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I Refuse To Take Your Tea Party Seriously

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Politics

I am so sick of hearing about this allegedly awesome tea party.  Time Magazine has just published a longish article on the subject of Why The Tea Party Matters, thus demonstrating that a) the general consensus is the tea party does not matter; b) to the extent it may matter, it takes three long internet page-jumps to [...]

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Lying to Make Friends Goes Undercover

December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

Lying To Make Friends ventured out into the world of the Teabaggers today to do some actual reporting.  Well, I’m not sure it qualifies as reporting when you’re too terrified to actually talk to anyone (other than the UNC fan who accosted me because of my Duke sweatshirt), but I did take pictures!

First, a nice [...]

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Republicans Have Issues With Metaphors, Bigger Issues With Reality

November 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports

The Republican health care protest on Capitol Hill yesterday can be summarized as follows:  Democrats= Everything Bad, Republicans=Everything Good. Depending on who at the rally you believe, Obama and his supporters are either Maoists or Nazis. And after being told for 8 years that Muslims (sorry, Islamofascists) are the scariest thing [...]

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