Archive for 'Assholes'
PolitiFact | Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives
PolitiFact rocks! I saw Ann Coulter on The Sean Hannity show (while channel surfing! I admit to liking/watching/even Tivo’ing Geraldo, but that’s the extent of my Fox News viewing) and thought her comments about husbands not beating up their wives nitpicked a serious issue. I wrote to PolitiFact and they did a fantastic job of [...]
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Why the NFL and corporate America reject Limbaugh and Beck | Media Matters for America
“Limbaugh last week learned the overdue lesson that there are real-world consequences for trafficking in hate speech. That there are free-market penalties, including the fact that the NFL decided for itself that it can’t, and won’t, be connected with Limbaugh.
It’s the same lesson Glenn Beck learned this year when he discovered that his niche, on-air [...]
a little pregnant: New rule: Don’t read comments, ever
“Every time someone declares that infertile people should accept their lot in life and adopt, they should be required by law to adopt a child themselves. To put their money where their mouth is. Shouldn’t be a problem, right? I hear it’s a piece of cake.
And every time someone says that infertile [...]
Beck and Limbaugh weigh in on swine flu | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times
“It’s amazing how the same people who think the government is incompetent also think that the swine flu campaign is a vast, secret government conspiracy. You can’t have it both ways.” —Thomas H. Maugh II
via Beck and Limbaugh weigh in on swine flu | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times.
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CIGNA Employee Flips Off Mother Of Dead Girl Denied Transplant
Here’s the real bureaucrats who deny coverage and delay or prevent treatment:
“In 2007, Nataline Sarkisyan was denied a liver transplant by the company, on the grounds that the operation was “too experimental” to be covered. Nine days later it changed its mind, in response to protests outside its office. It was too late: Nataline died [...]
Think Progress » National Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote
DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I’ll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep.
COLMES: We’d be a better country if women didn’t vote?
DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don’t you think so?
COLMES: No, I do not think so [...]
Daily Kos: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning…
Daily Kos: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning….
Michael Moore asks a pertinent question. I’ve often wondered at the audacity with which people cling to a Christian identity while simultaneously screwing others over and/or taking zero responsibility for the welfare of the vulnerable: children, the elderly, the sick: The current health [...]
Roger Ebert’s Journal: The anger of the festering fringe
The only point I disagree with Ebert on is that these fringers don’t trust authority. Not so, or else they would have railed against Bush. I think it’s just the opposite… Read More—they *thrive* on authoritarian rule. What they can’t tolerate is *nurturing* rule that allows for diversity of thought, and tolerates dissent, such as [...]
Senator Helped Mistress’s Husband, Raising Ethics Flags – NYTimes.com
This article is long, but holy crap it’s good!
“WASHINGTON — Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants — seeking work for a close friend and top Washington [...]
Kanye West Crashes VMA Stage During Taylor Swift’s Award Speech – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
Check out how many times Kanye West has displayed boorish behavior in the past. His outburst at the VMA Awards ceremony this year was nothing new:
“During the 2007 VMAs in Las Vegas, West delivered another rant and lost his temper after he was displeased with his performance being set inside a hotel suite rather than [...]
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