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But don’t take my word for it. Check out the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s website RomneyFacts.com.
One of the latest “Viewer Submission’s” is this great flier from 2002.
Supposedly, someone “was handed this flier by a Romney campaign volunteer while walking with his partner during the Pride Festival on Boston Common following the 2002 gay Pride […]

I finished watching The New Asylums last night, and it’s a great little documentary. It seems that our prison mental care facilities are far beyond what is available in the “real world” to these men when they are released, and since many of them become homeless and run out of meds, their mental illnesses […]

“Blundering US leader” is right:
South Africa has been forced to prove Nelson Mandella is still alive after gaffe-prone George Bush made it sound like the former president had died.
The blundering US leader created the confusion when he said “all the Mandelas are dead” when talking about politicians in Iraq.
But the Nelson Mandela Foundation […]

Bush continues to be “optimistic” about the economy and in this he is getting very short on company.
In his new book Alan Greenspan skewers “Bush and congressional Republicans for what he said was reckless spending and a politically driven economic agenda.”
And as Greenspan and others predict a recession, Bush continues to claim “the fundamentals of […]

I’m not sure how I missed this, but yesterday was the 30th anniversary of perhaps one of the most iconic moments in television history: when The Fonz “Jumped the Shark”. If you’ve never seen the television moment that created the “jumped the shark” meme, here it is.

Perhaps now you understand why this moment symbolizes […]

Yesterday I watched part of a PBS documentary called “Frontline: The New Asylums“, which demonstrates that the prison system has become the dumping ground for the mentally ill. 16% of all inmates in Ohio have been diagnosed with a mental illness. It’s really quite remarkable. Ohio, thankfully, does much better than most […]

People incensed that Ahmadinejad wants to visit ‘Ground Zero’ (purportedly to ‘pay his respects’) are being a bunch of ninnies. Personally, I agree with Josh Marshall’s take.
how brittle do we think our national reputation is that it’s going to be damaged by Ahmadinejad going down to Ground Zero and at worst spouting off about […]

What a friggin’ waste of time. Senate Republicans (and possibly House Republicans as well, if Mr. Boehner gets his way) would rather waste everyone’s time passing resolutions condemning MoveOn rather than discussing stuff that’s, you know, important.
The US Senate has voted to condemn an advertisement attacking the country’s top commander in Iraq as […]

Rod Parsley has a new fund raising campaign focused on creating fear and spreading lies about new, proposed federal hate crimes legislation. He claims that, because it will grant protections against crimes based on gender identity and sexual orientation, ultra-conservative preachers won’t be free to spread their hate-filled message of homophobia.
Parsley, of course, […]

I posted over at PO today in celebration of one year of hard work countering right-wing misinformation. Go check it. I can’t wait for terrible twos!

That Jerid is a pretty smart kid. He pointed out the other day that Bill Todd’s school funding lawsuit was one big publicity stunt. And now, Buckeye Institute is playing right along, calling the suit a “21st Century Brown vs. Board of Education”.

Of course, “playing along” probably isn’t a strong enough phrase, since […]

The Senate was unable to muster enough votes to overcome a filibuster. A sham “non-binding” GOP bill was also shot down.

Anarchy in the UK:
The UK’s big four supermarkets and dairies colluded to keep the price of dairy goods artificially high, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
The price-fixing deal led to consumers overpaying for milk, cheese and butter by an estimated £270m, the OFT said.
Wow. That’s a lot of grift for dairy. […]

It’s Kanye West’s video for “Stronger”. A pretty kicking mix of samples from French house artists Daft Punk, Kanye, and video homage to the classic anime film (and manga) Akira.

I love Daft Punk. In case you somehow managed to sleep thru the late 90s and missed them at their peak here in the […]