Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:16:06 am
Megyn Kelly doesn't recall the constant Hitler-Nazi-Third Reich references on Fox News, so Jon Stewart kindly refreshes her memory. [Video]

Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:45:13 pm
A classic example of right wing cognitive dissonance, from the site of raving freakazoid nut sandwich Glenn Beck: Credit: StopBeck. And no, this is not a Photoshop. Here's the background image at Glenn Beck's site. It's a random image, chosen from about 20 different backgrounds. Notice that he has his finger on the ...

Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:27:42 am
The Internet black hole of far right theocratic craziness known as World Net Daily is celebrating today because religious fundamentalists are abandoning CPAC out of fear of a gay planet. Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to ...

Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:44:30 am
American Family Association lunatic Bryan Fischer has really been cranking out the crazy since the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell." His latest deranged rant is evidence that his fear and hatred of gay people has driven Fischer completely off his rocker: Bryan Fischer: Whoops: homosexuals lose “get out of ...

Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:45:54 pm
One of my real musical heroes has passed away. There was never anything like Captain Beefheart's fractured, joyously surreal, deeply weird musical vision, and he'll be missed: Captain Beefheart Dead At Age 69. Don Van Vliet, who became a rock legend as Captain Beefheart, died today from complications from multiple ...

Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:36:34 am
The Gawker network security breach is shaping up to be quite serious. PBS has a report with more details on the kind of information that was exposed when hackers (possibly from 4chan) broke into the Gawker database: Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies. Gawker Media, one ...

Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:32:30 pm
As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War rolls around, Southern neo-Confederate groups are pushing harder than ever to rewrite American history, making it all about an unjust invasion and states' rights -- and sweeping that bothersome slavery stuff under the rug. ... As the 150th anniversary of the four-year ...

Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:30:59 am
Arkansas school board member Clint McCance is a typical representative of the modern right wing, if slightly more outspoken than most: Arkansas School Board Member Says Gay Students Should 'Get AIDS and Die'. McCance took to his Facebook page last week, to blast what became known as Spirit Day, a ...

Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:05:36 pm
Today I have a few things to do in the analog universe, so here's a video to keep you from getting into too much trouble... [Video]

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29:39 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has an interesting post featuring Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA operative and expert on militant Islam. Goldberg asked Gerecht for his reaction to some of the outrageously ignorant and bigoted comments from Pamela Geller quoted in the New York Times, and Gerecht's response is a must-read: Reuel Gerecht ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:40:24 pm
As Pamela Geller gloatingly prepares to host her hate rally against the Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero, shrieking that it defiles the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, here's a must-read article at the New York Times on a piece of history it might be ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:30:47 am
A group of 9/11 family members has officially asked Pamela Geller not to stage her bigoted hate rally on September 11: 9/11 Families Ask Ground Zero Mosque Protesters to Stop Rallies on Anniversary. LOWER MANHATTAN — The ninth anniversary of 9/11 is the wrong day to hold rallies about the ...

Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:59:09 pm
Adam Serwer talked to Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman about the planned September 11 protest against the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan; we criticized Foxman for his earlier statements, but on the issue of Pamela Geller and her allies (such as Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders) he seems to ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:59:32 pm
Here's the mass email sent out today by David Horowitz, begging the right wing base for more money for Robert Spencer's anti-Muslim effort: Dear DHFC Supporter, I am sure you've heard about the mosque they want to build on the sacred soil of Ground Zero in New York City. A ...

Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:50:41 pm
Since white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain has been tweeting all day about how little traffic he received from my link to his hate hole (which makes sense, because decent people don’t want to visit racist websites), I thought I’d check to see if he had a Sitemeter account, and ...

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:33:46 am
On the Joe Scarborough show, Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor feebly tries to defend one of the most cynical GOP political calculations in recent memory: leaving Rep. Joe Barton at the head of the Energy and Commerce Committee, even after Barton demonstrated beyond any doubt that he’s in the pocket ...

Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:23:27 pm
She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn’t hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:40:51 am
One of the most astounding self-inflicted political wounds in recent memory has been the insane criticism of the $20 billion escrow fund set up by President Obama as a “shakedown.” And now another high profile wingnut pundit, Mark Levin, is attacking Bill O’Reilly for trying to bring some sense into ...

Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:19:56 am
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is apparently trying to quietly toss the online records of her extreme nativist and John Birch Society-inspired positions down the memory hole. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:13:19 am
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is running for the US Senate as a Democrat, even though he has a very poor long term memory. His memory retention skills are so bad that he actually forgot he never served in Vietnam. “We have learned something important since the days that I served ...

Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:48:41 pm
TampaBay.com’s All Eyes blog has striking photos from a National Science Foundation expedition to Antarctica. The group is researching the disappearance of a key part of the food chain, the Antarctic silverfish, from areas in which they used to be plentiful (possibly due to global warming): Detectives in Antarctica: Croker ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:35:27 am
The iPhone OS 4 event held this morning had some fantastic news for iPhone owners (which includes me), with a host of great new features including the big one: true multitasking. Apps running in the background will be able to use system calls to provide multitasking services, avoiding the performance ...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:43:16 am
Newsmax columnist and wingnut blogger Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is losing her marbles today over being contacted by census workers, calling them “Census Stalkers.” For the past month I have been called, harassed and visited by a Pamela Childs of the Census Bureau, who was pursuing me for an interview. ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:06:34 am
Yesterday in Texas, the State Board of Education, packed with Republican creationists and “social conservatives” by Governor Rick Perry, voted to take Texas schoolchildren back into the Dark Ages. Kids in Texas public schools will no longer be taught about one of the greatest political philosophers in American history, Thomas Jefferson. ...

Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:08:47 pm
The right wing blogosphere is getting weirder and weirder: Crazytown Watch: Charles Johnson Conflates Some Fringe Group With Rick Perry. Once again, I’m accused of being “crazy” because I find groups like Repent Amarillo disturbing. But not just “crazy” — I’m also sneaky and evil because I’m “conflating” Repent Amarillo with ...