Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:38:26 am
When Rand Paul says, "No, the GOP is absolutely not doing that thing you think they're doing," be assured that yes, they very definitely are doing that thing. Case in point: No, the GOP Is Not at War With Science - Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Lamar Smith. Sen. Paul and ...

Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:13:48 pm
And just like that, Mitt Romney's preliminary feelers about running for President in 2016 have turned into an "almost certain" 2016 bid. Mitt Romney is moving quickly to reassemble his national political network, calling former aides, donors and other supporters over the weekend and on Monday in a concerted push ...

Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:06:34 pm
YouTube We first saw this fantastic group from Alabama with their incredible singer on the 2014 Americana Music Honors & Awards show, and now here's a Tiny Desk Concert right in time for a Sunday night music thread. Close your eyes and listen, and you might imagine someone who looks a ...

Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:47:47 pm
Image via Shutterstock OregonLive.com is reporting tonight that the Liberian woman hospitalized for observation on Friday with a self-monitored fever does not have Ebola. A Liberian woman who was hospitalized Friday in Milwaukie over fears she has Ebola does not have the disease, health care officials said on Sunday. "Based on test ...

Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:58:14 pm
Weapons safety rule #2: "Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot." http://t.co/tAtnqaOvW5 pic.twitter.com/Y3mdBsuiWZ — Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) August 12, 2014 You may remember this LGF post from last August, when Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in street protests after the shooting death of Michael Brown: FAA Shuts Down ...

Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:42:23 am
Here's today's example of right wing humor, which doesn't really resemble the thing most of us know as "humor." After the news broke about Dr. Craig Spencer testing positive for Ebola in New York City last night, Ted Cruz's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff Nick Muzin took to ...

Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:33:41 pm
Here's one of those moments for which we live, as crazy uncle Ron Paul says his crazy son Rand's idea of a ban on travel to and from West Africa is "politically motivated." Instant classic. Ron Paul on Monday said that calls for a ban on travel from West African ...

Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:29:56 pm
I'm resigned to the mainstream media promoting crazy fringe libertarians and refusing to call them out on their craziness, but this Washington Post article on Rand Paul's trip to Ferguson, Missouri, to cash in on the situation by appearing to "reach out" to the black community, is our facepalm of ...

Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:26:09 pm
The scene in St. Louis pic.twitter.com/c1cf2NlhY8 — Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) October 10, 2014 #shawshooting Cops wielding cans of pepper spray order protesters off the street. Cops wrestle man to ground. pic.twitter.com/sCv23xQSxx — Paul Hampel (@phampel) October 10, 2014

Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:32:18 pm
YouTube Joe Satriani will be featured on a new episode of NPT's music series Front And Center! This hour long special was filmed recently in New York and will begin airing on October 21st. Check local listings & FrontAndCenter.com for air times The new season also includes Counting Crows, Dierks Bentley, ...

Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:06:22 pm
Yesterday, I posted about how Drudge was spreading all kinds of misinformation about the current outbreak of enterovirus D68. That misinformation was courtesy of the AAPS, which is a crank organization with ties to both Rand and Ron Paul, filled with racists and xenophobes. Well, the AAPS is back in the ...

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:36:43 pm
You may have seen right wing sites trumpeting a report on last night's NBC Nightly News in which Brian Williams said that federal charges against New Jersey governor Chris Christie in the "Bridgegate" scandal had been ruled out. This report led to an orgy of football-spiking, all over the right ...

Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:21:23 am
Matt Drudge's website is nothing if not consistent; they tweet an endless stream of inflammatory and eye-catching claims/statements. A couple of these tweets caught my eye: Doctor: Feds 'Tight-Lipped,' May be From Illegals... http://t.co/L4nfmYYKpQ — DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 17, 2014 Mystery illness spreads to Virginia... http://t.co/5mtQZ4TbOf — DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 17, ...

Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:35:52 pm
Video The 13th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. ET, live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. You can watch the entire event, including more than 20 performances by some of Americana's biggest acts, live on NPR.org and ...

Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:07:29 am
This is wrong and just pisses me off, I can't watch it again. YouTube St. Paul Cops Allegedly Taser and Arrest Black Male for Sitting in Public Space | Twin Cities Daily Planet A video showing the arrest of a black St. Paul man for allegedly sitting in a public space and ...

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:03:52 pm
Weapons safety rule #2: "Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot." http://t.co/tAtnqaOvW5 pic.twitter.com/Y3mdBsuiWZ — Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) August 12, 2014

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:05:47 am
Today Breitbart "News" is continuing the incitement of race-hatred in their white right wing audience, with yet another evil-minded post by Ben Shapiro titled: 5 RACE RIOTS IN OBAMA'S POST-RACIAL AMERICA. With a grotesque title like that, Shapiro is obviously appealing to the lowest common denominator knuckle-draggers, and you can probably ...

Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:16:20 am
Reason magazine's editor Nick Gillespie has an article up wherein he addresses that 1976 "special edition" featuring Holocaust deniers and contributors to neo-Nazi magazines. Let's see how he acquits the publication: If you want a preview of just how lame ideological mud-slinging is going to get [...] take a look ...

Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:04:44 am
After being exposed as a serial plagiarist, Buzzfeed writer Benny Johnson has been fired; here's the post by Ben Smith: Editor's Note: An Apology to Our Readers. Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing out instances in which a BuzzFeed writer, Benny Johnson, had lifted phrases and sentences from other ...

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:27:30 am
Worried that IT experts seem to typically vote Democratic, the Koch Brothers have spearheaded hackathons to lure techies into the conservatarian sphere. The gathering was the first inaugural conference put on by Lincoln Labs, a year-old club of politically-minded technologists started by three millennials with backgrounds in Republican politics: Garrett ...

Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:56:30 pm
As a native Kentuckian who has also lived in several states in this wonderful country and now happily resides in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky, I want to say right off the bat that I love Kentucky. However, I do despair over the intellectual capacity of our elected officials. While Kentucky ...

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:12:02 am
Vimeo Not really safe for work, but pretty gol-darned hilarious. Just another period western meta comedy short film. Featuring the mellifluous voice of Nick Offerman. I hope you enjoy it! WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - LA Film Fest Best of the Fest Selection - Palm Springs Short Fest Official Selection - Cleveland International ...

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:22:24 pm
YouTube Last night's Bill Maher show featured a panel with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, who got into a very heated exchange beginning when Greenwald asserted that US troops in Iraq should be considered terrorists. It turned into a full-blown yelling match ...

Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:08:10 am
The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic is covering the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference, one of the highest profile religious right events of the year featuring the likes of Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie as speakers, and snapped this photo in the mens' restroom outside the ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:41:01 am
The latest public figure who was utterly horribly wrong in almost everything he did in Iraq but now wants us to send more US soldiers to die for a neocon pipe dream is L. Paul Bremer, the guy who dissolved the Iraqi Army and very possibly engendered the situation Iraq ...