Twinkies is filing for bankruptcy.
NC Official Resigns In Protest of Marriage Amendment
Harnett County Director of Elections Sherre Toler has forcefully resigned so as to avoid having to facilitate North Carolina’s discriminatory marriage inequality amendment in May. In a letter of protest, Toler compared voting on same-sex marriage to voting on interracial marriage and announced she would be forming a political consulting business to “defeat the effort to write discrimination into the North Carolina … Read More
$50,000 To Victims Of North Carolina Eugenics Program
That's right. North Carolina had an eugenics program which sterilized an estimated 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974, many of them against their will. It was carried out by individuals, nonprofit organizations and the state government that felt that human reproduction should be controlled. Social workers and the like could petition for the court-ordered sterilization of people who had epilepsy, sickness, “feeblemindedness” and other … Read More
Talking A Little Football
I think it's great that God sacrificed his one and only son so that the Denver Broncos could get into the playoffs. I really do. I'm sure that is what Jesus had in mind when they hammed spikes through his palms on the cross: not the famines, war, and disease which, every day, kill the faithful all over the … Read More
GOP Debates and A Look Ahead
I watched the GOP debate on Saturday night, and heard some of their debate held on Sunday morning. And I have to say… even when serious, they are all serious douchebags. It was seriously disturbing, and most distrubing of all was the frontrunner, Mitt Romney. His doubletalk was in full force, especially when it came to the issues of privacy/abortion, … Read More
Patton Oswalt Tweets Downton Abbey
"I never had an Anna to braid MY hair." — Willie Nelson, feeling maudlin on the tour bus. Edith just threw down in a 1916 equivalent of Russ Meyers' SUPERVIXENS. #DowntonPBS Sorry ladies, for the earlier Molesley tweet. And Molesley? You do NOT mack on Bates' shorty. #TeamBates #DowntonPBS "My hobbies are croquet, pressing flowers and failing to say what I mean." — … Read More
Signs of Economic Recovery
The new jobs number for December is out, and while it doesn't show we're on the way to recovery, it shows signs of recovery, and so we have reason to smile. The U.S. economy gained 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast the U.S. would add … Read More
Girls With Guns
Perhaps you've heard this story by now: A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer. Sarah McKinley says that a week earlier a man named Justin Martin dropped by on the day of her husband's funeral, claiming that he … Read More
The Obama Scandal You Haven’t Heard About Yet
The lamestream media is trying its best to keep this hidden from we the people. But it's only a matter of time before this story gets full-blown coverage, and takes down the current administration: Two former participants in the CIA’s Mars visitation program of the early 1980’s have confirmed that U.S. President Barack H. Obama was enrolled in their Mars training class … Read More
Racist Statement of the Day
Newt Gingrich, campaigning in New Hampshire today: "I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps" Right. Because only the black people are on food stamps.
The Obama Campaign Awakens
With the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (after the GOP minority in the Senate essentially filibustered the appointment), it's clear that the Obama campaign is awake and feisty. Mitt Romney responded to the appointment with hyperbole: President Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is perhaps the most powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy in the history of our … Read More
GOP Primaries
By now, everyone knows the results of the Iowa caucus. Romney and Santorum virtually tied (with Romney technically "winning"), Ron Paul a close third, and everybody else sucking. What does it mean? Pretty much like I said. It just means the end, or the beginning of the end, for several candidates. Michele is out…. … and Rick Perry should … Read More
Iowa – Finally!
This is the final snapshot from Pollster (which isn't a poll itself, but a conglomeration of all polls). As you can see, Gingrich's surge is all but over, and Paul's is on the decline. Santorum's surge is well-timed. He could even win. The top tier is Romney, Paul and Santorum. Don't be surprised if Santorum wins. This is an evangelically … Read More
Set Your Clocks
If you have trouble sleeping, or if you are into this sort of thing, try to step outside at 3 am. (You can of course go out earlier and later, but 3 am is peak time): Meteor watchers in North America can expect to see 60 to 200 meteors an hour streak across the sky early Wednesday. NASA says the … Read More