Our no-shit-Sherlock dept.:
Today’s Washington Post says the health-insurance companies are emerging as the chief foe of the President’s health-care reform bill.
They’re just noticing or realizing this? A D.C. paper?
Who does the Post think has been funding these drooling idiots at town halls all summer?
This flash just in: The Post realizes the sun comes up in [...]
My latest HuffPost rant is on the health insurance company racketeers. Think RICO laws.
Comic Bill Maher:
“This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he’s repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. One, because it’s the right thing to do and two, because it will throw the conservative base into such a frenzied, pants-shitting panic that they’ll drop all that [...]
He’s one of THE best and smartest overseas correspondents we have. And his report Sunday night, as I point out in this Huffington Post piece, will be highly illuminating.
Humorist Andy Borowitz says it was the “Beer Summit” that really convinced the Norwegians to give Obama the Peace Prize. Something about “the healing power of beer.”
That was one comment after a HuffPost story about crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann and her latest big lie — about governmant sex clinics in schools.
“For the second time in as many weeks, Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R-Minn.) insisted on Thursday that Democratic-conceived health care legislation would set up “school-based health clinics” encouraging promiscuous sexual behavior and [...]
Now the state (see item just below) says it’s going to post details of women’s abortions on a state web site. How charming.
It reminds me of the observation someone once made that in Oklahoma, “culture” exists only in a strictly anthropological sense.
Take it from someone who served time in that pinhead-infested dump. (4 years of [...]
News item: Royal Carribean is set to launch a monster, 5400-passenger cruise ship.
Question: Which Third World country to drain to find enough ignorant illiterates for its crew?
Humble suggestion: Oklahoma.
What did we learn from all the GOP cheering when Chicago (and Obama) lost the Olympics last week? NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman put his finger on it in his latest dead-on column:
“For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.” [...]