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Obituary: The Death Of Facts

Shoq — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:39:02 +0000

In an op-ed today, Rex Huppke discusses a problem any thinking person knows about and discusses, nearly as often as they shrug off any notion that there could be a solution for it. A frequent subtext of many things I write about in this blog is that finding answers to problems like these must

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Charged With Womanslaughter!

Shoq — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +0000

See important update at the end.

Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer

That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking

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Ayn Rand: The Wingnut Cult That May Yet Kill Us, If We Don’t Kill It First

Shoq — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:55:35 +0000

It is our eternal shame as country that such intellectually weak sauce as Ayn Rand should attain an almost mythical status among the very people who should revile her the most. But attain it, she has, and it’s got to be pushed back on. Vigorously.

I have shrieked for years that if something wasn’t done to

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The #StopRush Limbaugh Campaign: Current Project Tracker

Shoq — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:12:30 +0000

This page has moved to the new http://sn.im/stoprush wiki site's Project Tracker Page.

Stephen Colbert’s SuperPac attacks Mitt Romney as a Serial Killer

Shoq — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:52:46 +0000

Maybe we should have comedy writers do all our attack ads. The choice of Lithgow for the voice over was pure win.

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Back story from Washington Post/Plum Line

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Mitt Romney: The Lyin’ King… of Bain Capital

Shoq — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:04 +0000

Here's the trailer seen around the world, wherein a Newt Gingrich superpac almost destroys Romney in just under two minutes. The full 30 minute video is said to nail the coffin shut on his candidacy. See it below the trailer.

See: The Full Video "The King of Bain (30 Minutes)

Proof that Mitt Romney will have a major impact on women voters

Shoq — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:22:48 +0000

Ok, that was all in good fun.

But now look at what a REAL vampire Mitt Romney has been for his entire career.

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Melissa Harris-Perry to Host New Show on @MSNBC. Got A Good Name For It?

Shoq — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:53:47 +0000

In cased you missed the news, Melissa Harris-Perry will be the latest addition to the new, post-Olbermann line-up at @MSNBC. Her new two hour weekend show starts February 4th at 10am.

After seeing her tweet this heap of hilarity last night…

I’ve known Melissa since she first came on Twitter. My mother still chuckles that she

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Sometimes You @GottaLaff… Until You Just Can’t Anymore

Shoq — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:31:17 +0000

Goto: Latest Updates and Responses (last in: 11/16/20111 @ 11:04 pm)

Summary

Recently, an attack website appeared, publishing an April email exchange I had with blog-radio host Nicole Sandler. It was a low-rent attempt to smear me, trying to “out” what they think is my real name (which I
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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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