Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:46:01 pm
YouTube To follow President Obama's State of the Union speech, here's an amazing performance by Mariachi Flor de Toloache, live in the NPR's Tiny Desk studio, tearin' it up. January 8, 2016 by FELIX CONTRERAS Mariachi Flor de Toloache's 2014 self-titled debut album earned a Latin Grammy nomination in the Best Ranchera ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 5:33:46 pm
YouTube I'm treating this last State of the Union just like my first - because I'm still just as hungry. I hope you tune in, because it's for you. — President Obama (@POTUS) January 13, 2016 The speech doesn't start until 9 pm Eastern, but they're leading up to it with some ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:24:57 pm
Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Some people are referring to the debate about Ted Cruz's eligibility as "Cruz birtherism," and there's no doubt that the most visible person advancing the argument is Donald Trump -- a notorious Birther who built his right wing base by pandering to the conspiracy theorists who believe ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:13:16 am
Anti-gay hate group Family Research Council will be represented at tonight's State of the Union address, of course, because Republicans continue to fight like demons to legalize bigotry; and they're inviting their new superstar to attend: Kim Davis to attend State of the Union. The Kentucky clerk briefly jailed last ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:16:10 pm
The most idiotic news from Twitter this week concerns malevolent self-hating weirdo Milo Yiannopoulos and the calamity that befell him recently. You see, the Gamergate-exploiting Breitbrat has been behaving badly on Twitter, harassing women and engaging in what Twitter calls "targeted abuse," and on Friday last week, Twitter's safety and security ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:44:46 pm
Donald Trump, the leading candidate for president in the GOP field, denies that he's a racist, denies that he's a bigot, denies that he's a woman-hating misogynist. And yet, he tweets blatantly racist fake statistics from neo-Nazis and ugly comments like this: .@megynkelly recently said that she can’t be wooed by ...

Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:19:33 pm
Vimeo Here's a great piece from the Manchester, England, jazz group Gogo Penguin, with an intriguing video that matches the drum track beautifully. Music video for the track All Res by Gogo Penguin taken from the album Man Made Object, released on Blue Note 5th February 2016. http://gogopenguin.co.uk/ Direc tor - Antony Barkworth-Knight Director of ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:01:22 pm
Via JJ MacNab, here's the latest shopping list from the chowderheads who've "occupied" Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Sanctuary on orders from God. My favorite item on the list is outlined in red, but why would they want both Miracle Whip and mayonnaise? Are they going to put that Miracle Whip on their ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:16:08 pm
A few days ago, Pamela Geller posted yet another hate-mongering anti-Muslim piece about Oslo, Norway, titled: Norway: Oslo Police — “We Have Lost the City”. Her post is sourced to a very sketchy European website called "Poqari News," and contains quotes like this: The article below is about the apocalyptic level ...

Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:27:33 am
Credit: The Oregonian/OregonLive.com It seems clownish enough on its surface, but remember that these loons are heavily armed; all it takes is one idiot to pull a gun and things could get nasty: At Bundy encampment, outsider says militants 'attacked' his group. Lewis Arthur, who leads a group called Veterans on ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:55:28 pm
a katz / Shutterstock.com In 2016, the lines between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are being drawn very clearly; on the Republican side we have a slate of candidates who are completely in thrall to the religious right, and are willing to promote outright lies about women's health to ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:26:51 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com SoundCloud After more than 8 years of right wing Birther insanity, it's difficult to express my sense of absolute poetic justice to see conservatives beginning to rip one of their own leading presidential candidates to shreds over the very same stupid issue. And now John McCain is joining ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:33:00 pm
With more than a half million signatures, a petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom will now be debated in the House of Commons on January 18th: Block Donald J Trump from UK entry - Petitions. (h/t: @scarycath.)

Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:59:20 pm
Last May we exposed Chuck C. "Rage Furby" Johnson's apparent plan to monetize his obsession with rape, pointing out that the Rage Furby had registered the domain names FakeRapeRegistry.com and RapeFraud.com while he was in the midst of using Twitter to attack several women who reported being sexually assaulted. Chuck ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:27:55 am
Amanda Peacher/OPB SoundCloud Following up on last night's report from the Guardian that officials were planning to cut off power to the domestic terrorists who've taken over the headquarters of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Sheriff David Ward of Harney County said today that power has not been cut off at this point. But ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:57:34 pm
Right wing blogs are spreading another outright falsehood, claiming that the al-Shabaab terrorist recruitment video that featured a clip of Donald Trump also had Hillary Clinton in it. I’ve finished watching the entire video now and Donald Trump is definitely in it, as an example of “America’s hatred of Muslims,” but ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:16:39 pm
From reporter Amanda Peacher, here's a photo of the "supply room" at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. At least these scary armed militants didn't forget the beer -- a lovely Mirror Pond Pale Ale with a tawny color and delicious hop-forward aroma. And is that a Karaoke machine? But if they're really ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:16:31 am
What is brainwashing? Margaret Singer defined it as “providing members with information about the cult and showing them how their own decision-making power had been taken away from them.” Have you watched a friend or loved one go down the rabbit hole of right-wing delusion, paranoia and hatred? Likely, you ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:41:56 am
This photo from the standoff with those hapless sovereign citizen morons in Oregon demonstrates the perils of home schooling, as they manage to misspell two words on one sign -- even though the other sign shows the definition and correct spelling of one of the words. Nice font, though. These ...

Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:13:05 pm
Image via Shutterstock It's been a while since I posted the source code for our LGF Pages bookmarklet, and it's actually undergone some major changes recently, so let's remedy that omission right now, shall we? The biggest change: all of the code has been rewritten to use native Javascript, doing away with ...

Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:59:03 am
The far right loons who took over the headquarters of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are now in their second day of "occupation," and oddly enough there isn't a single post about it yet at Breitbart "News." When they delay writing about something that's so obviously appealing to the right ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 4:41:35 pm
Here they go again, folks! With the news that terror group al-Shabaab has released a recruitment video featuring Donald Trump's statements calling for the banning of Muslims from the US, the right wing media are completely losing their shit. For example, wingnut genius Jim Hoft (aka the Stupidest Man On The ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:12:33 pm
Image via Shutterstock 1The most popular user-submitted LGF Page of the year was this tale of poetic justice: Elephant Hunter Crushed to Death by Baby Elephant. 2Number 2 on our list was this massively fun video: Teacher And His Students Recreate 'Uptown Funk'. 3The number 3 slot goes to a report from the ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:46:18 am
Terrorist group al-Shabab is now using Donald Trump's anti-Muslim bigotry as a recruiting tool, exactly as Hillary Clinton stated. Terror group al-Shabab, al-Qaeda's Somalia-based affiliate, is using a clip from Donald Trump in a purported Islamist propaganda video -- and it's gaining traction among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 1:56:28 pm
Image via Shutterstock 1With more pageviews and social media shares than any other article this year, our exposé on the neo-Nazi origin of Donald Trump's now-infamous bogus graphic on "black crime" was far and away our most popular post of the year: We Found Where Donald Trump's "Black Crimes" Graphic Came ...