Pusillanimous: what a truly elegant way to say “gutless”. I really love that word; sadly, opportunities to use it are few and far between, since “gutless” or “spineless” or “cowardly” are usually sufficient. But not this week. Various high-profile Republicans were recently asked if they’d repudiate the brainlessly misogynist trash-talk
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Shakedown!
I guess Karen Handel has never heard about the First Rule of Holes — when you’re in one, stop digging: Karen Handel, the former senior vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, accused Planned Parenthood of extortion during an appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Continue readingRush Limbaugh: Human or DNA Experiment?
Who knows? Whatever his DNA composition might be, around here Rush Limbaugh is Swine of the Week in Perpetuity — meaning that when I pronounce someone SOTW, it’s an unfinished sentence the rest of which is “in addition to Rush Limbaugh”. And this past week was no different. The GOP’s
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Oh yeah — using social media to draw attention to information already in the Public Domain as a response to proposed fascist legislation is EXACTLY like rendering meaningless the votes of swaths of the Canadian electorate and making a mockery of our very democracy. Sometimes our media needs to be
Continue readingThe Ghost of Black Friday Past
Riot gear: what the well-dressed shopper is wearing in Florida these days, courtesy of newly-minted blogger “Left Over”, who also happens to be a long-lost, recently re-discovered meat space friend of mine. (I love the Internets.) You know her as commenter “cityprole” — hop on over and welcome her to
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Canada’s Back! Are we gettin shit done or what?
Continue readingMan arrested & strip-searched after daughter draws picture of daddy watering plants, teacher suspects grow-op
Okay, that didn’t really happen and was in fact pulled right out of my arse. But it’s only a matter of time: A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter
Continue readingThe Turning of the C-30 Screw continues
Although the government appears to be backing off from introducing their intrusive new internet snooping/spying/sticking-their-noses-in-the-citizens’-private-business bill, today Anonymous once again takes to YouTube to speak for angry Canuckistanian web surfers and issue a warning… 7 Days, Mr. Toews!: I wonder how long it will be before Toews or one of
Continue readingVaginia, I mean Virginia, backs off on State-Enforced Vaginal Probe Law
Apparently a law mandating non-consensual (ie. forced) vaginal probing isn’t something a Vice Presidential hopeful wants on his resume. Accordingly, Virginia Governor and Vice Presidential wet-dreamer Bob McDonnell has backed away from the bill that’s come to be known by names like “The State-Enforced Transvaginal Probe Law”. Because, well dangit,
Continue readingRon Paul, Contraceptives & Abortion
Of the four(4) GOP primary candidates still standing, the only one I can even come close to listening to with a serious ear is libertarian Ron Paul. Now before everyone jumps all over the comments section with the “Ron Paul is no friend of progressives!!” stuff, yeah yeah, I get
Continue readingAnonymous not letting up on Toews
Vic Toews, you were warned!: (Text pasted here.) Oh wow. I didn’t know the mistress was snorting and scarfing at the Public Trough right alongside her Viagra-starched paramour, but am I surprised? Are you? The Toewster’s squeals and bleats about McCarthyesque investigations notwithstanding, my sense is that Anonymous might be
Continue readingToews can dish it out, can’t take it
Let the probery begin: The RCMP is investigating “serious threats” allegedly made against Public Safety Minister Vic Toews as opposition to a contentious Internet surveillance law grows. In an open letter to his Manitoba constituents distributed over the weekend, Toews said the threats have been “referred to the police for
Continue readingFootball Season is Over
Devotees of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson‘s manic genius are all too aware of the title’s significance as one of the final banal observations of a shooting star burning out and falling to earth. Here’s an excerpt from that 2003 interview with Tim Russert: Now go read RossK’s dedication… with the
Continue readingPlay ‘em off, Keyboard Vic
No, I haven’t seen that one yet, but the VicToews meme has been blossoming in ways you’ve probably already seen but I can’t resist posting anyway because they’re so fucking GREAT: And of course, Hitler reacted to the sleazy Vic Toews scandal: Gentlemen, start your Photoshops! (Ceiling Vic by Robert McClelland)
Continue readingToews makes the Big Time
Oh-oh… Vic Toews has drawn the ire of Anonymous. This is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Who’s sorry now, Vic?
Continue readingVic Toews wants a Probe
And I’ve got just the cattle prod for the job. No seriously… after beclowning himself to the point where he’s become an Internet Meme, (no, really) he’s calling for A Probe: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is calling for an investigation into the source of a Twitter account that is being used
Continue readingRossK nails it
…on the question of how we should be dealing with Harper and his caucus on the question of state intervention into the most private personal aspects of womens’ lives. Our CPC Government has taken to playfully allowing certain MPs to mouth off about their desire to roll back womens’ rights
Continue readingWinning! (Part Duh)
What took you so long, shithead?: A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for
Continue readingLast but not Least, the Predictable Whinefest
Fetus fetishists whining and crying victim because they didn’t get their way with Komen/Planned Parenthood? Now whoever coulda seen that coming!? K-Lo breaks out the violins on Twitter: But not before the deranged SUZANNE had added her dulcet tones to the rising tide of whine: Oh well, I suppose it
Continue readingThe Komen Decision that was Totally Not Political
…but was secretly nurtured and guided by former Bush Press Secretary and Planned Parenthood critic Ari Fleisher: Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, secretly helped guide Komen Foundation’s disastrous strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of “Senior Vice
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