Monthly Archives: August 2012

Response to Rape as Method of Conception

I think we can all agree that there’s been a lot of stupid, offensive things said by the GOP in the last few months. But you’d think that the VP pick for the GOP would know better than to add … Continue reading

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What is this… I don’t even…

Okay, look. I sat down last night ready to watch the last night of the RNC and to make some notes on what Romney spoke about so that I could write about it this morning. There was a plan. It … Continue reading

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Mister Death’s blueeyed boy* knocks ‘em dead

The fact checkers, I mean. So the zombie-eyed granny starver** had his moment to shine and he did not disappoint the GOP faithful last night in Tampa. I guess we find out now whether outright lying and deliberate misleading is … Continue reading

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On the First Night of the Republican National Convention

It’s convention season!  Wiesman was too busy blissfully ignoring the fact that 90%+ of  fantasy football outcomes are determined by blind luck to even watch the speeches last night, so it seems the task of recapping and analyzing what those … Continue reading

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Back from vacation just in time to kill my brain

Hello Disagreeables! I’m back from the family vacation in Florida, getting out of there a few days before Isaac was due to hit right where we were. (Since then it moved West, but for a while it was coming right … Continue reading

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The Romney/Smails education plan

Florida has been great so far, but for some reason my stupid brain (which I hate) has had the exact opposite reaction to travel that everyone else’s brain seems to have. Instead of keeping my sleep schedule on Pacific Time … Continue reading

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Your weekly presidential address for August 18, 2012

Happy Saturday Disagreeables! As you may know, I am vacationing with my family on the Gulf coast of Florida, so I haven’t been posting at all because, well, you know, beach. But I woke up pretty early this morning for … Continue reading

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On Paul Ryan, the Republican VP Nominee

So. Paul Ryan will be Mitt Romney’s Vice-Presidential nominee. What do we make of this? To be honest, I don’t like this move at all, and not just because Paul Ryan is one of those god-awful Republicans who pretends to … Continue reading

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A clarification about Romney’s chances, plus OMGLOLWTF Paul Ryan

So I got two immediate responses to my post on Wednesday about Romney’s All-Lying-All-The-Time strategy, and how it is working to give him a chance to win the election. The first reaction was from a friend who sent me an … Continue reading

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Romney’s strategy is working

Way back in the ancient days of April I wrote about Mitt Romney’s interesting strategy of lying so early and so often that journalists and bloggers will just get tired of writing about how often he lies. Here’s what I … Continue reading

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