If my memory is correct, this is the first time a newspaper has openly called out and detailed the right wing religious grift machine: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has chosen to prolong her moment in the limelight by defying a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to legally qualifed people who apply for …
Grifters Gonna Grift
Dumb question for Maine
I’ve been enjoying the clusterfuck that is Maine’s governing system from a time zone away, but I just had a sneaky bastard idea to promote good public policy. First via Wonkette some background on the situation: Wacky ol’ rubber bag of infected pus and Maine Gov. Paul LePage is one comical fella. Last week, we …
Prepare the Ice Floes
The New York Times reports on the next great cost saving measure in the US: Medicare, the federal program that insures 55 million older and disabled Americans, announced plans on Wednesday to reimburse doctors for conversations with patients about whether and how they would want to be kept alive if they became too sick to …
Open Thread: Distinguishing GOP “Serious Candidates” from “Brand Promoters” No Easy Task
Shitbirds of a feather. pic.twitter.com/jKZc4MbC4n — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 7, 2015 Jeb Lund, in the Guardian, on “GOP orthodoxy in a cruder shell“: Calling Donald Trump an idiot is not one of those things you will find on a list of the world’s most arduous tasks. But if you looked to the current field …
Open Thread: Scrabbling Frantically for Relevancy
Who could have predicted years ago that, under Obama, America would turn against Israel and align itself with Iran and Cuba? Actually, I did — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 1, 2015 Wonkette highlights another convicted felon looking for a new grift at the Wingnut Welfare freak show: “This is coming. And it’s coming like a …
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Open Thread: The “Christians” Threaten to Go Galt
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . Snarkmaster Roy Edroso rises to the challenge of the young Talibangelicals bemoaning the vile encroachment of human dignity upon their feudalist phantasies: How goes the rear-guard, dead-ender attack on gay marriage? Hilariously! Have a look at this symposium at Opus Dei strokebook First Things featuring the Douthats of Tomorrow. Say …
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Late Night Off-Peak Open Thread: ‘Big Chicken’ Christie Jumps on the Klown Kar
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Jeb Lund, at the Guardian: Chris Christie is now officially running for president – and what makes Chris Christie special is that he is running because he is running, and because what are you going to do about it? The animating purpose of Christie’s entire career is one regionally-accented hostile tautology: …
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