“I hate that flag up there….I hate the United States government….They’re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we need!”
“We hate the United States!”
– Larry Kilgore, Talibangelical “patriot” at a Texas secessionist rally
A roundup of recent miscreants that make up the GOP:
I love maps. No one knows how to read the things anymore but my dad taught me and I plan on teaching Gabriel.
Here is a quick primer on borders and how they are created. Hopefully more stuff like this gets published so I can build up a nice collection of knowledge I can share with everyone.
“Fox News host Glenn Beck has lost over 30 sponsors since he called President Obama a racist. And the latest sponsor that he just lost is Clorox bleach. That’s amazing. Even a company whose sole purpose is to make things whiter thinks Glenn Beck has gone too far.”
– Conan O’Brien
My only problem with the picture is that he says he’s anti-racist. Won’t that get him kicked out of the party?
This is almost depressing.
Here is a list of some of the shining lights of the Senate back when Teddy Kennedy joined up to fill in his brother’s term. Granted, some – like Goldwater and Thurmond – aren’t people I’d necessarily admire, but even those I wouldn’t agree with couldn’t be called outright idiots. You could disagree with them on principle and respect said differences.
Face it: McConnell, Cornyn, Grassley, Chambliss, McCain, Inhofe and company couldn’t hold a candle to another of those names – collectively. To be fair, neither could Feinstein, Baucus, Landrieu, Lieberman and their ilk.
Thankfully Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown, and the Udall cousins seem to be making early good starts. But honestly, our current crop is lacking in both gravitas and good ideas.
“I didn’t think this day would come. Squeaky Fromme tried to assassinate President General Ford. She’s been let out of prison. She was paroled. Is she going to get a job? If you think about it, there aren’t many jobs for unstable, gun-toting women, unless she wants to run for governor of Alaska.
-David Letterman
This sucks.
Reading Rainbow is getting cancelled. We have a country addicted to TV and internet, watching reality bullcrap or chatting online in text-speak with little ability to think or write coherently, and the powers that be at PBS – using Bush Administration “logic” no less – decides to cancel the show.
Granted, I was a bit old of a kid already when the show came on the scene, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t interesting, useful, and – more importantly – fun to it’s target audience.
And now it’s gone. I can’t even share it with my kid in a few years.
Thanks for nothing.
An interesting story on how the Galapagos are getting modernized with a variety of green technologies.
Once again, why isn’t the US at the head of the trend here?