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Posted by commcom on Jun 17, 2012
We have taken this site over and will be happy to continue the fantastic job Michael and Co was doing over nine years. We hope to continue to collect plenty of posting material as a monumental document of the “Zeitgeist” of living. Best...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 23, 2012
Sorry, Santorum-lovers — Religion Dispatch‘s Sarah Posner is right: when it comes to the so-called ‘war on religion’ there’s no ‘there’ there....
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 22, 2012
This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country – the United States...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 21, 2012
A sincere mea culpa for the lack of content over the last several days. Was a holiday weekend in my neck of the tubes, so yrs truly decided to go all-in with some R&R time. Anyway, we are back and, baby, the Republicans are still fucking bat-shit. With the...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 17, 2012
Yep — a picture indeed says a thousand words. With GOP culture-warriors going all-in against contraception (apart from Bayer Aspirin — am I right, ‘gals’?) one is again struck by just how far beyond the contemporary 21st century mainstream the...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 16, 2012
Oh, look — yet another statement regarding Planned Parenthood services that apparently was not intended to be factual. This time it was purportedly Serious GOP Senate vet Orrin Hatch of Utah who decided to give facts the finger and proudly let his bull-feces...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 15, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBOlNxTTcBs#t=08m42s During the Bush administration, Democrats often boasted that — unlike the president and his aides, who were consumed by millenarian dreams of remaking the Middle East in the image of American democracy —...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 14, 2012
Get your wonk on, kiddies — sitting in for our hero is WaPo columnist and supreme numbers nrrrd Ezra Klein, crunching Obama’s proposed 2013 budget with former OMB Director Peter Orszag. WATCH IT: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 13, 2012
Not much to say: Last week, Obama offered a deft political compromise to the resurgent birth control debate (yes, I just wrote that). Despite this, US Catholic officials refused to budge from their hardline, pro-forced pregnancy position (RELIGIOUS LIBERTY!) So why...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 11, 2012
Your AM dose of vicarious embarrassment, courtesy Raw Story: And no, this isn’t the first time Outer Wingnuttia has tried to go where no ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Real American should ever dare venture: The last time conservatives attempted to induce rapping...