Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:40:24 am
Sometimes I wake up, have some coffee, load up Tweetdeck to check Twitter, and discover that all the wingnuts are chattering excitedly about a crushing new post by someone that really puts me in my place, smacks me down, and destroys the last shreds of my credibility. Seems to happen ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:39:39 pm
Sarah Palin woke up today in a refudiatin' mood, fired up her Blackberry, and attacked the Obama administration for sending a "Happy B'day" wish to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a couple of outrageously outraged Twitter posts: Americans awaken 2 bizarre natl security thinking of Obama Admn: Ahmadinejad b'day greeting ...

Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:14:19 am
Some really good news for a change, from the US automobile industry: Washington - General Motors Co will announce this afternoon that it is buying back all of the Treasury Department's $2.1 billion in preferred stock, people briefed on the matter said. The move is another step by the Detroit automaker ...

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 ...

Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:14:05 pm
A video from another angle has been released from the Rand Paul rally in Kentucky, showing MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle trying to approach Paul several times. Here it is: [Video] Does this change the perception of the incident? In one way, it does; it makes it understandable that people tried to ...

Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:18:04 pm
Tonight at RedState.com: And Even STILL I Am Not Allowed To Make A Racial Slur About Our President? After THIS? AYFKM!?!?!? In the new post-racial America, brought to us by Barack “don’t call me black or white, just call me American” Obama, we have been told our differences are behind ...

Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:12:03 am
The latest Newsweek poll shows that President Obama's approval rating has jumped. The poll finds that 48 percent of registered voters would be more likely to vote for Democrats, compared with 42 percent who lean Republican (those numbers are similar to those in the last NEWSWEEK Poll, which found Democrats ...

Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:28:50 pm
The New York Times' John M. Broder points out that climate change "doubt" (it's actually categorical denial) is a Tea Party article of faith. It's true, of course, but it's only one ingredient in the potpourri of bad craziness that is the Tea Party. At bottom, climate change denialism is part ...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:52:09 am
As if to illustrate my point that every single GOP candidate in this election is a denier of global warming, even Philadelphia's Pat Toomey (considered one of the few remaining moderate Republicans) is toeing the anti-science line. [Video] My view is: I think the data is pretty clear. There has been ...

Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:14:29 pm
Here's a piece at National Journal by Ron Brownstein on an issue I've been hammering quite a bit recently -- the appalling universal rejection of mainstream climate science by the Republican Party's top politicians, in an election dominated and driven by far right Tea Party wackos: GOP Gives Climate Science ...

Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:46:24 am
In the GOP war against climate science, the latest tactic is to launch "investigations" of their real enemies: the scientists themselves. It's a pretty obvious political calculation; since they can't argue with the scientific facts (not honestly, anyway) they're trying to discredit the researchers personally. One of the most aggressive attackers ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57:53 am
Matt Taibbi's piece on the Tea Party does an excellent job of documenting the real forces behind this far right populist movement -- corporate interests and Republican insiders: Tea & Crackers. Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as "socialized ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:03:34 pm
Running for the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat in West Virginia, GOP nominee John Raese is yet another anti-science far right Republican candidate, spouting pseudo-scientific gobbledegook about volcanoes to argue that he has "zero trust" in human-caused global warming. Even as he joked that the tea party movement was "a ...

Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:59:28 pm
I had to laugh at this CBS News headline about the GOP's new "Pledge to America" (hmm, sounds vaguely reminiscent of something): Are Social Conservatives Losing Their Voice in the GOP? I laughed because to me, the absence of a lot of social conservative language in this document looks like a ...

Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:44:40 am
There was a time when openly associating with the cranks, racists, and conspiracy freakazoids of the John Birch Society would have spelled instant disaster for a politician's career. But in today's climate of right wing extremism, the John Birch Society has not only been re-legitimized, it's been welcomed back into the ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:36:22 pm
If you're disappointed that psycho preacher Terry Jones called off "International Burn a Quran Day," no worries! Because the evil freaks of the Westboro Baptist cult are ready to carry the torch. Westboro Baptist Church, the small Topeka, Kan., church that pickets funerals of American soldiers to spread its message ...

Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:59:22 am
So, without telling anybody, Twitter suddenly changed their remote login system to use OAuth instead of Basic Authentication, and my code to do Twitter updates automatically when I post to LGF stopped working. What? They did tell everyone, repeatedly, that they were going to change it? Oh. OK, my bad. Anyway, the ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:40:06 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with: Charge: Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, calls victim a terrorist. A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a ...

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:24:41 pm
These days if I bother to read one of Tim Blair's phoned-in attack pieces, I increasingly get the feeling that he thinks his readers are complete idiots. His style has been reduced to tossing out distorted accusations in one-line sentences, then sitting back and letting his readers respond with the ...

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:17:33 am
Michael Enright, the 21-year old accused of stabbing a Muslim cabdriver in a hate crime, kept a journal filled with anti-Muslim writings: Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif, victim in bloody attack, saw 'so much hate' in face of assailant. Enright, a senior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:03:26 pm
Former Bush campaign manager and chairman of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman, who helped promote many GOP anti-gay rights initiatives, is out of the closet. Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:29:44 pm
There are signs that some right wing climate change deniers are finally waking up. Science editor of the Daily Mail, Michael Hanlon, announced last week that he is changing his stance on global warming due to recent events in Greenland and his trip to this country (which he now refers ...

Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:50:46 am
The Washington Post has an article today on the outbreak of paranoia and anti-Muslim bad craziness on the hallowed ground of Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run into vehement opposition. In Tennessee, three plans for new Islamic centers in the Nashville area -- one of ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:23:50 pm
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Denial Crock of the Week deals with the often-repeated canard that since CO2 is good for plants, more CO2 must be even better for plants. [Video]

Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:13:14 pm
The unique rock/jazz band Reign of Kindo has a new album out, and it's freaking excellent. You should buy it because you will like it. You will like it. You should buy it. Like. Buy. Hope. Change. (I'm trying out that neurolinguistic programming stuff from the previous post.) All kidding aside, ...