WWE Creates Obnoxious Tea Party Characters, Right-Wing Heads Explode
"I'm such an American I piss Budweiser...." -Jack SwaggerThe artificial world of professional rasslin’ (as opposed to the real sport of wrestling), has always employed stock parody characters designed...
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Iron Sheik Unleashes Twitter Tirade on Glenn Beck
As I said in my previous post on this topic, I've never been a fan of professional rasslin' (or even of real wrestling). I've so enjoyed watching Glenn Beck make a paranoid ass of himself over the...
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Michelle Obama Presents Oscar, Right-Wing Heads Explode
On cue, wingnut heads exploded when First Lady Michelle Obama appeared live from the White House to present the Academy Award for Best Picture."FLOTUS INTERRUPTUS," the headline at Breitbart cheekily...
View ArticleWWE Glenn Beck Smackdown: Monday Night Raw! Video
The "culture war" and the debate on immigration played out on stage at WWE's Monday Night Raw tonight as Tea Party-inspired villains Jack Swagger and Zeb Coulter played up anti-immigrant fears, Mexican...
View ArticleThe Right Secedes from American Culture
As my recent posts on the teabag Right's response to current trends in American popular culture attempt to illustrate, right-wing America is increasingly isolating itself in an angry little...
View ArticleWhy Do Rich Conservatives Want to Control our Sex Lives?
For many years social conservatives have sought to limit reproductive rights for women and deny equal rights to sexual minorities in the name of “family values.” Now Republican legislators in Iowa want...
View ArticleNorthern Ohio: Boycott Racist Cossel Farms
Via Little Green Footballs: The White House created the hashtag #askFLOTUS for citizens to tweet their concerns about childhood obesity to the First Lady. Predictably, the hashtag was quickly hijiacked...
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Alan Grayson: Paul Ryan's Vision "a Nightmare for America"
It's wonderful having Alan Grayson back in Congress. Grayson treats Republicans exactly as they deserve to be treated and should be treated. I wish we had many more Alan Graysons in the Democratic...
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Racist "Teen Girls" Twitter Linked to Right-Wing Activist/Rapper David Rufful
It appears that conservative activist David Rufful may have set up a racist Twitter account posing as a pair of twin teenage girls. Rufful is a co-founder and the domain owner of conservative website...
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Scott Terry and Matthew Heimbach, White Nationalists at CPAC
Scott Terry North Carolina resident Scott Terry's pro-slavery and segregationist remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday have been widely reported. At a panel...
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Sarah Palin: The Queen of Stupid at CPAC
Conservatives always get angry when liberals accuse them of being stupid. Then they go and invite the Queen of Stupid -- the very embodiment of all things stupid -- to speak at a high-profile national...
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Poll on Christianity as State Religion: Good News and Bad News
Sarah Palin, Goddess of Theocracy The good news from a new national HuffingtonPost/YouGov poll on Christianity as an official state religion is that at least a plurality of Americans oppose the idea....
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New Poll: Marriage Equality Support State-by-State
The Williams Institute at UCLA has released the results of a new poll on state-by-state support for marriage equality (full results here: PDF). While support for marriage equality has grown in all...
View ArticleRemembering Margaret Thatcher: The British Miners' Strike, 1984-85
Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, has died. If I could give my condolences to the Thatcher family, I would -- It's sad for any family when a loved one passes away.And if I thought the Thatcher family...
View ArticleLikely Snowden Itinerary Moscow-Quito (UPDATE: Plot Thickens! Snowden Not on...
All indications are now that NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden, currently in Moscow, is bound for Quito, Ecuador via Havana, Cuba. There are not many flight options between Moscow and Quito, so this is a...
View ArticleAssange: Snowden is "Safe and Sound"
Following Edward Snowden's mysterious disappearance from Moscow's Sheremetevo airport after failing to show up for his expected flight to Havana, Julian Assange says that Snowden is "safe and sound,"...
View ArticleJoltin' Joe Biden Knocks It Out of the Park in China
I've been away from blogging at Daily Kos for a while due to a job change, moving house, and other issues with expat life here in Shanghai, but had to come back online to express my pride in...
View ArticleNote from China: US Must Act to Protect Journalists (WH Petition)
White House Petition:Demand Fair Media Access and an End to Harassment and Expulsion of American Journalists in ChinaWhen Vice-President Biden was here in China earlier this week, China's harassment...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Speaks Out for Jailed Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo, China Says...
Greetings again from Shanghai, recently the most polluted city in the history of mankind. In case you haven't heard, the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda department announced that heavy smog is...
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