The Reason Stick: The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

The Reason Stick: The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

It's All About The Benjamins

The "MOAR" in this piece is spot on. Some good comments to the post as well.

A snippet:

The culture has moved and unlike social cons, the Rulers will adapt to that — are adapting. Wars will continue as long as they are profitable, the police state will grow, the poor and middle class robbed and bullied, the crown jewel of social security ripe for the picking. The Rulers got to be Rulers by using and discarding things and people as needed. Red State White Trash Blue Balled morons butthurt about sluts’ abortions and homo-marriage were once useful but are now increasingly a liability and will be treated like it, they just don’t know it yet.

Really F*cking Awful Judicial Opinion From a *GASP* Right-Wing Court

This enrages me to the point of incoherence. Luckily, smarter, calmer folk can at least articulate why this is SO FUCKED UP.

The Lunatics Are In The Hall(s of Congress)

An interesting post on how the few remaining "moderate" Republican pundits, David Brooks among them, are trying to wrap their minds around the fact that their party is nucking futs.

This is all Obama’s fault because it makes Republicans “look like whackos willing to endanger the entire global economy.” Brooks displays an almost surreal lack of interest in the underlying reality that Republicans actually are whackos willing to endanger the entire global economy. It is his responsibility to conceal this reality from America.

"Botulism Before Bolshevism"

It has been a while, but here's a delicious little nugget from World O' Crap.

QOTD

" ... rape is brutal, and abhorrent, but sometimes, God takes rape lemons and makes baby lemonade in your uterus."

Source

QOTD

[Original here]

Ah, nice to know this guys give this the consideration it is due:

"Well, there’s probably a lot of — I’m not a woman so I’m thinking, if I’m a woman, why would I want to get — some of it has to do with economics. A lot has to do with economics. I don’t know, I have never — It’s a question I have never thought about." - Ohio state representative Jim Buchy, asked why a woman might want an abortion.

Help A Poor, Wayward Soul Out

I'm certainly no Christian. I will freely admit to being something less than a Biblical "scholar."  In fact, I've read a very tiny percentage of the Good Book. So having fessed up to my ignorance, I was wondering, as I don't have time right now to be reading the Bible, which of the following Republican goals would Jesus support? Because I know a very decent, loving, kind Christian woman who is going to vote Rmoney*/Ryan in a few weeks:

QOTD: 10/3/12

From a comment to this post at LG&M:

As Jesus taught us:
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day.
But give a small fraction of hungry men a useless voucher for half-assed fishing lessons and you can stop pretending like you give a fuck about poor people.

Amen.

Skeptico's Golden Woos #3

Awards for the most outrageous anti-science crap. I find it both amusing and sad that some of the same people who mock conservatives for believing crazy things end up believing crazy things. I'm really concerned about the anti-science position of the Right, but I'm REALLY concerned about the level of belief in anti-science among people who I think ought to know better.

Letting The Players Officiate The Game

(Inspired by The Daily Show)

The fact that we have state-level partisan control over national elections is really stupid. As are Birthers. 

I am aware of the history of Democratic shenanigans and out-right cheating. That history is indefensible. That said, the GOP's efforts to rig elections and disenfranchise voters is a national shame, and should, in a functioning democracy, result in prison terms for those who seek to block the most basic right We The People have. They don't even try to hide it.

It's Like Me Being Afraid Of Lion Attack

I'm simultaneously saddened and amused by people who live in the middle of nowhere who are freaked out by the threat of terrorism. As if Nowhere, Kentucky is a target. And these idiots are all too happy to have us do things that increase the risk or terrorism, which they of course won't come withing a thousand miles of experiencing.

Well, Allow Me To Retort

So, I don't think this person or anyone who knows him reads my blog. If you do, well, at least I kept it off your facebook post.

QOTD 9/5/12

"Mitt Romney’s going to be the president. The president sets the policy. His policy is exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. I’m comfortable with it because it’s a good step in the right direction. I’ll leave it at that.”

 - Rep. Guess Who (R-WI) 

[via You Are Dumb]

Your 2012 Presidential Election Voting Guide

WARNING: VERY, VERY ANGRY AND OFFENSIVE POST FOLLOWS.

Farts Are Funny

Sadly, No! nails it, again. Damn those peeps are funny!

We Have A Winner

Congratulations to the Wanker Of The Decade: Tom "Suck On This" Friedman. The most disturbing thing about American public discourse isn't the loonies that we all love to hate, like Limbaugh, or the politicians peddling their bullshit, like, well, pretty much every politician. The thing that is truly "sign of the Apocalypse" bad is that someone like The Mustache Of Understanding himself is considered a person worth listening to, and given a platform for his idiocy.

Check out the rest of the list here.

Know Why Liberals Think Conservatives Are Racist?

Because only a right-wing site would allow something this grotesque. The link is to Sadly, No!, so don't worry about giving hits to a site that publishes racist screeds.

Fish In A Barrel

To be fair, the argument being destroyed in this piece is so absurd and over-the-top that destroying it is like, well, see the title of this blog. OTOH, so much talk from the right is based on the kinds of absurd lies and misrepresentations that Mosler addresses, I thought it useful to see them refuted in this style.

Very Restrained, Indeed

Incredibly inappropriate, biased, childish behavior from the Federal bench. Not too surprising from wingnuts in the heart of Wingnuttia.