FLASH: Idaho State Sen. tables bill mandating the torture of Idaho youth en masse. No, srsly: Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it
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bastard.logic: IOKIYAR to Infinity.
Ok, so I know IOKIYAR is (and has been for ages) SOP in DC. Still, the manner in which the Village took Rosengate oh-so seriously (and turned it up TO ELEVEN) but is now suddenly backpeddling re: The Nuge’s semi-coherent call for Obama’s assassination (gosh, campaign surrogates sure do say
Continue readingbastard.logic: Today In The Annals of Stupid Backlash Tricks
Flash: Aggrieved Daily Caller Ex-College Republican thumbsucker (is there any other kind?) has a megasad cuz his bike was stolen (if stats hold true, by a blackity-blackblack black kid!), causing him to boldly and ham-fistedly declare: “I am Derbyshire! (Burp.)” Roy Edroso: Judge must be over 30 by now, but
Continue readingbastard.logic: Meet the NEW New Civil Rights Movement (Fox News Stylez)
Hey, remember when Faux News used to merely employ dog whistles in its race-baiting wingnut agit-prop? Good times. Now they rock Les Paul Customs plugged into Marshall stacks that go to eleven (TO ELEVEN): A Fox Orlando affiliate decribed Neo-Nazis as “a civil rights group” on a television broadcast and
Continue readingbastard.logic: Obama’s Citizenship & Race: Separated at Birth?
It never ceases to amaze me how eager some white liberals are to divorce race from political analysis when it comes to Obama. Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler (who seems to have settled nicely into his blogospheric role as … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Two Minutes Hate for Turkey (Hiss! Spit!)
by matttbastard Via John Cole: The Murdoch Street Journal sounds the battle cry as Outer Wingnuttia declares war on the declining Turkish Republic (the biggest BFF breakup since Paris & Nicole deleted each other from their respective Sidekicks): Israeli special forces … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Rand Paul Parties Like It’s 1964
by matttbastard Belated congratulations to newly-minted Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and latest Tea Party ubermensch of the moment Rand ‘Son of Ron’ Paul, for defeating the establishment candidate with Chuck Norris round-house kicks a well-fought insurgent primary campaign. Why, It’s enough to make … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Rima Fakih’s Trojan Bikini
by matttbastard Sometimes it takes well over a thousand words to highlight the absurdity of the viral xenophobia that periodically sweeps over the more Islamophobic denziens of Outer Wingnuttia. This time it would (at first) appear that a mere picture will suffice: Of course, as Echidne … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Last Post I Will Ever Write About Ann Coulter (Except for Cynical SEO Purposes)
by matttbastard (Photo: Rockinon2009, Flickr) Well, well, well (h/t Sabina Becker): First, contrary to what Coulter seems to suggest in a brief phone interview with Macleans.ca scribe Colby Cosh, it was not the police who “shut it down.” I spoke with Ottawa Police Services … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Choosy Moms Choose Teleprompter
by matttbastard Much like wealth redistribution, she was for it before she was against it. (Read Katrina vanden Heuvel on ‘Palinland’, and then try your goddamndest to not give Palin’s latest scorchingly stupid [yet unfortunately all-too-effective] PR offensive any more … Continue reading →
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