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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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3 Corporate Myths that Threaten the Wealth of the Nation

Shoq — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:30:23 +0000

It’s time to restore corporate power to the people by blasting through the myths about how corporations should be run, and for whom.

This article, by an economist who specializes in corporate wealth, with two talented journalists sitting-in, absolutely destroys one of the most enduring and rapacious myths to be found anywhere: that public corporations

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How the War on Women is Unlike the War On Caterpillars

Shoq — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:36:44 +0000

My friend Krystal Ball is getting really aggressive about taking on Republican douchebaggery. She wanted to get this out right away, so she asked me to post it here. Feel free to copy and distribute far and wide (with attribution, please).

See Krystal discuss this in the @MSNBC video below!

How the War on Women

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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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Republicans: A Curse To America, Reality TV To Everyone Else

Shoq — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:03:17 +0000

An old and dear Candian friend of mine wrote this to some of his inner circle. I thought I'd share,

Dear Americans, We have been so entertained over the years by your television broadcasts, but never more so than the past few months with your election primaries. We find ourselves huddled by the TV each night,

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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.

Video: The Revolution In Syria, Up Close And Personal

Shoq — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:37:08 +0000

As we listen to Republicans waste time discussing culture war issues we all thought had been settled long ago, the world moves on around us, mostly out of sight to ordinary Americans.

Some call Occupy Wall Street a revolution. Well, perhaps it may be, and it may be a peaceful variant, but this PBS video is

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Republican’s Forcible Rape of Women (And What You Can Do About It)

Shoq — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:25:56 +0000

I dislike using the “rape metaphor,” because I agree with most feminists who believe that when it is overused, or used inappropriately, it trivializes the seriousness of rape.

In this case, however, I will rely on Webster’s dictionary, which defines these two relevant words thusly:

Rape — any
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The Psychology of Right-Wing Identification Unpacked

Shoq — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:32:12 +0000

Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues.
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