From the monthly archives:

January 2009

The Audacity of Nope – Colbert

January 31, 2009

Colbert’s response to the house Republicans voting against the stimulus package:

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What century do we live in again?

January 30, 2009

A hospital in England is being investigated by a chaplain because people think it’s haunted:
Staff at Derby City General hospital, where a £334m building project is ongoing, have reportedly seen a mysterious apparition in the building.
Managers said they took information from staff seriously and were working with the chaplaincy to ease fears.
But they denied any [...]

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Edward Current on Occam’s Razor

January 30, 2009

Best Lines: “It wasn’t fire and gravity [that caused the WTC towers to collapse].  It was secret ninjas of the shadow government. Ask any Ron Paul supporter.”

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Irony meters explode worldwide

January 30, 2009

I missed this when it first came out, but a top official at the Vatican had this to say about President Obama getting rid of the global gag rule:
The same day, the secular Milan daily Corriere della Sera published an interview with a top Vatican official lashing out at the new U.S. President. Archbishop Rino [...]

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most biased of them all?

January 29, 2009

If you’re one to pay attention to the major news networks, you may have noticed they’ve been covering Obama’s stimulus plan, which the Republicans really, really despise.
Guess which one has been extremely biased towards the Republicans point of view?
If you’re thinking Fox News, you’d be wrong.  CNN takes the title for the most biased with [...]

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Why the Republicans Oppose Obama

January 28, 2009
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So funny I forgot to laugh

January 28, 2009

Number 41 on pro-choice women:

For those of you who can’t watch or don’t want to watch the video here’s the rundown:
Talking head says something about lighter moments, Bill Clinton & cuts to:
Pappy Bush making a “joke” about a run in he had with a pro-choice woman whom he described as the ugliest and angriest woman [...]

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Boy Scouts: Enemy of Equality

January 27, 2009

What else can you say about an organization that fought for the right to discriminate against atheists and gay people?
Oh, I know.
Ignoring the fact that the Boy Scouts (BSA) chose to discriminate ,  is suffering the consequences of it’s choice and could easily get out of it’s self dug hole if it decided to quit [...]

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Darwin the Abolitionist?

January 26, 2009

Did you know that Charles Darwin was an abolitionist as were other of his family members and that it may have motivated his research into natural selection?
Science historians Adrian Desmond and James Moore have compiled compelling new evidence which reveals Darwin was passionately opposed to slavery and this was the moral impetus behind his work.
Private [...]

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Blagojevich: "I Thought About Mandela, Dr. King, And Gandhi"

January 26, 2009

You may have read about Blagojevich comparing himself to the biggest names in Civil and Human Rights, but here’s your chance to actually watch him do it:

Words fail me. Well, no they don’t. It’s absolutely fucking astounding to see a white man say something like that.  Fucking astounding.

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