I began 2016, the year in which I turned 70 years old, so damn angry. More than sufficient reasons exist for all that anger. I, like many of you, am unwillingly steeped […]
2016: so far a bleak year, fettered by anger
Fred Phelps is dead: the LGBT community owes him a debt of gratitude
An evil man has departed the Earth, but not before inadvertently making it a better place. Without Contraries is no progression. – Blake Fred Phelps, founder of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, is […]
Limbaugh brays on: louder, emptier, closer to the end
Limbaugh is slowly dying, like the dinosaur that he is, bit by bit. As sponsors escape, he doesn’t need any help from the FCC. Thus, I disagree with calls that he be fired. Just watching him losing advertisers is a joy in itself – the beginning of the end.
Limbaugh atones for attacking young woman by attacking another young woman
Seriously? It seems that after several days of mounting public pressure, Rush Limbaugh has finally cracked. How else could you explain his attempt to move beyond this whole “hating on young women” […]
As boycott pressure mounts on Limbaugh, two words come to mind: hoist, petard
I don’t know when the very first boycott of a product or company happened, but I suspect the tactic has been around in some form or another for a long time. I […]
"Apology" to Sandra Fluke shows libel threat and advertiser defections have Team Limbaugh running scared; what to do next
Rush Limbaugh has apologized to Sandra Fluke. Sort of – he uses the opportunity to reiterate everything except the actual insults. If he were concerned about sincerity, he wouldn’t have buried the […]
The young Republicans (two from Szep)
by Paul Szep
Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association: diabolical voices of un-Christian, un-American hate
Fischer: ‘Allah is a demon god of darkness, violence, death, and destruction’ Right Wing Watch December 23, 2011 Considering Bryan Fischer makes so much hateful noise, is it any wonder that it’s […]
Nota Bene #123: Behold the Chickenosaurus
“There ought to be limits to freedom.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #117: Wake Up!
“Hollywood is so crooked that Mafia gangsters are entirely outclassed and don’t stand a chance. People in Hollywood are smarter. They have more sophisticated knowledge of money and deals and how to […]
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