It must be nice to believe that a centrist party is really no different than a far right group of extremists. All that not thinking must save a lot of wear and tear on the ol’ grey matter.
There seems to be this bizarre ennui overtaking the country where people think fighting over the debt ceiling is normal somehow. It’s not. It’s the actions of a group of extremists that are absolutely willing to throw not just the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ezra Klein did an entire segment last night on how Starbucks is feeding the ridiculous “both sides” meme by suggesting Washington “come together:” THANK YOU!
Via Addictinginfo: CEO Howard Schultz is asking Baristas in Starbucks Washington, D.C. locations to write the words“Come Together” on cups through December 28th. Schultz is hoping that this will send a message to lawmakers that the American public is paying attention […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During the run up to the election I posted an article about a picture made by Occupy: I got a fair amount of push back from liberal third party voters (or, as I like to call them: “idiots”) who insisted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Awarded for the following statement via BobCesca.com: “We have two candidates who really aren’t telling us much at all about how they’ll govern. People ask me all the time, Will President Obama govern as liberal or as a centrist? We […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hint: I’m really REALLY not. Via the AP (by way of Bob Cesca) CLINTON: “Their campaign pollster said, ‘We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.’ Now that is true. I couldn’t have said it better […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In case you thought I was insane whenever I harp on the “both sides” meme in which the worst of the left is somehow equivalent to the worst of the right and no matter what the right does, it’s OK […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s so ingrained it simply MUST be mentioned even in articles that are entirely about the right wing’s need to lie and distort to cover their lack of arguments. For instance: Slate’s “The GOP’s War Against Facts: The truth became dangerous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from Addictinginfo.org I used to look forward to reading my weekly issue of Time. It covered news from around the world and did so in a fairly concise and interesting way. But then the 2012 election cycle got under way […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…