Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:52:18 am
Ted Nugent, the right wing rock musician with overt white supremacist leanings, is being disgusting again on Facebook. Yesterday he posted a YouTube video featuring an edited clip from a presidential debate showing Bernie Sanders murdering Hillary Clinton with a handgun, with the caption: "I got your guncontrol right here ...

Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:05:45 pm
Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com For some reason that's a total mystery, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and racists of all stripes seem to be attracted to the Donald Trump campaign. Trump himself has retweeted white supremacists dozens of times now; and his campaign gave press credentials to a notorious white supremacist. Breitbart "News" is crowing ...

Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:45:27 pm
Here they go again. Following a thinly-sourced report at Gizmodo that Facebook "suppresses" conservative news sites by preventing them from showing up in the Trending News section, the entire right wing universe launched into an orgy of whiny victimhood because they knew this was happening they just knew it! The ...

Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:19:40 am
Well now, this certainly seems like an issue that people ought to pay attention to; the Associated Press has a report on a new study released today by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Urban Institute Health Policy Center, showing that Bernie Sanders' economic plans would increase the federal ...

Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:16:02 pm
Image via Shutterstock We have some new code that tries to prevent fake news sites from being promoted at LGF. If someone posts a link to a fake news site (like abcnews​.com​.co) in a comment, when you click on it you’ll see a warning message that it’s a fake news site. ...

Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:48:46 pm
Well, here's a bit of news that really did surprise me today; on NPR's show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! conservative writer PJ O'Rourke actually said he's going to vote for Hillary Clinton. I hope you were sitting down when you read that, because it's true. Here's the audio. The section in ...

Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:53:08 am
The sycophantic relationship of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough with Donald Trump is a long-running joke by now; in his speech to the White House Correspondents' Dinner Larry Wilmore cracked, “Morning Joe has their head so far up Donald Trump’s ass they bumped into Chris Christie.” Well, it looks like that cozy, mutually ...

Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:15:57 pm
It's not often that you see Rachel Maddow as chastened as she was last night. She ran down the long history of kooks, cranks, dingbats, racists and shitheels that have run for president, and found a little traction with the paranoid-freakazoid fringe. And then she came to the fact that ...

Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:57:11 am
Northfoto / Shutterstock.com The Rolling Stones have asked Donald Trump to stop using their music at his campaign events, because like other musicians such as Neil Young, Adele and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, they don't want to be associated with this raving xenophobic bigot. But Trump says he's not going to stop, because ...

Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:09:30 pm
Sure, Ted Cruz just called him a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer" who boasts about his venereal diseases, but Donald Trump says tonight he might make Cruz his running mate. And Cruz would accept, of course, ...

Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:20:30 am
Credit: Gage Skidmore He was hopelessly outgunned from the start, posing as a "moderate Republican" (he isn't; he's as extreme as Ted Cruz on social issues), and now the last obstacle to the Trumpenstein's domination of the right wing universe is gone. John Kasich is dropping his presidential bid, according to ...

Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:13:37 pm
YouTube Just another crazy moment out of many in this Republican campaign, but also a perfect metaphor for a political party that just chose an openly misogynistic candidate for president of the United States. That's gonna leave a mark.

Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:40:38 pm
Credit: Gage Skidmore As I write this, Ted Cruz has been gassing on and on at his concession speech in Indiana, but he's toast. Donald Trump crushed him tonight, again. And this is the end of his campaign. So the theocratic GOP candidate is done. Thank the flying spaghetti monster. The Trumpenstein ...

Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:43:37 pm
Is it just theater or is Donald Trump really this deranged? It's at the point now where it's impossible to tell any more: Trump accuses Cruz's father of helping JFK's assassin. “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole ...

Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:59:28 pm
YouTube Classical music isn't dead, and it doesn't even smell funny. It smells great when it's played by eighth blackbird. May 2, 2016 by TOM HUIZENGA • The Chicago new-music ensemble eighth blackbird is on a roll. Just after winning its fourth Grammy in February, the group received a MacArthur Award ...

Sun, May 1, 2016 at 4:16:03 pm
Image via Shutterstock Quietly, behind the scenes, hidden from the eyes of an unsuspecting world, I've been writing code to allow our users to easily embed images in comments or LGF Pages from an assortment of image-hosting sites, such as Flickr, Instagram, Imgur and Giphy. We've had Instagram embedding for a little ...

Sun, May 1, 2016 at 11:48:41 am
In his speech to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Larry Wilmore pushed the envelope hard; George Carlin would have been proud of him. Wilmore closed by saying, "Yo Barry -- you did it, my nigga." And of course, that was all it took to send conservatives across the Internet into paroxysms ...

Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:25:37 pm
Anti-choice fraudster David Daleiden and co-conspirator Sandra Merritt have both now officially rejected plea deals that would have let them avoid possible prison sentences. HOUSTON (AP) — Two anti-abortion activists indicted in connection with making undercover Planned Parenthood videos are rejecting plea deals offering them probation. Sandra Merritt's attorneys said Friday ...

Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:04:36 pm
Image via Shutterstock Here's a perfect example of the right wing caveman mentality Donald Trump is ruthlessly exploiting, as a highly placed Florida Republican says when Hillary Clinton debates Trump, "she’s going to go down like Monica Lewinsky." Hurr durr. Good one, Bob. Bob Sutton, chairman of the Broward County GOP Executive ...

Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:32:20 pm
Believe it or not, there's actually somebody establishment Republicans loathe more than Donald Trump: that other guy running for president. Former House Speaker John Boehner is unloading on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, calling him "Lucifer in the flesh." "I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a ...

Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:21:37 pm
VERONA, N.Y. -- Tactical law enforcement officers from across the region will gather at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino next week to view the latest law enforcement equipment and receive training, but the expo's keynote speaker has drawn criticism from groups advocating against Islamophobia and bigotry. The keynote speaker ...

Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:19:12 pm
Here's a thread for our commenting community to keep track of the incoming election results from the primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. We know already that Hillary Clinton has won the Maryland primary, awarding her 38 more delegates and bringing her closer to the goal of 2,383. Donald ...

Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:53:55 pm
Last night, Bernie Sanders supporters all over the Internet -- Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. -- went on a conspiracy theory binge because several pro-Sanders Facebook pages had been shut down. And of course the target of these conspiracy theories was, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton. Is there nothing this diabolical ...

Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:22:14 pm
Tim Robbins is a gifted actor who's been in some great films that I'll always enjoy. "The Shawshank Redemption." "The Hudsucker Proxy." But his advocacy for Bernie Sanders entered some really unhinged territory today, promoting the idea that Hillary Clinton is somehow stealing the election by taking advantage of -- or ...

Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:30:00 am
lev radin / Shutterstock.com Donald Trump has been openly encouraging his delusional right wing followers to get violent against protesters, and hinting broadly about "riots" at the upcoming GOP convention, so this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone: Delegates face death threats from Trump supporters. First it was an email warning ...