

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Tying the Pirates to Electoral Politics

July 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics, Sports

As a lifelong Pirates fan, I think I kind of understand what it must be like to be a post-George Bush Republican. While the Republicans four year electoral losing streak pales in comparison to the 16 (soon to be 17) straight losing seasons of the Pirates, there are similarities: incompetent leadership, the loss of casual [...]

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More Palin!

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Ross Douthat had a column in the NY Times this morning bemoaning the sexism and elitism motivating the media’s treatment of Sarah Palin. As Adam Serwer points out, this follows a pattern of conservatives suddenly caring about issues like sexism whenever a Republican is affected. (Bonus points for the Futurama reference). This discussion demonstrates part [...]

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No More Politics as Usual

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics

Before I got bored and couldn’t listen to any more of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, I’m pretty sure she said the phrase “no more politics as usual” at least half a dozen times. The only thing that kept me interested for a few minutes was trying to figure out what Alaskan animal was making the [...]

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