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Piggie of the Week, 2/1/2012: AP Ticker’s Psychedelic Awakening
As you may know, it is the “Year of the Bible” in Pennsylvania, thanks to unanimous support, from republicans and demmocrats alike, for a resolution introduced by Rep. Rick Saccone.
I had a lively phone conversation with Saccone’s office before we produced this one, in which I kept listing all the Bible laws that might be [...]
Read More..>>How to Make Pat Leahy’s Office Yell and Slam Down the Phone.
News item:
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont says he thinks a resignation by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner would be in the best interests of his constituents and the U.S. House…. Leahy also says he supports the House Ethics Committee investigation, but says he would welcome a decision by Weiner to resign voluntarily.
Jesus fucking christ. [...]
Read More..>>Shorter Christine Flowers: “Do the Crime, Do the Time… AND NO JOBS FOR YOU EVER AGAIN.”
And this woman’s a LAWYER???:
O THE City of Brotherly Love has decided to extend that love even further.
Our fair metropolis is going to prevent employers from asking about a person’s criminal history before first interviewing him for a job.
So please line up, rapists, embezzlers and car thieves: Here’s your opportunity!
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When you decide to break the [...]
Well, DO ya?
I heard this song last night in a John Waters movie, and now it’s in my head.
Read More..>>Chumped AGAIN
Not two minutes after posting an article in which Obama signaled a willingness to compromise with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, he gets punked AGAIN:
According to a letter delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this morning, Republicans will block all debate on all legislation until the tax cut impasse is bridged and [...]
Tennessee Fire: We Learn Nothing.
Charlie Poole, “The Baltimore Fire”
As I’ve been reading about the unnecessary loss of a home in Tennessee, and find myself wondering why this conversation is even occurring.
A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.
The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever [...]
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Hamid’s Not Here.
The Afghan National Police, funded on our dime to the tune of $27 billion, doing bong hits before going out on patrol.
We can’t find money to create jobs in America; we can’t figure out how to fix our crumbling infrastructure; we’ve got 10% official unemployment (and probably closer to 20% unofficially) and we’re spending $27 [...]
Read More..>>Taking Leave of their Census
Right wingers are fucking idiots. With Erick Erickson, doubly-so:
This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out [...]
Deep Thought
The well-groomed brokers and traders bent on sticking up for Wall Street gathered on Wednesday in best-behaved form — no chanting, no shrill whistling, pretty much no noise at all — to mark the formation of the financial world’s modest alternative to the Tea Party movement.
Things had gotten entirely too annoying. First it was White [...]
Dalek with a Banjo
I also want to do a Cyberman playing a mandolin or an upright bass.
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