Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:07:03 am
Note to the religious fanatics who decided it would be a good idea to respond to my post about extremist GOP anti-abortion positions by emailing me several photos of dead babies, with notes telling me that you're praying for me -- if you think this kind of tactic is going ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:14:13 am
The latest really bad idea to move from the fringe to the Republican mainstream at light speed: repealing the "birthright citizenship" granted by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution. That's right -- the people who publicly make a fetish out of the Constitution, declaring their unconditional love for every word ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:49:52 am
If you thought the recent right wing push to repeal part of the US Constitution’s 14th amendment and take away automatic birthright citizenship was just a wacky idea from the Rand Paul fringe, think again. Lindsey Graham eyes ‘birthright citizenship’. And in his statement on Fox News (where else?), Graham resorted ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:19:57 am
A new study from the US National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration shows that climate change is ‘undeniable’ — but does anyone really believe that will silence the deniers? The NOAA study drew on up to 11 different indicators of climate, and found that each one pointed to a world that ...

Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24:38 pm
The latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week video from environmentalist Peter Sinclair comes in two parts. [Video] [Video]

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:21:25 pm
Here’s an email of a type I don’t get to feature too often; not a rant full of creepy insults or a smug gloat over some imagined right wing victory, but an actual email of support. Shocking, I know. I’ll admit that I veered away from LGF when the ...

Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:19:09 pm
James Edwards, host of the repellent white supremacist radio show called “The Political Cesspool,” is irritated at all this denial coming from Tea Partiers. He says they should stop being such wusses and embrace their inner racists. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:14:32 pm
The LA Times’s Jim Rainey has pretty much the same take on the Shirley Sherrod affair as I do — there’s a villain in this little play, and his name is Andrew Breitbart. Certain media outlets have played the story and the political ramifications for the Obama administration (and there ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:01:23 pm
The must-read for the day: The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod’s Dad. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:47:26 pm
The dim bulbs of the right wing blogosphere are working hard to throw up (and I mean that literally) a thick coating of BS as cover for Andrew Breitbart. It’s a perfect storm of willful denial, and totally expected. Earlier we took note of hateblogger Jim Hoft, who didn’t even slow ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:46:02 pm
While everyone has been focused on Shirley Sherrod and Sarah Palin’s self-refudiation (including me), the proposed energy bill that included a cap on carbon emissions was abandoned by Senate Democrats. Without some Republican support, the Democrats could not prevent a GOP filibuster. Andrew Revkin says some of the blame for the ...

Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:25:47 pm
Arizona Republican Sheriff Paul Babeu is a frequent guest on Fox News, vigorously defending Arizona’s new immigration law on at least 18 occasions. And last July 10th, Sheriff Babeu appeared on a radio show that openly and proudly promotes white supremacism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial and other extreme right wing causes — ...

Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:53:23 pm
Here’s a creative and entertaining post on Ending the Climate War by Toronto artist Franke James. James’s artful post refers to this book, which I’ve just purchased for my Kindle: The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth.

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:46:11 pm
Here’s Part 2 of environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s look at the national security implications of runaway climate change, featuring interviews with top US military commanders and others. [Video]

Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:39:40 pm
Tonight’s image from the Lizard Collection is the R. Crumb classic Motor City Comics, the first printing of issue #1, published in April 1969, featuring Boingy Baxter (a gangster with springs in his shoes) and the devastating Lenore Goldberg and Her Girl Commandos. This book is an R. Crumb creation ...

Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:27:30 am
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle says she’s not going to have a political makeover. Republican Sharron Angle said Saturday she won’t change her staunch conservative views to win the U.S. Senate race, although she acknowledged softening some of her rhetoric to avoid giving Sen. Harry Reid and other Democrats ...

Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:02:21 pm
Marc Cooper ruefully tells the tale, the tale of a fateful trip: Pajamas Media Drops Trou. And speaking of Pajamas Media and environmentalism (in the early days of PJM we discussed ways to make science and environmentalism more attractive to conservatives — a goal obviously long forgotten), this is the kind ...

Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:33:53 pm
By now it’s clear that the media, the public, and right wing politicians were taken in, punk’d if you will, by the thoroughly dishonest hoax known as “Climategate.” Today another investigation by a British panel cleared the climate scientists of the CRU. “On the specific allegations made against the behavior ...

Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:12:37 pm
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video looks at the national security implications of runaway climate change. [Video]

Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:21:21 pm
Back at the end of March I posted a photo of the cover of Spider-Man #40 from the Lizard Collection, with a short synopsis of the story line and a note that the comic book was on the way to the CGC to be graded for quality. Well, here’s that ...

Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:50:35 pm
Michael Mann, one of the climate scientists outrageously smeared in the year’s most bogus scandal (“Climategate” - ugh) and also known as one of the main researchers behind the “hockey stick” global warming graph, has now been completely cleared of “scientific misconduct,” in an exhaustive two-part investigation by Penn State. ...

Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:19:13 pm
Far right evangelist Lou Engle (last featured at LGF for supporting the criminalization of homosexuality, and saying there’s a Biblical basis for executing gays) is whining and seething about the Supreme Court decision that Christian groups on public campuses must allow the dreaded ghey amongst their pious gatherings. Engle thinks this ...

Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:25:31 pm
One of the most personally disturbing and saddening aspects of the ongoing right wing meltdown for me has been the utter disintegration of Pajamas Media, which started with the idea of being a non-partisan blog-based news source, but has now completed its transformation into one of the most insane wingnut ...

Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:34:58 pm
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video deals with the now thoroughly debunked and discredited “Climategate” nontroversy, the threats and intimidation directed against climate scientists, and the connections between climate change deniers and the worst elements of the far right — including the neo-Nazis at Stormfront (Google cache link). [Video] The “Climategate” idiocy confirms ...

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:37:48 pm
Lunatic Rand Paul announced today that he wants to change the US Constitution to take away the right to automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. Rand Paul is a big believer in the US Constitution. Except those parts of it that have to do with civil rights and ...