Category: Wingnuts
Comment of the Christmas: Ron Paul v cats
December 25th, 2011, No Comments
Amanda Marcotte on why cats are better than Ron Paul (or any Republican candidate really):
Cats get delusional ideas all the time, but what’s nice is that their ambitions are small. Instead of trying to destroy the Fed, they climb trees they can’t get out of. Or, instead of having an irrational fear of black people, [...]
CotD: The wingnut personality
November 25th, 2011, No Comments
Gin & Tacos neatly sums up the existential contradiction inherent in the wingnut personality:
I can’t say it surprised me that people defended the cop. There are always people who will defend the cop. Believe it or not, I was taken aback by just how stupid their arguments were even though such things should not surprise [...]
Why do people keep paying attention to Andrew Breitbart?
April 30th, 2011, 2 Comments
Andrew Breitbart is an internet asshole specialising in lying about political opponents and groups in an attempt to get people fired or the funding taken away from them, using video taken without their consent or knowledge and edited to make the victims look as bad as possible. Previous victims include Shirley Sherrod, where Breitbart took [...]
Joke Line
February 21st, 2011, No Comments
On the Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band: Live 1975-1985 box set, which I got for my birthday in 1986 on cassette (!) and which was my first encounter with Springsteen live, there’s a cover of Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”. In the introduction to this song Bruce mentions that “there’s a book [...]
Politicise this tragedy
January 13th, 2011, No Comments
P. Z. Myers tells us what he really thinks about the Arizona murders and their larger political implications:
What we have here is an attempted assassination of a politician by an insane crank at a political event, in a state where the political discourse has been an unrelenting howl of eliminationist rhetoric and characterization of anyone [...]
White violence is always exceptional
January 12th, 2011, No Comments
Of course the attempted murder of congresswoman Gifford and the very real murder of the six people who did die is not an act of political violence, let alone terrorism white rightwing violence is always exceptional, an unfortunate incident, the act of a mentally ill person with no need to be put into context:
It is [...]
Circlejerk journalism
November 26th, 2010, No Comments
Professional anti-semitism accusers Just Journalism want you to read their report on how the London Review of Books has covered Israel in all its tl;dr glory and come away convinced of how prejudiced the LRB is towards poor old Israel. Yet if this was their goal, the presentation of the report lets them down. The [...]
What do Bristol Palin and Ann Widdecombe have in common?
November 22nd, 2010, No Comments
A lack of dignity and self respect.
Reading Pandagon today I was amused to find out that in both America and Britain have the same problems with untalented rightwing celebrity contestants in their dance shows. Across the Atlantic, they have rightwingers voting for Bristol Palin in Dancing with the Stars to teach uppity liberals a lesson, [...]
Buy into the culture of death
October 28th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday, David Willis, creator of webcomic Shortpacked decided to help out a few pals by promoting their book. He wasn’t the only one, this was all a part of a campaign to for one day make Machine of Death the number one book sold on Amazon.com.
They actually succeeded, in the process bumping Glenn [...]
Doin’ the Rand Paul Curb Stomp
October 27th, 2010, No Comments
I could never watch American History X because some kind soul spoilered the horrific curb stomp scene in it, in which a skinhead forces a victim to lie prone on the ground biting the curb, then kicks him hard in the back of the head. Now, thanks to the Rand Paul campaign, we can finally [...]
